Date: Jul. 15th, 2008 08:09 pm (UTC)
Yes, Poland (like most eastern European countries) had a high degree of antisemitisim prior to WWII, but I don't think that automatically equates to "complicity" so much as to complacency. And I think complacency is the default human response to anything that does not directly affect one's self or one's closest family members at the moment.

The problem with tours such as this one is that they seem to be perpetuating feelings of hatred rather than helping people get past them: as you pointed out, quite a few of the people on the tour ended up hating Poland. But Poland was not responsible for building or running the camps. (BTW, I don't really blame the German people as a whole, either. I don't believe in collective guilt.)
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