"Yes, the murder of 1.5 million Christian Polish citizens was horrible--but how many Polish CHRISTIANS were left alive in Poland, compared to the number of Jews left after 3 million were murdered?" Michael, you've made a good point. At Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Pope Benedict addressed the crowd of 900,000 Polish citizens with the question: "Where was God in those days? Why was He silent?" A more appropriate question would have been: "Where was THE VATICAN in those days? Why was POPE PIUS XII silent?" Anti Semitism was rampant in the Vatican. Evidence in the Vatican's secret archives convincingly demonstrates how the demonization of Jews by the Catholic Church (particularly severe in the 19th & 20th centuries), laid the groundwork for the Holocaust in Europe. (Perhaps a "disclaimer" declaring those incriminating Vatican secret archives to be "works of fiction" would save-face, wipe the slate clean, and miraculously whisk their SHAMEFUL SINS away?) Hitler's Nazi regime secured the Vatican's Papal power, property and wealth. In return, the Catholic Church taught obedience to Hitler. Albert Einstein said: "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the evil people, but because of the good people who won't do anything about it." What must a religion of love and goodness do to confront its history of hatred and harm? Would not The Pope's ADMISSION OF, and APOLOGY FOR, the Vatican's role in those atrocities have made his sincere, sympathetic speech seem less superficial? You can't change what you WON'T acknowledge! We must learn to love, protect, and respect each other, no matter what our differences! We must NOT allow our religious convictions to cloud our common sense. Stay safe, healthy and happy, Love, Loretta

according to the Jewish institute Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Polish catholics (the ones you would like to wipe out) were 40% out of all people who saved Jews during ww2. Poland was the only country in europe occupied by Germany where punishment for helping Jews was death, not only for the helping person but also for his/her whole family, and sometimes even for the whole neighbourhood or village. Polish resistance was the only one in whole europe occupied by Germany where the resistance (AK) has created a separate special group whose sole mission and responsability was to save Jews. And yes, Poland was the only country in Europe occupied by germany which has never formed any collaborating organisation or governement. The casualties of Poland in ww2 were sth about 7.5 mln people, 4.5 were Polish catholics (3mln killed by germans, 1.5mln killed by russians), 2.8 mln were jews (killed by germans and small groups of ukrainians from UPA) and 0.7 were of other religions. The number of 7.5 mln was forbidden to be publicly spoken of during the communist era since accusing russians of anything was forbidden, hence the false number of 6mln. The western historians repeated the 6mln number since they were not interested in angering russia who they love so much. If Polish antisemitsm during ww2 would be at least as high as 10% of hatred of Poland in Israel and America today, the population of Israel would be 100 times smaller.