Originally Posted by rubber soul

Yeah, it's an unnecessary law. As far as Polish complicity goes, you may want to read the graphic novel, Maus, by Art Speigelman. It is about how his family dealt with the holocaust in Poland and you can see how some Poles were complicit, not out of evil (though there was some anti-Semitism as well), but basically for their own survival. It had to have been a living nightmare then.