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The collaboration of some Jews with the Germans was all the more shocking and shameful because of it
social character of its participants. Unlike Poles, among whom z
Generally, it was mainly people from the margins of society, the dregs, among others, who agreed to collaborate with the Germans
A large part of the elites from the so-called Judenrats (Jewish councils). With sharp
The most famous Jewish thinker of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, condemned this collaboration
in the book Eichmann in Jerusalem” She wrote there, among others: “For Jews, the role of leaders
the Jewish role in the annihilation of their own nation is undoubtedly the darkest chapter
all history.” The submission of the Judenrats to the Nazis meant extreme disgrace to the Jews
elites in the countries occupied by the Third Reich. Arend stated directly: “As long as the members
Quisling-type governments usually came from opposition parties and were members of councils
Jewish leaders were usually well-respected local Jewish leaders who were targeted by the Nazis
“They were given enormous power until they too were deported.”