I think people don't realize the extent of the collapse of morality and social norms during the occupation, how quickly pure evil: murders, robbery, extortions, bribery, preying on the defenseless became the new normal.
It was the key difference between Poland and other countries, because the occupation of Poland was like no other. At that point political convictions, philo-semitism or anti-semitism made little difference.
Two examples from the Ghetto:
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto by Emanuel Ringelblum
the lice are omnipresent. They literally fly through the air, and it is almost impossible to avoid them. The so-called "disinfection columns sent out by the Jewish Council health office actually spread lice. The same is true of the health-department doctors, who are fearfully corrupt. The "disinfection columns" extort money from the rich, whom they exempt from disinfection. The doctors cooperate. The disinfection steam bath organizations sell bath certificates, so that those who need to be disinfected buy the certificates and do not bathe. The sulphur used in the disinfection is so weak that the lice survive, so that the whole anti-epidemic operation is, in fact, a swindle, perpetrated chiefly by the doctors and the sanitation columns.
The Jewish Council's work department is not only corrupt, it is completely indolent as well. Every little thing (a special registration, for instance) seems to require superhuman effort on the part of everyone concerned. To get a medical examination you have to spend some two or three days waiting from five in the morning - of course, you can go into the examination room by a side entrance for 5-10 zlotys. Nothing was anticipated. Complete anarchy and dry rot.
Because of all this, the beads of the Council's work department lost their beads, and, unable to control the situation, took to kidnaping people. The first day - the 19th of April - was horrible.
It earned the Jewish police the honorary title of "gangsters," the name that was flung at them hundreds of times during meetings that the House Committees held to discuss the subject.
Instead of searching for those who were hiding out the nights of the 19th and 20th of April, the Jewish and Polish police took over complete houses and demanded to be paid off.
One policeman is said to have made 5,000 zlotys that first night. They forced their way into the apartments of people over forty, of people who were sick, and insisted on being paid off. Of course, the only people taken for work were those who couldn't buy their way out, or those who bad been exempted previously as being sick, or as the only breadwinner in the family.
