<P> The collaboration by some Polish Jews, who belonged to Żagiew and Group 13 inflicted considerable damage to both Jewish and Polish underground movements, as members of the collaborationist groups acted as informants for the Germans, revealing the organized efforts by the resistance to hide Jews, and engaged in racketeering, blackmail and extortions inside the Warsaw Ghetto . </P> <P> Also, the Jewish Ghetto Police was recruited from among Polish Jews living inside the ghettos who could be relied upon to follow German orders . Members of Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst were issued batons, identifying armband, hats and badges, they were used by the Germans primarily for securing the deportation of other Jews to concentration camps, but their work encompassed all forms of public order in the Ghetto . The Polish - Jewish historian and Warsaw Ghetto archivist Emanuel Ringelblum described the cruelty of the ghetto police as "at times greater than that of the Germans ." The size of each police outfit inside a ghetto varied greatly, with the Warsaw Ghetto having about 2,500 active members, Łódź Ghetto 1,200 and smaller ghettos like that in the city of Lwów had around 500 Jewish policeman . </P> <P> One partisan unit of Polish right - wing National Armed Forces, the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade, decided to tacitly cooperate with the Germans in late 1944 . It ceased hostile actions against the Germans for a few months, accepted logistic help and withdrew from Poland into Czechoslovakia with German approval in late stages of the war in order to avoid capture by the Soviets . Once in Czechoslovakia, the unit resumed hostilities against the Germans and on May 5 liberated the concentration camp at Holýšov . </P> <P> In 1944 Germans clandestinely armed a few regional Armia Krajowa (AK) units operating in the area of Vilnius in order to encourage them to act against the Soviet partisans in the region; in Nowogrodek district and to a lesser degree in Vilnius district (AK turned these weapons against the Nazis during Operation Ostra Brama). Such arrangements were purely tactical and did not evidence the type of ideological collaboration as shown by Vichy regime in France or Quisling regime in Norway . The Poles main motivation was to gain intelligence on German morale and preparedness and to acquire much needed equipment . There are no known joint Polish - German actions, and the Germans were unsuccessful in their attempt to turn the Poles toward fighting exclusively against Soviet partisans . Further, most of such collaboration of local commanders with the Germans was condemned by AK headquarters . Tadeusz Piotrowski quotes Joseph Rothschild saying "The Polish Home Army was by and large untainted by collaboration" and adds that "the honor of AK as a whole is beyond reproach". </P>

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