 However, the Nazi terror combined with inadequacy of food rations, as well as German greed, along with the system of corruption as the only "one language the Germans understood well," wrecked traditional values.Poles helping Jews faced unparalleled dangers not only from the German occupiers but also from their own ethnically diverse countrymen including Polish-German "Volksdeutsche", and Polish Ukrainians, many of whom were anti-Semitic and morally disoriented by the war.There were people, the so-called szmalcownicy ("shmalts people" from "shmalts" or "szmalec", slang term for money), who blackmailed the hiding Jews and Poles helping them, or who turned the Jews to the Germans for a reward.