Betrayals of Jews By Poles Bogus As Quoted Kubalski

Niemcy W Krakowie: Dziennik 1.IX.1939-18.I.1945, by Edward Kubalski.

Has a Diary Entry Misused by Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer, in JUDENJAGD, To Demonize Endeks and To Falsely Accuse Poles of Denouncing Fugitive Jews

Edward Kubalski was a long-term secretary to the Krakow magistrate. During WWII, the author had an amazing amount of insight into developments not only in Krakow, but also in the world at large. He correctly foresaw, already in September 1939, days after the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland, that the western allies would likely not recognize the Kresy as rightfully part of Poland. (p. 31).

GERMAN CULTURAL GENOCIDE AGAINST POLES

The reader learns detailed specifics on the ongoing German confiscation and destruction of Krakow’s cultural treasures. (See especially p. 185). Kubalski also cites figures on the scale of the German terror that had befallen the Poles. Through the end of 1942, 6.5 million Poles had variously been murdered, incarcerated, deported, or kidnapped for forced labor. (p. 257). Polish food rations for various feedstuffs, elaborated numerically by Kubalski, were a fraction of the food rations for Germans. (pp. 149-150). He also alludes to the starvation genocide of Russian POWs in German captivity. (p. 179).

HIGH-LEVEL UKRAINIAN COLLABORATION WITH THE NAZIS

Kubalski discusses Ukrainian-Nazi collaboration. He characterizes Volodymyr Kubiyovych (Wlodzimierz Kubijowicz) as a vicious Polonophobe. (p. 93, 189). He also discusses the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles when it was at its height (July 1943) (p. 287).

THE DEMONIZATION OF THE AUTHOR JUST BECAUSE HE WAS AN ENDEK

Editors Jan Grabowski and Zbigniew R. Grabowski describe Kubalski as an Endek who disliked Jews, and who only belatedly came to be sympathetic to them in the light of the unfolding Holocaust. (p. 12). However, Kubalski hardly ever refers to Jews at all in his huge diary, and the two (2!) negative statements refer to opined excessive Jewish status. The editors have taken the two statements out of context. (See p. 12). Thus, the January 12, 1940 statement, when read in its entirety (p. 47), refers to the degree of representation of Poland’s minorities in the Polish Government in Exile in London. Likewise, the May 1, 1940 statement suggests that Jews, unlike Ruthenians (Ukrainians), were claiming an excessive share of Red Cross provisions. (p. 64). By themselves, they do not indicate a blanket antipathy towards Jews, at least not necessarily.

As for the Holocaust-related statement, Kubalski, in his June 6, 1942 entry, harshly condemns the Germans for their barbarous cruelties against Jews. (p. 215). [This adds to the refutation of the canard that Endeks supported, or at least admired, the Nazi German extermination of the Jews.]

In addition to all this, Kubalski repudiates Nazi propaganda about Jews, notably the one that characterizes Jews as all-powerful and malevolent. For instance, the April 3, 1944 entry dismisses the Nazi propaganda that portrays Roosevelt as part of the brood of the Jews. (p. 321).

THE POLICJA GRANATOWA WAS NOT FREE TO REFUSE GERMAN ORDERS AGAINST POLES ANY MORE THAN IT WAS FREE TO DO SO AGAINST JEWS!

On another subject, the author was eyewitness to a September 22, 1943, massive LAPANKA (“catching” of Poles), off the streets of Krakow, by the Germans, in this case ostensibly for forced labor. The Polish Blue Police (POLICJA GRANATOWA) took part alongside the Germans. (p. 298). [This reminds the reader that the Germans forced this police to take part in operations in Poles, and not only against Jews as described in Grabowski’s JUDENJAGT, THE HUNT FOR THE JEWS.]

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THE MISUSED DIARY ENTRY ABOUT POLISH DENUNCIATIONS (May 23, 1941):

By way of introduction, I translate this entry, found on page 134. It is as follows: “The court system in Krakow is functioning in a relatively normal manner. The civilian courts have little to do, because the dreaded WOHNUNGSAMT handles the most important housing matters. As for the penal ones, they are, in the main, experiencing mutual denunciations, in the towns and in the villages—and later investigations of slander. These denunciations are so common that even the German governors are turning to the priests about the need to educate the people. Human hatred and wickedness knows no bounds!”

However, Kubalski does not indicate how he got this information. Is it something that somebody told him (hearsay)? No specific German official is quoted, and no German document is cited that could be traced. Clearly, the veracity of Kubalski’s assertion cannot be verified.

Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that the information is valid. Neo-Stalinist Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer, in his book on the JUDENJAGD (HUNT FOR THE JEWS) (pp. 266-267), cites the foregoing entry. This is misleading—intentionally or unintentionally. The reader (especially the average, low-information one) is led to believe that these acts of Polish denunciation were connected with the Nazi German extermination of Jews. They were not. They had NOTHING to do with the Holocaust. [The May 23, 1941 entry PREDATES the Holocaust. The systematic mass shootings of Jews, by Germans, did not start until late June 1941, and then much further east, in the wake of Operation Barbarossa. Systematic Nazi mass gassings of Jews did not begin until very late 1941 (at Chelmno, in German-occupied northwest Poland), and not until Spring or Summer 1942 in the General Government (German-occupied central Poland).]

Pointedly, Kubalski’s entry had nothing even to do with Jews! It clearly refers to POLES reciprocally denouncing EACH OTHER. Not only is this entry not some kind of moral indictment of the way that Poles were treating Jews: It is not even some kind of moral indictment of the way that Poles were treating other Poles. Instead, as Kubalski points out, it is a testimony to human depravity in general.

Taking this further, let us consider the all-important context of the events. The Poles were simply acting like an oppressed people stripped of their dignity (as were Jews, who were acting in similar fashion in the ghettos). In addition, Polish morale was at its lowest at about this time (May 1941). Contrary to earlier hopes, the war would have no quick end. Germany had rolled over Europe. Poland’s ally France had fallen, and Poland’s ally Britain seemed on the verge of being knocked out of the war. Germany had not yet turned against its erstwhile Soviet ally. Germany’s victory in the war seemed inevitable, and a resurrected Poland looked all but impossible. There was little hope for an improvement in the Poles’ horrible conditions under the German occupation in the near future, if ever.

THE POLES’ “FAILURE OF HUMANITY” PEDAGOGOKA WSTYDU (POLITICS OF SHAME)–DEBUNKED

Instead of supporting Grabowski’s thesis about the Poles’ “failure of humanity” towards the Jews, the entry of May 23, 1941, if anything, does the exact opposite. It shows that denunciation was a long-standing, broad-based problem involving a brutalized people (Poles), and not an act of ingrained Polish villainy that was aimed specifically at Jews.