Jewish Disloyalty 1939 War Spector

The Holocaust Of Volhynian Jews: 1941 44, by Shmuel Spector. 1990

Rare 1939 Zydokomuna Candor. OUN-UPA Genocide of Poles. ARMIA KRAJOWA Welcomed Jews

This scholarly work was written by a Jewish author. It first describes the prewar life of Jews, and then focuses on the Soviet invasion of Wolyn (Volyn). Spector is candid about the Zydokomuna (Judeo-Bolshevism) and its overt anti-Polish policies: “The Communists, Jews among them, welcomed the Soviets with joy. They didn’t waste time in joining the local civil militias and setting up a provisory administrative apparatus. The militias helped the new rulers to disarm Polish policemen and officials and placed them under arrests. These actions aroused the wrath of the Polish public.” (p. 24). Obviously, this treacherous conduct went far beyond the presumed “Jewish gratitude to the Soviets for not falling into the hands of the Nazis”!

THOSE MID-1941 POGROMS OF JEWS

Then Nazi Germany attacked its erstwhile Soviet ally June 1941). Just as significant is what the book does NOT say. In contrast to the anti-Polish stereotypes of much popular-level Holocaust material, the book makes it clear that, with one alleged exception, pogroms of Jews conducted in 1941 (on the heels of the invading German army) were conducted by Ukrainians and not Poles. (pp. 66-67).

THE HOLOCAUST

This book details the genocidal work of German Nazis and their many Ukrainian collaborators in the mass murder of Volhynia’s (Wolyn’s) Jews. The scale of Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis was staggering. In fact, the local Germans were outnumbered 10:1 by Ukrainian collaborationist police. Based on a German source, there were 15,370 Ukrainian police serving the Germans, and that only in the Volyn-Podolia region. (p. 175). Owing to the fact that the local Ukrainian population of this area was only in the few millions, this amounted to a very high rate of collaboration.

THE OUN-UPA GENOCIDE OF POLES

This work conspicuously refrains from the usual purely Judeocentric approach to the Holocaust. Spector discusses the systematic genocide of at least 40,000 innocent Volhynian Polish civilians by Ukrainian fascist nationalist forces (first the Ukrainian collaborationist police, and then the OUN-UPA–the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose slogan was “First the Jews, then the Poles”).

THE ARMIA KRAJOWA WELCOMES JEWS

In contrast to the usual unsubstantiated sweeping accusations of the AK (the Polish Home Army) killing fugitive Jews, Spector makes it clear that such instances were rare (even if one assumes that they were unjustified by such things as Jewish robberies and murders of Polish villagers, etc.). Spector pointedly asserts that there were NO massacres of Jews conducted by the AK. To the contrary, Spector estimates that there were 200-300 Jews openly serving in the Volynian branch of the Polish Home Army (AK)(p. 268). He even nullifies his own argument about the relative infrequency of such participation by acknowledging what Poles have been saying all along–that relatively few Jews had sufficient military training (p. 285) to make them desirable volunteers in guerrilla forces. Spector also spends considerable time in discussing how Poles frequently helped Jews.

Having now read dozens of books about the Holocaust, I only wish that more books about the Holocaust showed such overall balance and objectivity!