Polokaust By Starvation Thwarted By Black Market Brzeska

Through a Woman’s Eyes: Life in Poland Under the German Occupation, by Maria Brzeska. 1944

The Unfolding Polokaust in Eyewitness Detail. Exposes the Holocaustspeak Nonsense of “Poles as Spectators and Bystanders”, “Polish Complicity in the Holocaust”, etc.

Nowadays, the Nazi German genocide of Poles (Polokaust) is all but forgotten in favor of the Nazi genocide of the Jews (Shoah). The deadly everyday situation facing Poles, if mentioned at all, is softened and reduced to a cursory footnote. Poles are relegated to spectators, or worse, bystanders relative to the Jews. This book serves as a revelation to people who think this way. Even the reader quite familiar with this subject can be shocked by the German cruelties against Poles.

POLISH GUERRILLA ACTION

This work is centered on the Krakow area, but encompasses much of German-occupied Poland. It describes various passive and active Polish forms of resistance to the German occupants. The German “Operation Zamosc”, further east, is also highlighted, as is the guerrilla opposition by the Peasant Battalions (BATALIONY CHLOPSKIE). (pp. 65-66).

THE UNFOLDING POLOKAUST IN GRAPHIC DETAIL

The daily German terror facing Poles is elaborated. Countless Poles were murdered in street executions and concentration camps. Polish children missed their childhoods, and had to grow up fast. They went to bed frightened that the Germans would take away their mothers just as they had murdered their fathers. (pp. 48-49). In the Spring of 1943, there were 525,000 hungry and half-clad Polish children in need of aid. (p. 46). Not only Jews were gassed. In the summer of 1943, some 500 Polish convalescents were gassed by the Germans at Auschwitz. (p. 7).

The German genocide of Poles was largely passive–shortened lifespans and decreased birth rates enforced by the drastic reduction in the Poles’ standard of living, including the imposition of near-starvation conditions through confiscation of feedstuffs. Brzeska comments (quote) The sizes of quotas steadily increased, and with them the opposition to quotas. Despite a continual reduction in the length of the delivery period, despite the growing terror which accompanied the non-fulfillment of quotas, the proportion of grain, and even more of meat handed over never equaled the prescribed demands…The obstinate villages are punished by the taking of hostages, by the firing of farms, by deportation…Unable to break the villages with poverty, the Germans tried to depopulate them. (unquote).(pp. 63-64).

POLES PUSH BACK AGAINST THE ATTEMPTED GERMAN STARVATION-GENOCIDE

Author Maria Brzeska also describes Polish resistance to the draconian German policies. She comments, (quote) The enterprising and inapprehensible street traders play a very useful part. They make it possible for the people somehow or other to survive, if only by barter, with their effective sabotage they undermine the German system of food rationing… (p. 32). Poverty-stricken and grey, the streets of Warsaw still throb with Polish life… (p. 33). Miracles of ingenuity, much courage and daring are required to smuggle a pat of butter to town in broad daylight at the bottom of a pitcher of milk, or to carry a piece of bacon under one’s apron…The economic exchange between town and village was the salvation of both sides. (quote)(p. 62).

POLES DID NOT IGNORE THE FATE OF THE JEWS

We constantly hear the bogus complaints that Poles ignored the situation facing Jews, just mixed-up Jewish deaths with Polish deaths, or (horror of horrors) treated the Jewish experience under the Nazis as equivalent with the Polish experience under the Nazis. This is far from the truth.

Maria Brzeska unambiguosly touches on the situation facing Poland’s Jews, (quote) The peasants whom the Germans reduced to the role of pariah gave their protection to THE MOST MISERABLE OF THE PARIAHS: THE JEWS. And in this, as in many other cases, they have often paid for their humanity with their life. In the little village of Sadowa in Wegrow county a baker, his wife and son were shot for giving a loaf of bread to a Jewish woman. In many cases villages have had their inhabitants shot, their husbandries burnt down, their people deported amid sneers and humiliations, just because they have given Jews a loaf of bread, or shelter for the night, or have set plates of groats in the forest for the homeless Jewish children whom the Germans shoot like rabbits. None the less in village after village deliberate and effective aid has been given, with strong and helpful forest always available if necessary. (unquote; Emphasis added)(p. 70).

[This is far from an isolated instance. For over 100 different examples of chains of Polish families and villages aiding Jews in an organized manner, please see: Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold? Studies on the Wartime Fate of Poles and Jews, and read the detailed Peczkis review.]

POLISH AID TO THE JEWS: NEVER ENOUGH

Now consider the recent publication of THE HUNT FOR THE JEWS (JUDENJAGD),by neo-Stalinist Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer. In it, Grabowski has tried to depreciate Polish aid to Jews by summarily dismissing much of what passed for Polish aid to Jews as small in scale. However, as Brzeska’s quoted paragraph above makes vividly evident, even the most “trivial” Polish aid to Jews incurred savage, mortal German reprisals!

STOP THE HOLOCAUSTSPEAK ABOUT “POLISH SPECTATORS”, “POLISH BYSTANDERS”, AND “POLISH COMPLICITY IN THE HOLOCAUST”

Finally, Brzeska’s detailed and graphic information about the severe Polish privations under German occupation unwittingly serves as a refutation of other attacks on Poland by the likes of Jan T. Gross and Jan Grabowski. The near-starvation conditions facing Poles make it easy to see why many Poles did not want to share their meager rations with Jews, why some Poles only helped Jews who could pay and for only as long as they could pay, why some Poles reacted with murderous fury against known or suspected Jewish banditry (as through the JUDENJAGD), etc.

The facts are clear, to whoever is open to learning them. The very terms (Polish spectators, Polish bystanders, and Polish complicity in the Holocaust) are somewhere between offensively false and obscene.

UNWARRATED POLISH TRUST IN THE ALLIES

Written a little halfway through the war (shortly after Sikorski’s probably-purposeful catastrophic death in mid-1943: p. 92), this work has the advantage of not being influenced by later events. One obvious theme of this book is the misguided-goodwill trusting Polish attitude towards their British allies, with no inkling of the Churchill-Roosevelt Teheran-Yalta sellout of Poland that was already unfolding behind the scenes.