Polokaust Negationism Poles Killed For Cause Myth Gumkowski

Poland Under Nazi Occupation, by Janusz Gumkowski, Kazimierz Leszczynski. 1961

Holocaust and Polokaust: Not True That Jewish and Polish Deaths Were Lumped Together in the Communist-Ruled Era. Not True That Germans Only Murdered Poles “For Cause”

About 3 million Polish Jews and 3 million Polish gentiles were killed by the Nazis (pp. 215-216). This 1961 book, prominently featuring the destruction of the Jews, and doing so in separate chapters from that of Poles, is yet another refutation of the silly contention that postwar Polish authors ignored Jewish deaths or failed to differentiate between the German-determined fates of Polish Jews and Polish gentiles.

NOT TRUE THAT POLES WERE MURDERED BECAUSE THEY “DID SOMETHING”

Proponents of Holocaust supremacism (e. g, Jan T. Gross) would have us believe that, whereas Jews were killed simply for being Jews, a Pole first had to “do something” in order to be put to death. This rather extreme Judeocentric construct is totally false. Let us examine the facts.

Simply being a Pole was sufficient reason for the Germans to send a Pole to die in a concentration camp! Gumkowski comments: “But while in Western Europe it was only those who were active opponents of the Nazi regime, or suspected as such, that were sent to the camps, in Poland everyone was a candidate because he belonged to a nation on whom sentence had been passed. The basic job of the concentration camp was to drive the prisoners to a ‘natural’ death after first having exploited them as slave labor.” (p. 60)

So die quickly or die slowly, but be dead just the same. Thus, although Poles were generally not sent to extermination camps for immediate gassing, as were most of the Jews, they were sent in large numbers to concentration camps. Their deaths were slower but usually no less certain.

THE EARLY POLOKAUST: A SUMMARY

The authors devote considerable detail to such things as the re-Germanization of “racially valuable” Polish children, the millions of Polish forced laborers sent to the Reich (including the forced abortions on pregnant Polish women; p. 173), and the mass expulsions of Poles in the Zamosc region. Some proponents of Holocaust uniqueness have tried to make something of the fact that, unlike Jews in general, the “resettled” Zamosc Poles weren’t gassed. But so what? Since when does mode of death determine its significance? Zamosc Poles sent to Auschwitz were killed by cardiac injections, and a false cause of natural death was listed (pp. 156-158). The Germans killed the Poles covertly in order to avoid inflaming Polish guerilla resistance, which by then was considerable.

THE POLOKAUST INVOLVED PASSIVE AS WELL AS ACTIVE GENOCIDE OF POLES

In addition to all the foregoing, the Germans employed various “passive”-genocidal techniques against the Polish population as a whole, as elaborated by Rafal Lemkin, the Polish Jew who coined the term genocide in 1944. Most Poles got only 600 calories per day (p. 218), leading to epidemics (for instance, over a million excess cases of tuberculosis relative to a similar prewar interval of time (p. 219), and that for a population of only some 25 million).

Now consider the perennial complaints about Poles and fugitive Jews. The severe privations faced by Poles help the reader understand why Poles didn’t always aid Jews, and why Poles sometimes betrayed or killed fugitive Jews who were suspected of, or known to be, stealing from Poles.

NO WAY OF KNOWING HOW MANY POLES FELL TO THE GERMANS

The Germans murdered large number of Poles by shooting, often in secret places in the woods. The graves (and those of murdered Soviet POWs) were so well disguised (p. 85, 114), that, unless previously marked by a witness (as by axe marks on a nearby tree), they were very hard to find. For this reason, an unknown fraction of such graves have never been found.

Reader: Prepare for the ghoulishness of German actions. The authors list the weights of ashes/bones left after the mass burnings of Poles who had been murdered by the Germans at Wola during the Soviet-betrayed 1944 Warsaw Uprising (pp. 213-214).

HAD THE THIRD REICH WON WWII: THE ANNIHILATION OF THE POLISH PEOPLE OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME

There were long-term German plans to exterminate the Polish people. According to GENERALPLAN OST, some 51 million Slavs would have to be “resettled” (p. 13). Efforts to cause negative population growth (using modern parlance) among Slavs would continue (p. 19, 28). So would slow deaths in concentration camps. Apropos to this, there were plans to greatly expand the Auschwitz complex to be able to hold 400,000 prisoners simultaneously (p. 81).

As for the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematories: “Their deep foundations and concrete walls show that they were intended for long use, undoubtedly longer than that required by the campaign to exterminate the Jews.” (p. 80). Moreover, there were plans to build additional crematories (pp. 79-80).