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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, by Clare Mulley (Goodreads Author). 2013

Understanding Poland’s Nobility. Contrary to Holocaust Myths, Poles Did NOT “Have to Do Something” To Be Put to Death By the Germans! The Espionage Adventure

This fascinating book is much more than about spying. For example:

UNDEMONIZING THE POLISH NOBILITY

Krystyna Skarbek (Christine Granville) was of mixed Polish/Jewish background. Her Polish side was aristocratic. Lest it be misunderstood in its Polish context, Mulley clarifies “aristocracy”, “With the exception of some Lithuanian princely families, historically Poland’s large enfranchised class, or `szlachta’, did not hold aristocratic titles. It was traditional for them to regard each other as equals, to be addressed as `dear brother’, and even–when Poland was still an independent country–to elect the Polish king. But many of the ancient nobility became so impoverished that they were effectively peasants with coat-of-arms. And many families who sported illustrious titles, as opposed to simply having noble names, owed these to their imperial overlords, who were, as a rule, buying favors.” (pp. 2-3).

NOT ONLY THE JEWS SUFFERED: POLES DID TOO

Granville’s intelligence work began shortly after the 1939 German-Soviet conquest of Poland. She met with Polish refugees in Hungary. She used her skills as an avid skier to ski into Poland. Granville observed firsthand the brutalities of the German occupation. (pp. 56-on). Poles lived under starvation conditions. Education was almost entirely abolished. Although the Jews had it worse, the lot of the Poles was not much better.

POLOKAUST TACTICS: POLES DID NOT “HAVE TO DO SOMETHING” TO BE MURDERED BY THE GERMANS!

Granville comments, “The entire population lived in constant fear of arrest, torture, transportation, or extermination. They were shot on almost any pretext…” (p. 58). In fact, Granville reported that, in Warsaw alone, the Germans shot over 100 Poles daily. (p. 65).

Now, according to one tenet of Holocaust supremacism, whereas a Jew was killed by the Nazis simply for being a Jew, a Pole had to break some German law before he was killed by the Nazis. Some Judeocentric commentators go as far saying, “Jews died because they were Jews; Poles died because it was war.” Enough of this nonsense.

The facts brought out by Granville are clear. It is high time that this Polish-suffering-demeaning Holocaust myth be laid to rest.

WEARING A HATED UNIFORM: POLES FORCED INTO THE GERMAN ARMY

Later, Granville worked in German-occupied France. She helped Poles escape the clutches of service in the Wehrmacht. These Poles had been conscripted under threat of reprisals against family members, or out of destitution. (pp. 221-222, 233). Although sometimes portrayed as such, these Poles were not Nazi collaborators in any sense of the word.

THE IDEAL SPY

Christine Granville had a lifelong love for adventure. She was never one to be tied down by rules, customs, or conventions.

Repeatedly, Granville displayed uncanny sangfroid (Mulley’s term) to function effectively as a spy, and to talk her way out of trouble. Partly owing to that, and perhaps partly to a well-placed bribe, Granville even survived a Gestapo interrogation. (pp. 96-97).

As part of her intelligence work, Christine Granville repeatedly smuggled out important intelligence information out of German-occupied Poland–often on microfilm. This included new gases produced by the Germans [nerve gas?], newly invented German torpedoes, information on German ammunition factories, aircraft, aerodromes, and much more. (pp. 90-91). In time, Granville worked with other agents in monitoring the early-1941 German military buildup, in German-occupied Poland, in preparation for what turned out to be Operation Barbarossa (p. 106), the Nazi German invasion of its erstwhile Soviet Communist ally.

THE SELLOUT OF FAITHFUL-ALLY POLAND AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Author Clare Mulley has a good grasp of the magnitude of the Polish share in the Allied victory of WWII. She writes, “The debt was indeed great: the Polish contribution to the war had been outstanding. Poland had produced the fourth-largest armed force in Europe, after the Soviet Union, the United States and the combined troops of the British Empire. Polish pilots had formed the largest group of non-British personnel in the Battle of Britain, and Polish troops had fought under British command in decisive battles in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Libya. In intelligence, the Poles had provided the Enigma machine to Britain’s cryptographers and had cracked the earlier version of the code; and they had supplied sample parts of Germany’s V2 rocket.” (p. 283).

After WWII, Granville shared the Polish anger and pain, of Poland’s ally Great Britain betraying Poland at Teheran and Yalta. Many Poles settled in the Kensington area of London. (p. 304). An increasing number of Britons, having short memories, clamored for the Poles to leave. In a cruel irony to this, the Poles had nowhere to go—thanks to the very actions of Churchill and Roosevelt.

THE AFTERMATH

In another cruel irony of fate, Granville’s violent end did not come during the war, nor was it (apparently, at least) connected to the dangerous espionage business. It came about several years after the wear–all because of her philandering and her having jilted the wrong person.

Granville’s memorabilia is available for viewing. The Imperial War Museum has a Polish Vis Radom gun, which reportedly had belonged to Christine Granville. (p. 201). The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London has her portrait, wireless, knife, some papers, and a painting of her. (p. 346).

CORRECTION NEEDED

Unfortunately, author Mulley repeats a number of hoary myths about the 1939 war. This is the myth of Polish cavalry charging German tanks (p. 75), and of the Polish Air Force largely destroyed on the ground in the first day or so of the war. (p. 30).