Polokaust Summary of Losses Poland Survey

Statement on War Losses and Damages of Poland in 1939-1945, by Bureau Odszkodowan. 1947

The Polokaust: Early Post-WWII Polish Government Survey. Staggering Polish Losses. The Myth of Jewish Deaths Ignored, or Mixed Up With, or Hidden Among, Polish Deaths

Since this Polish government report was published before the Soviet puppet state had full control of postwar Poland, it is relatively free of obvious ideological contamination. For instance, it specifically mentions the Polish territories that had been, to use their Orwellian words, ceded to the USSR. However, it makes no mention of either Soviet or Ukrainian crimes against Poles.

NO ATTEMPT TO IGNORE, MINIMIZE, OR DISGUISE JEWISH DEATHS AS POLISH DEATHS

There have, in recent years, commonly been accusations against the first decades of post-WWII Polish policies, variously accusing them of avoiding the reality of Jewish deaths, admixing Jewish deaths with Polish ones, or implying that Polish Jews and Polish gentiles suffered equally. This work is yet another refutation of these ridiculous canards.

Jews are specifically identified as having even fewer rights under the Nazis than Poles (pp. 11-12), and subject to extermination. (p. 40). The 3.2 million murdered Polish Jews [now reduced to about 2.9 million] are explicitly identified as a separate component of the total of 6,028,000 murdered Polish citizens. (p. 32, 43).

So why do we keep hearing the meme about Poland hiding Jewish deaths? Is it a role-reversal–a false accusation used to justify the supremacy of the Jews’ Holocaust over the genocides of all other peoples in general, and of the Poles in particular?

THE POLOKAUST: PASSIVE GENOCIDE IN ADDITION TO THE ACTIVE GENOCIDE

The authors recognize the fact that, apart from the direct war-related losses and murders, Poles also perished as a result of passive genocidal policies enacted by the Germans. The rate of general mortality increased from 13 promil to 18 promil for adults and 26 promil for children. (p. 34). The daily food ration for Poles in German-occupied Poland was a meager 400-700 calories per day. (p. 28). Only the illegal black market averted mass starvation. Over 2.5 million Poles (largely of prime childbearing age) were deported to Germany for forced labor. (p. 28). Over 1,200,000 Poles were never born because of the deliberately oppressive living conditions. (p. 34, 44).

THE SYSTEMATIC NAZI GERMAN DESTRUCTION OF POLAND’S WEALTH

The material and cultural losses of the Polish nation were staggering. (p. 40). Poland lost 43% of her cultural equipment, 60% of her livestock, 62% of her post and telecommunication, 70-80% of her scientific equipment (p. 19), and 84% of her railroads.

THE POLOKAUST TO BE ACCOMPLISHED IN STAGES. PHYSICAL EXTERMINATION—LIKE THAT OF THE JEWS—WAS THE LAST STEP

All this was only the beginning. The authors recognize the fact that the destruction of the Polish people could not be accomplished in one fell swoop. It had to be done incrementally: “This fight was divided into several stages, namely: breaking of the national conscience [consciousness?], extermination of the intellectual class, economic destruction, and finally the biological extermination.” (p. 4).