Polokaust Why Tens of Millions of Poles Not Murdered Giziowski

The Enigma of General Blaskowitz, by Richard Giziowski. 1996

Why the Polokaust Did Not Proceed to the Complete Extermination of the Poles: Insufficient German Manpower to Put Down the Expected Polish Resistance!

“Hans” Blaskowitz was descended from a family of recently-Germanized Slovenians that had settled in East Prussia. (p. 18). The enigmas surrounding him include the motive behind his vocal professed opposition to German crimes against Polish civilians (moral or utilitarian?) and the nature of his sudden death in 1948 at his war crimes trial (accident? suicide? murder of an inconvenient witness?).

THE POLES’ BZURA COUNTEROFFENSIVE

The 1939 German-Soviet conquest of Poland, led by Blaskowitz, is described in detail, especially the Battle at Kutno (Bzura). Polish troop movements, conducted at night, successfully evaded Luftwaffe surveillance. (pp. 129-130). Gen. Kutrzeba’s forces caught the Germans by surprise, and, for a few days, were successful in this first anti-German counteroffensive of WWII, until the German forces re-asserted their extreme asymmetry in firepower and speed. Blaskowitz (p. 138) noted that the battle (Sept. 9-19) would’ve lasted at least two weeks longer had the Poles possessed even one-third the tanks that the Germans had.

VERY RARELY SEEN GERMAN CONTRITION FOR CRUELTIES TO POLES

German apologies to Jews have been a dime a dozen. Those to Poles have been almost nonexistent, especially in recent decades. Here is one old example:

As the occupation began, Helmut Stieff wrote: “The things that I have seen done by Germans to the Polish are so incredible that I cannot call these people anything but evil and inhuman. Germany does not deserve to be called by its name. Germans have begun to be sub-human. I am ashamed to belong to the German race.” (p. 164).

THE MALICIOUS MYTH OF POLES “GLAD THAT HITLER DID THE DIRTY WORK FOR THEM”

The modern Polonophobic notion that Poles were one in spirit (if not action) with the Nazis against the Jews is refuted by Blaskowitz. He wrote: “The acts of violence against the Jews, which are enacted in public, do not only provoke the most profound disgust in the religious Poles, but also a pity just as great for the Jewish population, towards which the Poles hitherto showed a more or less hostile attitude.” (p. 490).

THE POLOKAUST CONSTRAINED BY PRACTICAL MATTERS, NOT SOME NAZI GERMAN ESTEEM OF POLES OVER JEWS

Himmler wanted to exterminate the Poles. (p. 212). So why didn’t it happen?

Holocaust-uniqueness proponents disingenuously belittle the 3-4 million German-murdered Poles as “only” 10% of the Polish population. In actuality, the Germans were constrained against a more comprehensive wartime genocide of the Poles by their need for a stable conquered Poland to exploit, and realization that, unlike the Jews, the Poles would fight fiercely any attempt to exterminate them, with unacceptable costs to wartime Germany. Blaskowitz comments: “The idea that the Polish people can be intimidated and kept down by terror will certainly prove to be wrong. The capacity for endurance which this nation commands is much too great…The older Polish generation knows from its own experience very well all the tried dodges of a skillful conspiracy, which have been applied during (a) hundred years of struggle. It will pass this knowledge on to the next generation, making it an opponent to be taken particularly seriously. The opinion, frequently expressed, that a small Polish revolt would be quite desirable, as it would furnish an opportunity of decimating the Poles on a large scale, can only be considered very irresponsibly. It can be proved that quantities of arms and ammunition are hidden in the country, so that a subversive movement would certainly involve the loss of much German blood. Apart from that it must be feared that reinforcements from the West would be required to subdue such a revolt, reinforcements which it might be very difficult to dispense with. There can be no doubt that these activities [atrocities] endanger the military security and the economic exploitation of the East in an irresponsible manner, and to no purpose whatsoever.” (pp. 492-492).