Postwar Poland Hid Jewishness of Deaths Myth Debunked Gumkowski

Treblinka, by Janusz Gumkowski. 1961

Debunks the Hiding Jewish Deaths Myth. At No Time Were Murdered Jews Lumped With Murdered Poles

In recent years there has been the curious argument which posits that, until recently, Polish books and media used to treat the Nazi policies towards Jews and Poles as one and the same. This 1961 book helps refute it. It explicitly points out the fact that Treblinka 1 was a work camp for the individual repressions of mostly Poles, while Treblinka II was an extermination center for mostly Jews. (2nd small-print page). [Perhaps the bogus accusation of Jews not being individualized as victims is really a smokescreen for the exact opposite–the active or passive depreciation of Poles as victims of the Nazis, especially in Holocaust educational and media materials.]

The narrative includes a brief description of the modus operandi of the mass gassing and cremation-on-pyres procedure. There is also a selection of German documents included. This book includes photos from the Warsaw Ghetto, most of whose inhabitants were sent to their deaths at Treblinka II, photos of the bone-strewed fields where Treblinka stood, and photos of the memorial that now rests at the site.

SOON-TO-DIE JEWS FORCED TO SEE THRONGS OF INDIFFERENT OR HOSTILE POLES? NOT LIKELY

One of the photos shows a small opening at the top of the death train, from which three Jewish victims could barely peer out of. While it is incorrect to say that all death trains lacked windows, and that nobody could ever see out of the death trains, it is still obvious that the notion of throngs of Poles cheering the Jews being sent to their deaths remains a Polonophobic Holocaust myth. Recall also that the Germans shot any Pole who got too close to a Jew-filled death train.