Undemonizing Endeks on Partial Expulsion of Jews Segal

The New Order in Poland, by Simon Segal. 1942

Some Jews Spared From Nazi Persecution. Mass Emigration of Jews Supported By VARIOUS Poles and Jews! Prewar Poland Had Achieved Much in Agriculture.

Because this book was written just before the Holocaust, its analyses were not colored by it.

PRE-SHOAH: NOT ALL CLASSES OF JEWS IN POLAND WERE PERSECUTED BY THE NAZIS

Foreign nationals who were Jews were generally exempt from the Nazi anti-Jewish laws, and didn’t have to wear the Star. (p. 69).

The Germans, besides isolating the Jews in ghettoes, wanted to isolate them further in a Lublin-area reservation (pp. 61-63), and the German press had hailed this as being “a solution of the Jewish problem in Europe.” (p. 64). Madagascar was also mentioned in this regard.

NOT ONLY THE ZIONISTS AND ENDEKS HAD PROPOSED A MASS EMIGRATION (VIRTUAL EXPULSION) OF POLAND’S JEWS

What if the Holocaust never happened? Mass emigration of Poland’s Jews was proposed not only by the Zionist Jabotinsky (Jabotinski) and the Endek elements in the Polish Government-in-Exile, but also by Joseph Retinger, General Sikorski’s secretary. (p. 275). In addition, “However, even some leaders of the Peasant and Socialist Parties believe that because of the faulty social and economic structure of Polish Jewry, a Jewish mass emigration will be necessary after the war.” (pp. 273-274).

PRE-WWII POLAND HAD MADE STRIDES IN SOLVING HER AGRICULTURAL INEFFICIENCIES

The prewar Polish government did consolidate many inefficiently-small holdings (pp. 141-142), and Poland had been a food-exporting nation all along. (p. 193). In the Reich-annexed provinces, German settlers’ mechanized agriculture could only modestly improve upon the land’s prewar Polish output. (p. 137).