Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Nazi Credits Poles Blood

Hitler’s Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe, by Philip W. Blood. 2006

On Lebensraum and anti-Slavic German Racism. Dutch SS Man Confirms: Poles Fought Alongside Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Hitler discussed Lebensraum in his MEIN KAMPF. (p. 97). However, the concept long predated Hitler. For instance, around the time of WWI, various German thinkers thought in terms of Germans colonizing surrounding territories and cleansing them racially of their current inhabitants. (p. xiii).

NOT ONLY JEWS WERE HATED BY THE NAZIS

During WWII, Jews were not the only ones facing systematic racism. Thus, the Nazis referred to Russians as “Europe’s Negro”, etc. (p. 100). Escaped British or American POWs, who were Slavs or French, were automatically put to death in accordance with PLAN KUGEL. (p. 118).

THERE WAS COLLABORATION AND THERE WAS COLLABORATION

Although some members of all nationalities collaborated with the Nazis, the scale of Ukrainian-Nazi collaboration was staggering. In November 1942, in German-occupied Russia, Hans-Adolf Prutzmann had at his disposal 15,665 Ukrainian Schuma (Schutzmannschaften) and 55,094 full-time and part-time Ukrainian Hilfspolizei. (pp. 131-132).

The author inadvertently attests to the relatively low rate of Polish collaboration. He writes: “Over the period of the war, 158 Schuma battalions were raised in the Baltic States, 23 in Russia-Centre, 65 in the Ukraine, and 11 in the General Government of Poland.” (p. 142). [Even this does not tell the full story. Many if not most Poles in the 11 units had been recruited by the Germans by force, and deserted at the first opportunity. In addition, there were very many non-Poles in these 11 units.]

NAZIS GIVE TRIBUTE TO THE 1944 WARSAW INSURGENTS

Heinrich Himmler compared the ferocity of the house-to-house fighting in the Warsaw Uprising with that earlier in Stalingrad. (p. 240).

POLES FOUGHT ALONGSIDE JEWS IN WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING: MORE EVIDENCE

The author discusses the Jews’ 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Interestingly, he quotes Franz van Lent, a Dutchman who served with the SS before being captured by the British. Lent writes about the German cruelties against the Jewish insurgents, and adds: “‘Six Poles of the Polish Underground movement who had tried to help the Jews were arrested and shot…’” (p. 221, 358). This confirms the oft-ignored fact, mentioned in the Stroop Report, that Polish guerrillas fought alongside the Jews. [Of course, this does not include those Polish guerrillas who had died earlier in the combat, or had managed to escape.]

THE MYTH OF SINCERE GERMAN REPENTANCE OVER NAZISM

The biographical details of this book, though centered on von dem Bach-Zelewski, include many other SS personages, if only within short-paragraph accounts in the back of the book. The Polish reader may be stunned at the number of high profile Nazis, known to have committed atrocious crimes against Polish civilians, who lived to a ripe old age and escaped justice for their crimes. These included Otto Hellweg, Fritz Kattzman, Bach-Zelewski, and Heinz Reinefarth, (p. 240, pp. 298-299).