Polokaust Negationism By Jan T Gross

Polish Society Under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939 1944, by Jan Tomasz Gross. 1979

Nazi German Terror in Poland Made Into a Joke. I Provide Rebuttal By Polish Underground Leader Stefan Korbonski, Who, Unlike Gross, Actually Lived Under the Nazi German Occupation

Neo-Stalinist Jan T. Gross, who later overtly showed his rabid Polonophobia in NEIGHBORS, GOLDEN HARVEST, FEAR, asserts that Poles were relatively free under the German occupation (pp. 237-240). So a totally brutalized nation is “relatively free”, huh? On what planet is Gross walking on?

GROSS ILLOGIC: AN ABOUT FACE

Gross then shoots himself in the foot. By his own admission, Poles fled into the forests in the face of German actions (p. 80, 284), drank alcohol to excess to forget their situation (p. 105), etc.–hardly the behaviors of a free people!

Jan T. Gross now asserts that the cruelties of the Germans were so arbitrary that they made Poles unafraid of them! I could not make this up! Arbitrarily-delivered cruelties don’t make people “free”, just as the unpredictable nature of a man’s violence doesn’t make other family members “free” or otherwise indifferent to setting off the violence. The often-fortuitous nature of fatal car accidents doesn’t make drivers reckless or fatalistic.

FINALLY, SOME SENSE IN JAN T. GROSS’ WRITING

Unlike in his later FEAR, Gross is candid about the large scale of Jewish-Soviet collaboration (p. 20). He also details the scope of anti-Polish Ukrainian-German collaboration. (pp. 188-195).

Gross is clear about the 6 million Polish dead, half of them Jews (p. 84), the near-starvation conditions faced by Poles (p. 45), etc. He acknowledges prospective Quislings such as Estreicher, Prince Radziwill, Studnicki (pp. 128-130), which refutes the claim that there was no Polish Quisling because the Germans never wanted one. He suggests that, owing to endemic Nazi corruption at all levels, German records, even internal ones, are unreliable. (pp. 43-44).

The de-moralization experienced by Polish society led to widespread banditry (pp. 160-164), and Poles denouncing each other to the Germans for petty reasons (p. 141). (How many instances of fugitive Jews denounced or killed by Poles, automatically blamed on anti-Semitism, were actually the result of this common criminality?)

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A POLISH UNDERGROUND AUTHORITY DEBUNKS JAN T. GROSS

Here is my English-language review of: Korbonski, S. 1981. Polskie Panstwo Podziemne Jako Zjawisko Socjologiczne. ZESZYTE HISTORYCZNE 58:176-184. (This is Korbonski’s Review of Jan T. Gross. 1979. POLISH SOCIETY UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION).

Stefan Korbonski, who, unlike Jan T. Gross, actually lived under the German occupation, exposes and clarifies many of Gross’ claims.

Warsaw Mayor Stefan Starzynski, who had rallied the Poles in defense of the city (1939), wasn’t murdered by the Germans until four years later.

Jan Gross follows the materialist view of history, whereby deeds are supposedly motivated primarily by financial gain. Consistent with this, Gross minimizes Polish patriotism, and attempts to belittle involvement in the Polish Underground by asserting that Poles were paid for their participation. In actuality, only a small fraction of participants were paid (p. 179). These were people who served the Underground full time, and had no other means of supporting themselves. In any case, the pay was meager. Some profit!

Against Gross’ supposition that members of the Underground were safer than the population, Korbonski points out that Underground involvement offered no protection whatsoever against becoming a victim of random executions by the Germans, roundups for forced labor in Germany, etc. (p. 178).

Gross displays open Judeocentric bias. He selectively mischaracterizes 1 (one!) Underground report’s opinion to support his sweeping generalization of Polish society being anti-Semitic. (p. 181). He repeats the mantra about Poles being disinclined to help Jews. Against this, Korbonski notes that 50,000-120,000 Jews were saved by Poles (p. 181), and that usually several Poles were necessary to save even one Jew. As for the “small number” of Jews saved, Korbonski fails to point out that no more than 150,000 or so Jews ever fled the ghettos and thus became accessible to potential Polish help. [Note that even the maximum is much less than the 250,000 claimed by Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer in his JUDENJAGD.]

The remaining 3,300,000 Polish Jews stayed in the ghettos, never becoming accessible to potential Polish help, and perished almost to a person at the hands of the Germans.