Polokaust Slighted By Media PROOF Niechwiadowicz

German Camps,Polish Victims: The BBC coverage of German-occupied Poland, by Jan Niechwiadowicz 2012

Polokaust Slighted: A Devastating Strongly-Supported Indictment of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and Its Distorted Portrayal of Poles During WWII

If anyone has any doubt about the extent of Polonophobia in action, this work is an eye-opener. The reader who has an interest in media matters will also find this scholarly work interesting. Author Jan Niechwiadowicz has meticulously examined a total of 532 BBC articles (p. 11) [catalogued in the back of this book] related to WWII, and compared the portrayals of Poland, France, and the Canary Islands.

Researcher Jan Niechwiadowicz also used numerous graphics to illustrate his main findings. Significantly, one of the bar graphs used by Niechwiadowicz (p. 15) shows that the German camps in Poland are more frequently referred to as “in Poland” than as “Nazi”, and very rarely are called “German”. A trans-national comparison is even more revealing. A bar graph (p. 18) shows that BBC articles much more frequently mention France and the Channel Islands as under occupation than they mention Poland as under occupation. In addition, Germans are MUCH more frequently mentioned in conjunction with France and the Channel Islands than in conjunction with conquered Poland.

THE MISLEADING TERM “NAZI”

When the perpetrators of genocidal crimes are mentioned by name, it is almost always “Nazi”. We thus hear of “Poles and Nazis”, but rarely “Poles and Germans”. Worst yet, as demonstrated by Niechwiadowicz, many readers have an abysmal ignorance of WWII. Furthermore, they often do not know who the Nazis were, and frequently assume that they were Poles. (p. 20, 22).

“POLISH DEATH CAMPS” MENDACITY DENOUNCED

Although the BBC, and other media outlets, frequently uses false or misleading phrases such as “Polish death camps”, a large number of influential individuals and organizations have denounced this usage. The author tabulates some of them. (pp. 47-52).

POLISH WWII SUFFERING IS SLIGHTED

Jan Niechwiadowicz has also examined how often the BBC recognizes Poles as victims of the Germans (Polokaust). It is not often. Niechwiadowicz comments, “Poles only appear in around 50% of articles listing Holocaust/camp victims. Male homosexuals appear in over 80%. With as few as 5,000 male homosexuals being victimised in all camps, compared to the 130-140 thousand Poles at Auschwitz alone it is unusual that Poles are ignored. With ethnic Poles suffering at least 100 times to perhaps as much as 500 times as many dead, it seems the BBC’s policy to feature male homosexuals more frequently has to be questioned.” (pp. 21-22).