Stinking Jewish Ingratitude Example Gutman

Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Israel Gutman. 1998

ZOB-Centered Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Narrative. This Eminent Holocaust Scholar Shows a Frankly Disgusting Ingratitude to Poles Who Died in Behalf of the Jews

This book is of variable quality. Let us examine a few salient issues:

A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH TO THE HOLOCAUST

Holocaust scholar Yisrael Gutman sees the Nazi extermination plan against Jews not as something that went back to the early days of Nazi ideology and power, but something that developed gradually, and wasn’t decided on until about mid-1941. (p. 71). Simultaneously, Jewish thought evolved from seeing Nazism as just another persecution of Jews to belated realization of its unfolding exterminatory policies.

POLES AND THE GERMAN-MADE WARSAW GHETTO

Gutman praises Polish smugglers for bringing food to the starving ghetto, notwithstanding the fact that most of them did it for money. (p. 92). He also discusses members of the Polish Underground, notably Iwanski (e. g., p. 169) and Wolinski (e. g., p. 171), and their involvement in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

WHY POLES DID NOT GIVE MORE ARMS TO THE ZOB FIGHTERS

Gutman acknowledges the fact that almost none of the ZOB fighters had any military training whatsoever. (p. 204). (In contrast, the ZZW offered stronger resistance, as it had experienced soldiers, and had received more substantial Polish aid.) Gutman does not mention the fact that this confessed lack of military training (along with the ZOB’s Communist affiliations) made Poles doubtful about supplying arms to these Jewish insurgents.

Unfortunately, Gutman insinuates that the Polish Underground being well-armed (p. 173), thereby insinuating that it was “stingy” in supplying weapons to the Jewish fighters. As a historian, he should know better. For proof of the shortage of arms, consider another bloody event at this time (Spring 1943). The Ukrainian fascist-separatist OUN-UPA was conducting genocide against the Poles of prewar eastern Poland, and only a handful of Polish villages had even a half-adequate supply of arms for defense. So much for the myth of a well-armed Polish Underground!

Gutman repeats his rejection of the authenticity of early Jewish-Polish Underground contacts, as reported by Bor Komorowski, the Polish Underground leader. (pp. 171-172). In actuality, the events are compatible with the veracity of Bor Komorowski. (See: FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST, by Lukas ).

SOME TRULY AMAZING STATEMENTS (GET THE AIR-SICKNESS BAG BEFORE READING)

Eminent Holocaust scholar Yisrael Gutman discusses the Polish-Underground AK (A.K.) group of Captain Joseph Pszenny and its unsuccessful attempt to explode a hole in the Ghetto wall. (pp. 217-218). Without a shred of supporting evidence, he dismisses it as “improvised”, a “symbolic gesture”, and something done essentially for public relations. In other words, Poles like to shed their blood for “public relations”, huh? Is it any wonder that some Poles think that Jews have a stinking ingratitude towards Poles?