Warsaw Uprising 1944 Soviet Innocence Two Uprisings Fallacies Countered Zebrowski

Warszawa ’44: Krew i Chwala, by Leszek Zebrowski. 2018

How the Soviet-Betrayed 1944 Warsaw Uprising Continues To Be Misused By Those Who Harm Poland

Book title: PROPAGANDA SURROUNDING THE UPRISING AS A TOOL OF OLD AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS

Historian Leszek Zebrowski reminds us that, “History is a tool of politics.”(p. 13). That is why we hear about “Polish death camps” and “Polish fascists”  (p. 13). [Zebrowski does not go far enough. That is why we also endlessly hear about “incurable Polish anti-Semitism” and “Polish complicity in the Holocaust” .]

This book contains photos, text, and scanned copies of actual bulletins, brochures, and pamphlets, from around the Uprising, of Soviet, German, and Polish origin.

Owing to the fact that Zebrowski specializes in the history of the NSZ, he presents many details about it in relation to the Uprising. For instance, an NSZ-ONR bulletin, from January 1945, advocates respect for the A. K. (ARMIA KRAJOWA) and its soldiers, despite disagreements with such things as its Soviets-are-Poland’s-allies political orientation. (p. 239).

Since so much has already been written about the Warsaw Uprising, I focus my review mostly on recent matters and on information that I have not seen mentioned in earlier works on the Uprising.

SCALE OF OVERALL ORGANIZED POLISH UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY

Zebrowski estimates that 7% of the Polish population was involved in Underground activity of some sort under the Nazi German occupation. This encompassed clandestine education as well as military, political, and counterpropaganda activism. (p. 207).

More Poles were not involved as a result of fear for their lives, and the desire to keep a low profile so as to survive the brutal, demoralizing German occupation. [Ironic to the perennial Jewish accusation that “most Poles did nothing” to rescue Jews, most Poles also “did nothing” to actively oppose the Germans–and for exactly the same fear-based reasons!]

THE MYTH OF THE MYTH OF THE COLD-BLOODED SOVIET BETRAYAL OF THE WARSAW UPRISING

Historian Leszek Zebrowski not only shows that Stalin could have made the Warsaw Uprising a success had he wanted to, but that he could have done so without necessarily involving any Soviet ground troops at all! (p. 88-on).

The Soviet Union, by mid-1944, had enjoyed overwhelming air superiority over the Luftwaffe. (So the Soviet Air Force could have swept the skies over Warsaw of the Stuka dive bombers. The Stukas were shooting and bombing, at will, the defenseless Polish military and civilians, moreover from low altitudes, thanks to a lack of fear of anti-aircraft weaponry, which the Warsaw insurgents did not possess.)

The Red Army also had crushing superiority in artillery. It could have destroyed the German artillery that was freely pounding defenseless Warsaw.

If nothing else, Stalin could have allowed the western Allied supply planes to land in an airfield, behind Soviet lines, in a timely manner. Instead, Stalin only allowed it once the Uprising was almost defeated.

The “lack of coordination” exculpation for Soviet inaction, to the extent that it is true at all, is also bogus. The uprising in Paris is instructive. Despite the lack of coordination of the Parisian insurgents with the Allied armies, and moreover despite a relatively small contingent of French insurgents facing a comparably-sized (to Warsaw) German garrison, the uprising was a success thanks to the fact that the Allied armies redirected their movements to liberate Paris once news came that the uprising had broken out.

THE LOSS IN LIVES

Leszek Zebrowski supports a total Warsaw Uprising death toll of as much as 200,000, although accurate numbers will never be known. (p. 12). However, the 200,000 figure does not include the multitudes of civilian Warsaw Poles, deported to Nazi German concentration camps after the capitulation of October 2, 1944, that died there before the end of WWII.

BLAMING THE POLISH VICTIMS

It was not only the Soviets that cynically blamed the ARMIA KRAJOWA for precipitating an Uprising that killed so many civilians. The cynical Germans, exhibiting crocodile tears, did also. For instance, German General Reiner Stahel, while already in Soviet captivity in 1945, waxed eloquent about his moral misgivings regarding the A. K. thrusting Warsaw’s population into a hopeless fight. (p. 200).

More recently, Piotr Zychowic, in his extraordinarily-shallow OBLED ‘ 44, took an even more comical “blame the victim” approach. He dismissed the Uprising as “a present to Stalin” , and, what’s more, “an irritation to the Western allies.” (p. 219).

TWO UPRISINGS IN WARSAW?

The Jews’ 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has been so overhyped that most Americans, upon hearing the phrase “Warsaw uprising” , think that it is referring to the Jews’ 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising instead of the incomparably-larger and organized Poles’ 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Zebrowski (pp. 137-on) challenges this. He suggests that an uprising is a valid one only when there is a definite military chain of command, which was not the case with the Jews’ insurgency in 1943. (p. 139). Zebrowski also cites Holocaust survivor Eli Gat, who considers the Jews’ Uprising greatly overhyped, as it never had more than a few hundred armed insurgents. (p. 140). [For more on this, see my review of Eli Gat’s NOT JUST ANOTHER HOLOCAUST BOOK].

THOSE IMMORTAL POLONOPHOBIC TALL TALES OF POLES KILLING FUGITIVE JEWS

Decades ago, Reuben Ainsztejn (p. 129) called the Warsaw Uprising insurgents “Polish fascists” , and made the amazing claim that the Polish soldiers killed thousands of fugitive Jews! Maybe in another universe.

More recently, Michal Cichy, writing in the George Soros funded leftist GAZETA WYBORCZA, repeated similar accusations. These have soundly been debunked by historian Zebrowski. See my review of his PASZKWIL WYBORCZEJ.

Another Poles-Killed-Jews accuser is caught in a flat lie. A certain Baruch writes as though he had seen everything. He also claims to have fled the Uprising for the Chojnowski forest, were he was accosted by NSZ commander Szary. Impossible. That NSZ commander, Szary, was not in any forest, and moreover had been killed in combat, in Warsaw itself, on the very first day of the Uprising! (p. 184).

MORE ON ADAM MICHNIK VEL SZECHTER AND HIS RAG

GAZETA WYBORCZA, a classic manifestation of cultural Marxism, runs down everything in Polish patriotism–in an obvious attempt to discredit it in the eyes of the Polish population. (p. 186). But wait it gets even better. GAZETA WYBORCZA equates Polish patriotism with racism. (p. 211).

Adam Michnik vel Szechter is the long-term editor of GAZETA WYBORCZA. As recently as 1978, which was only 25 years after the death of Stalin, Adam Michnik vel Szechter was still praising the Stalinists. (p. 174).

Michnik vel Szechter recently met with Zebrowski (p. 177)) and exhibited a dismissive attitude towards Michal Cichy’ s falsehoods. Adam Michnik vel Szechter showed not the slightest “moral reckoning” or ” coming to terms with the past” regarding the criminality of his brother, Communist Judge Stefan Michnik. [For one thing, Judge Stefan had sentenced Warsaw Uprising hero Andrzej Czaykowski, to death. (p. 173).]

PUTTING POLES AND NAZIS ON THE SAME SIDE

Towards the last months of WWII, German propaganda tried to entice the Poles to join them to fight the Soviets. (p. 244). The Poles refused. But no matter. Communists and other LEWAKS accused them anyway of doing so. [So, effectively, do some Jewish authors.]

ON THE EVE OF DEFEAT, THE GERMANS PROMISED TO RETURN. THEY DID

As the Germans were finally forced to retreat from Poland, under pressure from the advancing Red Army, their propaganda promised a German return. (pp. 209-210). They did–decades later–in the form of the European Union.

[My opinion: Polexit now!]