ARMIA KRAJOWA Well Paid Jan T. Gross Myth Szymanski

Warsaw Aflame, by Leszek Szymanski. 1973

Unfolding Polokaust. Polish Guerrilla Achievements. ARMIA KRAJOWA Well-Paid Debunked

Of the authors, Tadeusz Bielecki was a participant in the Home Army (Armia Krajowa; AK or A.K.). This work provides a year-by-year chronology of events, with special attention devoted to besieged Warsaw in the 1939 War, the Jews’ 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the Poles’ 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

THE 1939 GERMAN-SOVIET CONQUEST OF POLAND

No sooner had the Germans attacked Poland than they began a systematic war of genocide against the Polish nation. The 1939 casualties among Warsaw’s civilians, in terms of dead and wounded, came out to about 60,000, and about 12% of Warsaw was destroyed. Most of the deaths and destruction were not militarily necessary.

THE UNFOLDING POLOKAUST: ARISTOCIDE, OR “BEHEADING”

During the ensuing occupation, the intelligentsia (broadly-defined) was targeted for extermination. As noted by Wetzel and Hecht (Document 2325), the term “Polish intelligentsia” included not only those having a secondary or higher education, but also priests, teachers, businessmen, landowners, writers, journalists, etc. (pp. 29-30).

THE UNFOLDING POLOKAUST: CULTURAL GENOCIDE

Cultural genocide encompassed the closing of Polish institutions of learning, destruction and confiscation of various cultural materials, and much more. The authors add that: “The roadside shrines, crosses, and figures of saints were destroyed as being too Polish an element of the countryside.” (p. 48). [The informed reader may note the irony of modern-day Polish and non-Polish leftists and their ongoing efforts to purge any and all religious objects out of Polish public life.]

‘THE POLISH UNDERGROUND WAS WELL PAID” MALARKEY

The authors trace the growth of Polish Underground resistance, and describe the structure of the ARMIA KRAJOWA. Contrary to neo-Stalinist Jan T. Gross and his discredit-Poland-at-any-price silly argument that paid AK members received lucrative salaries, and were motivated by the money rather than by patriotism, the authors note that: “They received subsistence pay, and their job was more than nervewracking (nerve racking).” (p. 90). Yeah, no kidding. Finally, some common sense.

SOME POLISH GUERRILLA ACHIEVEMENTS

The deeds of the AK, from earliest 1941 until the end of June 1944, are summarized. (p. 136). I list only a few of them: 732 German trains derailed and thousands damaged, 1,167 fuel tanks (cisterns) destroyed, 122 military stores torched, 2,872 important factory machines damaged, tens of thousands of faulty munitions manufactured, a total of 25,145 acts of sabotage, and 5,733 assassinations and assassination attempts against selected Germans.

Assassinations of relatively high-profile Germans (e. g., Kutschera, Schultz) are featured. The capture of a fallen German V-2 rocket is also elaborated. (p. 132).

GERMAN TERROR ONLY INFLAMES POLISH RESISTANCE

The German terror included numerous murderous, collective reprisals against the Polish population. The authors thus quote an A.K. bulletin: “Will these crimes fulfill their purpose? Will they suppress anti-German resistance in this country? Only Prussian stupidity can have such hopes. The results of the massacre will be the exact opposite. The ranks of Underground Poland will be multiplied by hundreds of fanatical new avengers and the desire for just repayment and retribution will be strengthened in the nation.” (p. 112).

BARBAROUS GERMAN REPRISALS AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET-BETRAYED WARSAW UPRISING (1944)

The Warsaw Uprising is covered in considerable detail. The authors slant towards a skeptical view of the wisdom of its launching. However, the defeat of the Uprising was not the end, but only the beginning, of Warsaw’s agony at the hands of the Germans. The authors write: “House after house, block after block, was set on fire or blown up. About 40 to 50 percent of Warsaw’s demolition was wrought after her capitulation. The work was done by the special demolition troops, Vernichstungkommandos or Sprengkommandos. Statues and memorials were destroyed…Not even parks and gardens escaped the depredations of the barbarians…So went city archives in the Arsenal, Archives of New Acts and Archives of Old Acts…Hundreds of years of Polish history burned with the fires. Krasinski’s Library was destroyed, as well as other priceless collections of books, maps, documents, manuscripts, and paintings.” (p. 176).

POLISH AUTHORS, CONTRARY TO JUDEOCENTRIC MYTHOLOGY, DID NOT FORGET THE SUFFERING JEWS OR MIX THEM UP WITH SUFFERING POLES

This Polish-authored WARSAW AFLAME includes significant detail on the Nazi persecution of the Jews, and contrary to common myth, does not equate the experiences of Jews and Poles. Its discussion of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising includes detailed information on the actions of the AK in support of it. (pp. 108-109).