Polish Complicity in the Holocaust?

Grabowski Caught Yet Again

03/12/202003/12/2020Jan PeczkisHistoria, Książka, Polski, PopularneNo comments

Jan Grabowski’s Fraudulent “Analysis” of Jews and Poles in Wegrow County (DALEJ JEST NOC and NA POSTERUNKU) Exposed. Radziejowska

Making Germans Disappear. Transforming Other Germans Into Poles. Making Poles Into Comfortable “Bystanders” and “Spectators” (Holocaustspeak)

This scholarly article was translated into English and published in Perspectives on the 20^th Century 2:1-9. Historian Hanna Radziejowska is with the Pilecki Institute. Her article is an in-depth analysis of Jan Grabowski’s disastrous portrayal of Polish conduct, towards the fugitive Jews of Wegrow County, in his DALEJ JEST NOC and NA POSTERUNKU.

This research is based on newly-discovered archival materials, from the German archives, that have been ignored by Grabowski in his anti-Polish tomes.

BLAMING POLES FOR GERMAN CRIMES: GRABOWSKI VAPORIZES THE GERMAN OCCUPANTS OF WEGROW COUNTY

Grabowski acts the magician as he makes the German authorities almost disappear–in order that the entire culpability for killing fugitive Jews falls on the Poles. The clever way that Grabowski does this is recounted by Radziejowska, “In the appendix to his article in Dalej jest noc, Grabowski cites a list of 26 German officers who were supposedly responsible for crimes throughout the entire Węgrów County, and he marks only two posts with German units on the adjoined map. In this way, the reader is given the impression that the entire terror apparatus was made up of the Blue Police and the volunteer fire brigade subordinated to the occupier, as well as the Polish residents.” (p. 6).

The facts are very different. From German archives, it is evident that the German terror apparatus consisted of at least 300 Germans. (p. 6). And this does not include the German administration, bureaucratic officials, etc., many of whom were involved in the exploitation and robbery of the Poles of Wegrow County. (p. 6). So much for Grabowski’s “invisible” Germans!

Furthermore, Grabowski’s signification and demonization of the POLICJA GRANATOWA and the fire brigades is not even supported by many of the Jewish testimonies from Wegrow County. The author comments, “Out of nearly 40 reports about Węgrów and the surrounding area, however, six Jews reported having received help from firefighters or Blue Policemen, and the Blue Police and fire brigades do not feature at all in the extensive testimony of Cyra Rubinstein, given in the 1960s in Tel Aviv and describing the liquidation of Węgrów on 22 September 1942.” (p. 7).

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Jan Grabowski has been playing fast and loose with the Jew-killing events in Wegrow County in many other ways. For examples, see:

DALEJ JEST NOC Jew Killing Pole Accusations Debunked. Muszynski Gontarczyk

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/dalej-jest-noc-jew-killing-pole-accusations-debunked-muszynski/embed/#?secret=LcS4XaUoW0

Grabowski’s Fraudulent “Analysis” of the German-Ruled Polish Blue Police (Policja Granatowa) Exposed. Gontarczyk

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2020/06/03/grabowskis-fraudulent-analysis-of-the-polish-blue-police-policja-granatowa/embed/#?secret=TMD8yskMtq

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BLAMING POLES FOR GERMAN CRIMES: GRABOWSKI MISREPRESENTS VOLKSDEUTSCHE (POLONIZED GERMANS) AS ETHNIC POLES

Consider the POLICJA GRANATOWA. In his DALEJ JEST NOC, Grabowski describes Blue Policeman Lucjan Matusiak as a sadistic Jew-killer. However, Matusiak was an equal-opportunity killer: He also killed Poles. Pointedly, however, Matusiak was not even a Pole! Radziejowska comments, “One of the testimonies from a Pole beaten and tortured by Matusiak states that he, Matusiak, declared during the interrogation that Poland had finally ceased to exist and that he spoke of himself as a German citizen. In the testimonies uncovered in German Laender archives by the Pilecki Institute, we find two separate testimonies describing Matusiak as a Volksdeutsche…” (p. 5).

If it serves Grabowski’s Polonophobic agenda to misrepresent Matusiak as a Pole, why not? Moreover, this is not the first time that Grabowski has pulled off this stunt. He has elsewhere transformed a German Jew killer (Engelbert Guzdek) into a Pole. See:

Grabowski JUDENJAGD Debunked in Detail. Jewish Banditry. Musial

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/grabowski-judenjagd-corrected-musial/embed/#?secret=OAie9FTNXM

BLAMING POLES FOR GERMAN CRIMES: BROAD-BASED IGNORING OF THE JEW-KILLING ROLE OF LOCAL POLONIZED GERMANS

The foregoing considerations can be generalized, and are ably summarized by Radziejowska, “It is worth posing an important question at this point: were all the collaborators Poles, and did they consider themselves Poles? The role of the Volksdeutscher and the German minority which helped to build the terror apparatus when the Germans invaded Poland – their knowledge of the local community and language was often the main source of intelligence on the situation in villages and towns – is sorely lacking in research on the terror of the German occupation.” (p. 5). Good points!

BLAMING POLES FOR GERMAN CRIMES: GRABOWSKI IGNORES THE GERMAN TERROR THAT POLES DAILY FACED

The standard narrative is entirely Judeocentric. It treats Jews as the only victims, and relegates Poles to comfortable “spectators” or “bystanders” (or worse). No attempt is even made to factor the way that Poles were traumatized as they dealt with fugitive Jews. Radziejowska comments, “The accounts discovered by the Pilecki Institute in the German archives reveal a picture of the death that loomed every time German gendarmes came to a village. They killed for the mere suspicion of sheltering Jews…Franciszek’s daughter, testified that she was beaten up by a German gendarme who, pointing to her little brother who had been doused in petrol and set on fire by another German, yelled at her “where are the Jews?” (The family was not hiding Jews). The Germans murdered Poles for not reporting for forced labor on time, for aiding Jews or Soviet POWs, for not releasing required quotas of food, or simply for no reason at all.” (p. 8).

BLAMING POLES FOR GERMAN CRIMES: “POLISH GUILT” BASED ON FORCED CONFESSIONS

The author writes, “The post-war “August decree” trial of the Blue Policemen Władysław Królik, Antoni Iwanek, Jan Grajewski and Piotr Grochal for the murder of Jews (the Rubins, husband and wife, and three other people) hiding in the house of Aleksandra Janusz in the Węgrów county is in places controversial for various reasons and certainly requires separate research and discussion. In the trial documentation, we find notes that the interviewees want to change their testimony because they were beaten and tortured by the investigators.” (pp. 4-5).

BLAMING POLES FOR GERMAN CRIMES: GRABOWSKI TAKES IRONIC ADVANTAGE OF POLISH TRIALS AND THE LACK OF GERMAN TRIALS

The German perpetrators have gone scot-free. Radziejowska comments, “All the proceedings in West Germany which concern crimes against Jews and Poles in Węgrów are concluded with a note that the relevant investigation was discontinued, usually due to the difficulty in locating certain individuals or because of ‘insufficient evidence.’” (p. 4).

She adds that, “Comparing post-war justice in the context of Węgrów and the vicinity, we must note that despite the Communist regime and the indisputable complications of the “August” trials and the persecution of the Polish underground, Poland did much to punish criminals and collaborators, while the German state did not punish anyone, despite the fact that numerous military archives held the records and the data of former soldiers from many various units. As a result, those who punished the criminal acts of collaborators are accused of complicity in the Holocaust on the basis of the court files, while those who implemented terror and enforced the policy of exterminating Jews have become obscured in the background of ‘Polish collaborators’.” (p. 6).

The result of this is a twisted, German-whitewashing narrative. The author sagely concludes, “The German criminals are innocent, and the only legally responsible parties for the death of Polish Jews who were hiding and escaping from transports were the Polish collaborators, usually peasants.” (p. 5).

Let us take this further. Contrary to the “Germans overcame their history” media spin, the Germans have hardly “come to terms with the past”. They actually have done a very poor job of bringing their own Nazi perpetrators to justice! See:

German Repentance Insincere. De-Nazification Hollow. Teschke

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/german-contrition-dubious-teschke/embed/#?secret=VPZtFR9mSp

Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. Nazi Leniency to Jews: Reclassifications as Mischlinge. German Repentance Insincere. Marwell

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2020/09/03/holocaust-survivor-testimony-unreliable-nazi-leniency-to-jews-reclassifications-as-mischlinge-german-repentance-insincere-marwell/embed/#?secret=QuLPbmDlfi

German Repentance Insincere. Was Top Nazi Heydrich Jewish? Wannsee Demystified. Dederichs

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/german-contrition-dubious-dederichs/embed/#?secret=HHCbgtMjW5

German Repentance Insincere. Holocaust Survivor Testimony Unreliable. Stangneth

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ORIGINAL SOURCE: https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2020/11/28/jan-grabowskis-fraudulent-analysis-of-jews-and-poles-in-wegrow-county-dalej-jest-noc-and-na-posterunku-exposed-radziejowska/

JAN PECZKIS

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