Anniversary of the Warsaw uprising of the Polish Home Army 1 August – 2 October 1944

Posted by DanielS on Thursday, 02 August 2018 06:10.

Ewa Faryaszewska (1920-1944) - Museum of Warsaw, Public Domain

Generally speaking, I don’t like to go into World War II, because I view it as a nasty history for Europeans, about which few people alive had anything to do - therefore, I prefer to uncouple the ethnonationalist cause from it - and especially from Nazism - for the sake of Germans perhaps especially. However, because a needless and counterproductive tendency to try to fully exonerate and redeem Hitler and the Nazis persists - e.g., Mark Collette and “ComfyTangent” recommending that people attend to the schlock revisionism of “The Greatest Story Never Told”; David Duke persisting in blaming anyone but Hitler for WWII - there is yet need to address the issue enough to put it to rest for anyone reasonable - not something to expect from the Stormfront crowd, e.g; and many have not yet gotten Dr. Lindtner’s message regarding the disingenuousness of Faurisson and other revisionists. We will be engaging podcasts on the matter with a Swedish colleague, et al. in days to come to straighten-out the record on WWII - why White Nationalism need not and should no be burdened with Hitler/Nazi association, denial, let alone its idealization and idolatry.

In the meantime, while you will hear a great deal from American White Nationalists about the terrible fire-bombing of Dresden, you can expect them to remain irresponsibly silent (or make revolting excuses) regarding events like the quelling of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

If anyone has better information to add, they are welcome, but again, because I don’t like going into WWII history, at this point I’ll merely set forth a textual sketch of the event from Wikipedia and this video:

Polish resistance:
15,200 killed and missing[7]
5,000 WIA[7]
15,000 POW (Incl. capitulation agreement)[7]

Berlin 1st Army: 5,660 casualties[7]
Warsaw Airlift: 41 downed aircraft German forces:
8,000–17,000 killed and missing
9,000 WIA
150,000–200,000 civilians killed,[8] 700,000 expelled from the city.[7]



Poland 1944–45: The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. The uprising was timed to coincide with the retreat of the German forces from Poland ahead of the Soviet advance.[9] While approaching the eastern suburbs of the city, the Red Army temporarily halted combat operations, enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and to raze the city in reprisal. The Uprising was fought for 63 days with little outside support. It was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.[10]



The Uprising began on 1 August 1944 as part of a nationwide Operation Tempest, launched at the time of the Soviet Lublin–Brest Offensive. The main Polish objectives were to drive the Germans out of Warsaw while helping the Allies defeat Germany. An additional, political goal of the Polish Underground State was to liberate Poland’s capital and assert Polish sovereignty before the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation could assume control. Other immediate causes included a threat of mass German round-ups of able-bodied Poles for “evacuation”; calls by Radio Moscow’s Polish Service for uprising; and an emotional Polish desire for justice and revenge against the enemy after five years of German occupation.[11][12]



Initially, the Poles established control over most of central Warsaw, but the Soviets ignored Polish attempts to maintain radio contact with them and did not advance beyond the city limits. Intense street fighting between the Germans and Poles continued. By 14 September, the eastern bank of the Vistula River opposite the Polish resistance positions was taken over by the Polish troops fighting under the Soviet command; 1,200 men made it across the river, but they were not reinforced by the Red Army. This, and the lack of air support from the Soviet base five-minute flying time away, led to allegations that Stalin tactically halted his forces to let the operation fail and the Polish resistance to be crushed. Arthur Koestler said the Soviet disposition will rank on an ethical level with Lidice.”[13]



Winston Churchill pleaded with Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt to help Britain’s Polish allies, to no avail.[14] Then, without Soviet air clearance, Churchill sent over 200 low-level supply drops by the Royal Air Force, the South African Air Force, and the Polish Air Force under British High Command, in an operation known as the Warsaw Airlift. Later, after gaining Soviet air clearance, the U.S. Army Air Force sent one high-level mass airdrop as part of Operation Frantic.



Although the exact number of casualties remains unknown, it is estimated that about 16,000 members of the Polish resistance were killed and about 6,000 badly wounded.

85% of Warsaw was destroyed deliberately by Hitler’s order that the city be razed.

In addition, between 150,000 and 200,000 Polish civilians died, mostly from mass executions. Jews being harboured by Poles were exposed by German house-to-house clearances and mass evictions of entire neighbourhoods. German casualties totalled over 8,000 soldiers killed and missing, and 9,000 wounded. During the urban combat approximately 25% of Warsaw’s buildings were destroyed. Following the surrender of Polish forces, German troops systematically levelled another 35% of the city block by block. Together with earlier damage suffered in the 1939 invasion of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, over 85% of the city was destroyed by January 1945, when the course of the events in the Eastern Front forced the Germans to abandon the city.



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Posted by #WolaMassacre on Mon, 06 Aug 2018 06:03 | #

On August 5th 1944, the #WolaMassacre began.

       
Nazi soldiers killed 40 000 - 60 000 civilians in just one district of #Warsaw between August 5-7.

The bodies were burned on site. Their ashes weighed 12 tons.

Unlike #BabiYar & #RapeOfNanking, the massacre is unknown in the West.

Institute of National Remembrance
‏ @ipngovpl_eng

#WarsawUprising: From 5-7 VIII 1944, 40,000 to 60,000 residents of Warsaw’s Wola district were killed during executions carried out by Nazis. Similar mass crimes were committed in the district of Ochota by Nazis and allied #SS units.#WolaMassacre #OchotaMassacre


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Posted by Warsaw Nouveau on Mon, 06 Aug 2018 06:45 | #


Warsaw had among the largest number of art nouveau buildings of all cities in the world.

       

                     

Wartime Losses of Private Art Collections of Warsaw Residents



Warsaw’s lost architecture portrayed in miniature


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Posted by Bullshit promoted by Linder at VNN on Sat, 08 Sep 2018 08:50 | #

The kind of shit that Linder is promoting at VNN:

VNN:

Poland Lost Millions of People, Billions of Dollars Under Nazi Occupation

Posted by Socrates in communism-as-Jewish, communist brutality, history, History for newbies, Hitler, Poland, Socrates, World War II at 4:54 pm | Permanent Link

Who cares? The Nazi occupation of Poland only lasted 6 years (1939-1945; and it was Poland’s own fault it was occupied, since it wouldn’t give back certain areas of land to Adolf Hitler, e.g., Danzig). Poland was later enslaved by Jewish communists for 44 years! [1]. Why don’t we talk about that, hmmmm? [Article].

[1] Jewish communists such as Jacob Berman, Hilary Minc, Anatol Fejgin, Jozef Swiatlo, Roman Zambrowski and others terrorized Poland after 1945

  3 Responses to “Poland Lost Millions of People, Billions of Dollars Under Nazi Occupation”

      Zerstorer Says:
      5 September, 2018 at 6:46 pm

      What people have forgotten is Poland was carrying out ethnic cleansing in Danzig against the ethnic German population, which prompted Hitler’s invasion of Poland to rescue the German population from being butchered and murdered by the Poles. I have a book on the subject written in 1940, “Polish acts of atrocity against the German minority in Poland.”

      Pierre Says:
      6 September, 2018 at 8:13 am

      In his book, The Myth of German Villainy, Benton Bradberry states that something like 50 000 Germans were killed by the Poles. This is what motivated the German attack of Poland which started WWII. This is after Hitler tried everything possible to negotiate a deal with the poles to have access to their city of Dantzig which was separated from Germany by the Versailles Treaty which ended WWI.

      Tim Says:
      7 September, 2018 at 9:49 am

      Another anti-Hitler hit piece from the (AP) AshkeNAZI Press. What did you expect?


“It was Poland’s own fault it was occupied, since it wouldn’t give back certain areas of land to Adolf Hitler, e.g., Danzig”

It wasn’t Poland’s to give one way or the other. The Versailles Treaty made it a neutral city as it has been at times in history.

“Benton Bradberry states that something like 50 000 Germans were killed by the Poles”

Is that true?

Look at this as an honest person and try not to laugh that people would believe this, from the cited book, “The Myth of German Villainy” by Brenton Bradburry.

It is estimated that some 58,000 German nationals were killed during this period by marauding mobs,  encouraged by the Polish government.  The German government lodged dozens of formal complaint with the League of Nations, but with no results. Hitler became increasingly distressed about it and said to the British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson on August 25, 1939: “Poland’s provocations have become intolerable.” Typical of these massacres was that which occurred in the German town of Bromberg, in the Polish Corridor. In this massacre, called “Bloody Sunday,” 5,500 ethnic Germans were slaughtered like pigs. Children were nailed to barns, women were raped and hacked to death with axes, men were beaten and hacked to death. 328 Germans were herded into Bromberg’s Protestant church, after which the church was set on fire. All 328 burned to death.

Operation Himmler. Ok that’s Wikipedia, but at least it puts you well within the ball park, whereas Bradburry buys Goebbels utterly fallacious propaganda.

* Regarding the Bromberg incident, it happened AFTER the Nazis had already invaded - it didn’t happen the way Nazi propaganda alleges; and for better or worse, there were reasons for the executions (e.g., their being suspected of sniping and Nazi partisan fifth column operations); but finally, the Nazis more than made up for it, executing ten times as many Polish civilians there in retaliation.

 


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Posted by mancinblack on Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:10 | #

“Seventy three years after WWII, people in Poland are still talking about our suffering and our losses. It is part of our identity, so to say. And in Poland, we think our losses were much bigger than those of other countries. But if you look at what Germany has compensated other Western European countries for their losses, like France or Belgium, for example, and what it has compensated Poland for our losses, you will see a discrepancy”. Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputawicz  

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/poland-we-have-the-right-to-discuss-reparations-says-foreign-minister-a-1226483.html


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Posted by mancinblack on Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:20 | #

What a pile of rubble looked like in 1900. Colour tinted photographs of some of Warsaw’s landmark buildings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEckChib8DU


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Posted by "Truth Seeker", "Major Historian" or Maybe... on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 02:53 | #

J.F. Gariepy irresponsibly helps Thomas Goodrich to promote long discredited Nazi propaganda to the detriment of ethnonational solidarity. Not only that, for whatever perceived grievances on the Nazi German side, there is no historical context provided of the other side’s grievances.

Operation Himmler, Part II. J.F. Gariepy interviews “the major historian” Thomas Goodrich:








Quora


Is there any evidence about the Danzig massacres and the killing of more than 58000 Germans before the start of WW2?

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Andrew Warinner

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The killing of 58,000 Germans in the run up to World War II was retailed in a “report” (scare quotes intentional) by one Hans Schadewaldt published in 1940:

More than 58,000 were lost by the German minority in Poland during the days of their liberation from the Polish yoke, as far as canbe ascertained at present. The Polish nation must for all time be held responsible for this appalling massacre consequent upon that Polish reign of terror. Up to November 17, 1939, the closing day for the documentary evidence contained in the first edition of this book, 5,437 murders, committed by members of the Polish armed forces and by Polish civilians on men, women and children of the German minority had already been irrefutably proved. It was quite apparent even then that the actual number of murders far exceeded this figure, and by February 1, 1940, the total number of identified bodies of the German minority had increased to 12,857. Official investigations carried out since the outbreak of the German-Polish war have shown that to these 12,857 killed there must be added more than 45,000 missing, all of whom must be accounted dead since no trace of them can be found. Thus the victims belonging to the German minority in Poland already now total over 58,000. Even this appalling figure by no means covers the sum total of the losses sustained by the German minority. There can be no doubt at all that investigations which are still being conducted will disclose many more thousand dead and wounded. The following description of the Polish atrocities which is not only confined to murders and mutilations but includes other deeds of violence such as maltreatment, rape, robbery and arson applies to only a small section of the terrible events for which irrefutable and official evidence is here established.

Hans Schadewaldt 1940 [the Polish Atrocitites Against the German Minority in Poland]

As you would expect to find in a work of Nazi propaganda, the report is long on outrage, short on substantive evidence and obfuscatory about when, where and who did all this killing.

Setting aside the claim that in 1940 there was no trace of 45,000 ethnic Germans (Schadewaldt provides no details of where, who or how), what about the 12,857 murders (a suspiciously precise number)? Here too Schadewaldt is similarly vague, long on outrage and very short on detail.

We now know that the Abwehr and SS organized clandestine Volksdeutsche groups in Poland prior to the war to provide intelligence and to carry out provocations on orders. When the Wehrmacht invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, they went in with a comprehensive list of Polish politicians, civic leaders, religious leaders and intelligentsia to be arrested, much of which was contributed by Volksdeutsche groups.

In retrospect it is difficult to distinguish what was manufactured wholesale for propaganda, violence resulting from organized provocations and how much real ethnic violence there was against ethnic Germans in Poland before and after the outbreak of World War II.

The real question is why recycled Nazi propaganda has any sort of currency today and why it should have any credibility beyond your typical Internet lunatic fringe.

 


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Posted by ...and maybe on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 02:59 | #

Area Pole, Historian (2006-present)
Answered Apr 3 2017

One should mention the German nationalist slogan of the 19th: “Drang nach Osten”. Germany since the 19th century appealed to settle Polish lands by German colonistsnp Such views were, for example: ostpreußischen Abgeordneten Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan, Schriftsteller Gustav Freytag, Friedrich List, Friedrich Ratzel.

In 1926 appeared a book written by Hans Grimm - “Volk ohne Raum”. The usage of the slogan is most known for its usage by the Nazis. In Nazi propaganda the slogan was repeatedly used to at least justify or legitimize the German conquest of Poland and the Soviet Union and for the massive territorial expansion into Eastern Europe to ensure Germanic Aryan Herrenvolk (“Aryan master race”) rule over Poles and Russians who the Nazis considered “non Aryan” and subhuman. Slavs as non-Aryans were to be ethnically cleansed and exterminated, and their territories settled by Germans. From the very early days of the Nazi party, the notion that the Germans were people without living space and had a right to expand was widespread among German nationalists and right-wing organisations.

On February 24, 1920, Hitler proclaimed the party program and one of the 25 points of the National Socialist Program stated: “We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.“In order to justify their Drang nach Osten (“desire to push East”).

Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933–1945, called for a Drang nach Osten to acquire territory for German colonists at the expense of central and eastern European nations (Lebensraum). The term by then had gained enough currency to appear in foreign newspapers without explanation. His eastern campaigns during World War II were initially successful with the conquests of Poland, the Baltic countries, Belarus, Ukraine and much of European Russia by the Wehrmacht; Generalplan Ost was designed to eliminate the native Slavic peoples from these lands and replace them with Germans. (source: HITLER’S PLANS FOR EASTERN EUROPE, Selections from Janusz Gumkowkski and Kazimierz Leszczynski POLAND UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION)

Nazi Germany employed the slogan in calling the Czechs a “Slav bulwark against the Drang nach Osten” in the 1938 Sudeten crisis. (source: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk, Anthony Mango, Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements, 2003, p. 579)

Secondly: “The German concept of Lebensraum” - Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power Lebensraum became an ideological principle of Nazism, and provided justification for the German territorial expansion into East-Central Europe. The Nazi Generalplan Ost policy (the Master Plan for the East) was based on its tenets. It stipulated that most of the indigenous populations of Eastern Europe would have to be removed permanently (either through mass deportation to Siberia, death, or enslavement) including Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and other Slavic nations considered racially inferior. The Third Reich aimed at repopulating these lands with Germanic colonists in the name of Lebensraum during World War II and thereafter. The entire populations were to be decimated by starvation, allowing for their own agricultural surplus to feed Germany. (source: André Mineau (2004). Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity. Rodopi. p. 180.,André Mineau (2004). Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity. Rodopi. p. 180. / Shelley Baranowski Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. Cambridge University Press. 2011, p. 141. / Jeremy Noakes (March 30, 2011). “BBC - History - World Wars: Hitler and ‘Lebensraum’ in the East”).

Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (1925; My Struggle), presented his conception of Lebensraum as the philosophic basis for the Greater Germanic Reich who were destined to colonize Eastern Europe — especially Ukraine in Soviet Russia — and so resolve the problems of overpopulation, and that the European states had to accede to his geopolitical demands.

The Nazi usages of the term Lebensraum were explicitly racist, to justify the mystical right of the “racially superior” Germanic peoples (Herrenvolk) to fulfil their cultural destiny at the expense of “racially inferior” peoples (Untermenschen), such as the Slavs of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the other non–Germanic peoples of “the East”. Based upon Johan Rudolf Kjellén’s geopolitical interpretation of Friedrich Ratzel’s human-geography term, the Nazi régime (1933–45) established Lebensraum as the racist rationale of the foreign policy by which they began the Second World War, on 1 September 1939, in effort to realise the Greater Germanic Reich at the expense of the societies of Eastern Europe. (source: Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th Ed., vol. 6, p. 901)

Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf “the Zweites Buch” from 1928: “The National Socialist Movement, on the contrary, will always let its foreign policy be determined by the necessity to secure the space necessary to the life of our Folk. It knows no Germanising or Teutonising, as in the case of the national bourgeoisie, but only the spread of its own Folk. It will never see in the subjugated, so called Germanised, Czechs or Poles a national, let alone Folkish, strengthening, but only the racial weakening of our Folk.” (source: p.26) & “The Folkish State, conversely, must under no conditions annex Poles with the intention of wanting to make Germans out of them some day. On the contrary, it must muster the determination either to seal off these alien racial elements, so that the blood of its own Folk will not be corrupted again, or it must, without further ado, remove them and hand over the vacated territory to its own National Comrades.” (source: p.29)

On 3 February 1933, at his initial meeting with the generals and admirals of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler said that the conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe, and its “ruthless Germanisation”, were the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy.
(source:Weinberg, Gerhard The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1970 pp. 26–27).

Such official racist perspectives for the establishment of German Lebensraum allowed the Nazis to unilaterally launch a war of aggression ( Blitzkrieg ) against the countries of Eastern Europe. Also until 1937 in German rearmament program well under way that he began to speak about the need for living space again. (Source: Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic, p.167)


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Posted by also on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 03:31 | #

Ibid

It is worth mentioning that Adolf Hitler had planned to attack the USSR since the 30s. In his secret plans, Hitler also considered Poland as a potential ally as indicated by German diplomatic documents of the times.

The war with Stalin was to Hitler’s realization of the idea of ​​“Drang nach Osten” in order to gain the necessary German “living space” (Lebensraum).

Poland was perceived by Hitler as the “bastion of anti-Bolshevism”, and the best example of this was the war in 1920 by the Polish Army of the Bolshevik offensive on the Vistula.

Hitler stated in public statements that Poland was a key partner of the Third Reich in the Eastern policy - not only because of proximity to the USSR, but also because of ideological differences between the two states. The vision of a future, joint Polish-German conflict with the USSR Hitler opposed the plans of the German generals to attack Poland in the wake of the revisionist concept of fighting the “dictator of Versailles”.

On January 28, 1934, the “Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact” was signed in Berlin for 10 years.

Adolf Hitler in the Reichstag on January 30, 1934 said: “Germany and Poland will have to come to terms with their existence, so it is necessary to shape a state that will give the two nations the greatest possible benefit and which will last for a thousand years.”

In May 1934, a Fuhrer adviser on foreign policy matters Alfred Rosenberg postulated a joint attack by Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom on the Soviet Union, and its division into several spheres of influence. According to this idea Poland would get Ukraine and the British would have secured their oil interests in the area of ​​southern Russia.

One of the greatest advocates of the anti-Soviet German and Polish military pact was Hermann Goering. He said during his visit to Białowieża in January 1935, the Alliance of both states was to be, in Goering’s view, a preventive step to “defend against Russian expansion” to the West.

For months Berlin reiterated the proposals of a military alliance with Warsaw. After the conclusion of the anti-Comintern pact by Italy and Japan on November 25, 1936 (Italy joined him a year later), Hitler hoped that Britain and Poland would also join him in the future.

Shadow on the relations between Germany and Poland, however, were cast by the issue of Gdańsk and the so-called The Pomeranian corridor, whose connections to the Reich demanded Hitler. In return for territorial concessions, he offered to Poland, among others. Prolonging the nonaggression pact for the next 25 years.

In 1939, Hitler joins Austria and Sudetenland to the III Reich and took all of Czechoslovakia and Klaipeda County in 1939 without consulting Poland.

March 26, 1939 Poland rejects German territorial demands.

March 31, 1939, Britain gave Poland guarantees of military aid in the event of a conflict with the III Reich.

April 3, 1939, Hitler ordered preparations for an attack on Poland (a plan codenamed “White Variant” - Fall Weiss).

April 28, 1939, Germany renounce a nonaggression pact with Poland, deciding on a future war.

August 23, 1939. In order to avoid a war on two fronts, Hitler was in contact with Stalin, but the treaty of the Fourth Partition of Poland (the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact) was only temporary, Hitler’s priority was still a future attack on the USSR.

(source: Rolf-Dieter Müller Enemy in the East: Hitler’s Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union, 2015)

So the above. Hitler invented the plan called: “Operation Himmler” it was a false flag project planned by Nazi Germany to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which was subsequently used by Nazi propaganda to justify the invasion of Poland. This included staging false attacks on themselves using innocent people or concentration camp prisoners. Operation Himmler was arguably the first act of the Second World War in Europe. (source:Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career, p.76).

For months prior to the 1939 invasion, German newspapers and politicians like Adolf Hitler had carried out a national and international propaganda campaign accusing Polish authorities of organizing or tolerating violent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Germans living in Poland.

The plan, named after its originator, Heinrich Himmler, was supervised by Reinhard Heydrich and managed by Heinrich Müller. The goal of this false flag project was to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany, which could be used to justify the German invasion of Poland. Hitler also might have hoped to confuse Poland’s allies, the United Kingdom and France, into delaying or stopping their declaration of war on Germany. (source: Address by Adolf Hitler - September 1, 1939; retrieved from the archives of the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School. / Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression, Volume VI. Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, 1946, p.188 / 20 Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 4; Thursday, 20 December 1945. The Avalon Project. Retrieved 4 August 2007. / Gerald Reitlinger, The SS, Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945, Da Capo Press, 1989, p.122 / Steven J. Zaloga, Poland 1939: The Birth of Blitzkrieg, Osprey Publishing, 2002, p.39)

Examples:

The German troops, dressed in Polish uniforms, would storm various border buildings, scare the locals with inaccurate shots, carry out acts of vandalism, and retreat, leaving behind dead bodies in Polish uniforms. (source: Martin Allen, Himmler’s Secret War: The Covert Peace Negotiations of Heinrich Himmler, 2005, p.51).

The bodies were in fact prisoners from concentration camps; they were dressed in Polish uniforms, killed (by a lethal injection, then shot for appearance) and left behind. They were described in plans as “Konserve”, i.e. ‘canned goods’ (which also led to the more informal name of the operation, Operation Konserve). (source: John S. Craig, Peculiar Liaisons in War, Espionage, and Terrorism of the Twentieth Century, 2005, p.180 / Christopher J. Ailsby, The Third Reich Day by Day, 2001, p.112)

The strategic railway at Jablunka Pass (Jabłonków Incident), located on the border between Poland and Czechoslovakia (source: Jorgensen, Christer, “Hitler’s Espionage Machine”, Spellmount Ltd., 2004)

The German radio station Sender Gleiwitz (Gliwice) (this was arguably the most notable of Operation Himmler operations, vide: “Gleiwitz incident”) (source: Christopher J. Ailsby, The Third Reich Day by Day, 2001)

The German customs station at Hochlinden (today part of Rybnik-Stodoły) (source: Christopher J. Ailsby, The Third Reich Day by Day, 2001)

The forest service station in Pitschen (Byczyna) (Martin Allen, Himmler’s Secret War: The Covert Peace Negotiations of Heinrich Himmler, 2005, p.51)

The communications station at Neubersteich (“Nieborowitzer Hammer” before 12 February 1936, now Kuznia Nieborowska)

The railroad station in Alt-Eiche (Smolniki), Rosenberg in Westpreußen district

A woman and her companion in Katowice

By mid-1939, thousands of Polish Volksdeutsche had been secretly prepared for sabotage and guerrilla warfare by the Breslau (Wrocław) office of the Abwehr; the purpose of their activities was to provoke anti-German reprisals that could be claimed as provocations by the Germans. Those German agents indeed cooperated with the German forces during the invasion of Poland, leading to some reprisals, which were highly exaggerated by the German Nazi propaganda. One of the most notable cases of such a scenario was reportedly carried out during Bydgoszcz Bloody Sunday. (source: Perry Biddiscombe, Alexander Perry, Werwolf!: The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946, 1998, p. 27 / Richard Blanke, The American Historical Review, Vol. 97, No. 2. Apr. 1992, pp. 580-582.)

From 1 September 1939 massacres of civilians began. The Germans did not spare anyone, killed old people, women and children. (vide: “Operation Tannenberg”) Captured soldiers were stripped of their uniforms and shot as partisans.

During World War II, six million Polish citizens died between 1939 and 1945; an estimated 4,900,000 to 5,700,000 (45% Polish Jews) were killed by German forces and 150,000 to one million by Soviet forces. Jews in Poland suffered the worst percentage loss of life compared to all other national and ethnic groups. The vast majority were civilians. On average, 2,800 Polish citizens died per day during its occupation.

 


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Posted by Kalisz on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:05 | #

Kakisz massacre

Destruction of Kalisz


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Posted by Rape of Belgium on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:29 | #

Rape of Belgium:

War Crimes:

In some places, particularly Liège, Andenne and Leuven, but firstly Dinant, there is evidence that the violence against civilians was premeditated.[4]:573–4 However, in Dinant, the German army believed the inhabitants were as dangerous as the French soldiers themselves.[5][6] German troops, afraid of Belgian guerrilla fighters, or francs-tireurs, burned homes and executed civilians throughout eastern and central Belgium, including Aarschot (156 dead), Andenne (211 dead), Seilles (fr), Tamines (383 dead), and Dinant (674 dead).[7] The victims included men, women, and children.[8] In the Province of Brabant, nuns were ordered to strip under the pretext that they were spies or men in disguise. However, there is no evidence that nuns were violated.[4]:164 In and around Aarschot, between August 19 and the recapture of the town by September 9, women were repeatedly victimised. Rape was nearly as ubiquitous as murder, arson and looting, if never as visible.[4]:164–165

On August 25, 1914, the German army ravaged the city of Leuven, deliberately burning the university’s library of 300,000 medieval books and manuscripts with gasoline, killing 248 residents,[9] and expelling the entire population of 10,000. However, contrary to what many believe and write, it was not the books of the Old University of Leuven which disappeared in smoke; indeed, in 1797, the manuscripts and most valuable works of this university were transported[10] to the National Library in Paris and much of the old library was transferred to the Central School of Brussels, the official and legal successor of the Old University of Leuven. The library of the Central School of Brussels had about 80,000 volumes, which then came to enrich the library of Brussels, and then the future Royal Library of Belgium where they are still. Civilian homes were set on fire and citizens often shot where they stood.[11] Over 2000 buildings were destroyed and large quantities of strategic materials, foodstuffs, and modern industrial equipment were looted and transferred to Germany in 1914 alone. These actions brought worldwide condemnation.[12] (There were also several friendly fire incidents between groups of German soldiers during the confusion.[6])

Overall, the Germans were responsible for the deaths of 23,700 Belgian civilians, (6,000 Belgians killed, 17,700 died during expulsion, deportation, in prison or sentenced to death by court) and caused further nonfatalities of 10,400 permanent and 22,700 temporary invalids, with 18,296 children becoming war orphans. Military losses were 26,338 killed, died from injuries or accidents, 14,029 died from disease, or went missing.[2]


Professor John Horne: On the 25th of August, there was the sound of fighting. German soldiers shooting at what they claim was an insurrection. At about 11:00 in the evening, this beautiful university library was broken into by the German soldiers and deliberately set fire. One young Jesuit, Father Dupierreux, had written in his notebook, that he thought that the Germans, in burning down the library, had done something as barbaric as the destruction of the library of Alexandria in antiquity. This notebook was seized by German soldiers and he was summarily executed.

By the 29th or 30th, you have to imagine Louvain as an almost empty town. The population that hadn’t been deported gradually straggled back in to find between 1,500 to 2,000 buildings destroyed. Well over 240 of the townspeople killed.

       

Max Hastings: All armies in all wars can behave very badly. What seems different about what happened in Belgium in 1914? It wasn’t just a question of a few odd soldiers brutally murdering a few civilians. They were systematically shooting them in scores and sometimes in hundreds as hostages.

Professor John Horne: You’re quite right. What we’ve just described in Louvain was a terrible incident, immediately grabbed the international headlines; but it was typical of something that happened across the whole invasion front in Belgium and also in Eastern France. And it wasn’t the worst case in terms of the death rates.

Dinant was destroyed as a town, 674 of its inhabitants executed two days before..

Max Hastings: In cold blood?

Professor John Horne: In cold blood.

       

       
        Dinant

        The Necessary War, Max Hastings.

        The Necessary War, by Max Hastings.


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Posted by Professor John Horne on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:35 | #

From Transcript, BBC, Max Hastings, The Necessary War:

Professor John Horne has exhaustively researched
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and catalogued the German Army’s actions
0:30:10 0:30:12

in Berlin and France during 1914.
0:30:12 0:30:15

John, we are here, in the university library at Louvain,
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what happened here?
0:30:21 0:30:22

Well, on 25th August, there was the sound of fighting -
0:30:22 0:30:27

German soldiers shooting at what they claimed was a civilian insurrection.
0:30:27 0:30:32

Round about 11 o’clock in the evening,
0:30:32 0:30:34

this beautiful university library was broken into by the German soldiers
0:30:34 0:30:38

and deliberately set fire.
0:30:38 0:30:40

One young Jesuit, Father Dupierreux, had written in his notebook
0:30:40 0:30:45

that he thought the Germans, in burning down the library,
0:30:45 0:30:47

had done something as barbaric
0:30:47 0:30:49

as the destruction of the library of Alexandria in antiquity.
0:30:49 0:30:53

This was seized by German soldiers and he was summarily executed.
0:30:53 0:30:57

And by the 29th or the 30th,
0:30:57 0:30:59

you have to imagine Louvain as an almost empty town.
0:30:59 0:31:03

The population that hadn’t been deported gradually straggled back in
0:31:03 0:31:06

to find between 1,500 and 2,000 buildings destroyed,
0:31:06 0:31:10

and well over 240 of their own townspeople had been killed.
0:31:10 0:31:15

All armies in all wars can behave very badly.
0:31:15 0:31:18

What seems different about what happened in Belgium in 1914
0:31:18 0:31:22

was that it wasn’t just the question of the odd soldiers
0:31:22 0:31:25

brutally murdering a few civilians,
0:31:25 0:31:27

they were systematically shooting them in scores
0:31:27 0:31:30

-and sometimes in hundreds as hostages.

-You are quite right.
0:31:30 0:31:33

What we’ve just described in Louvain was a terrible incident
0:31:33 0:31:37

and it immediately grabbed the international headlines.
0:31:37 0:31:39

But it was typical of something that happened across the whole
0:31:39 0:31:42

invasion front, in Belgium and also in eastern France.
0:31:42 0:31:46

And it wasn’t the worst case in terms of the death rate.
0:31:46 0:31:49

Dinant was destroyed as a town
0:31:49 0:31:51

and 674 of its inhabitants executed two days before…
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-In cold blood?

-In cold blood.
0:31:54 0:31:57

In the first weeks of the war,
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nearly 6,500 civilians were executed by German troops
0:32:05 0:32:10

in Belgium and France.
0:32:10 0:32:11

Berlin claimed that they were merely exacting legitimate reprisals
0:32:12 0:32:17

for resistance by civilians, so-called franc-tireurs,
0:32:17 0:32:21

‘but John Horne rejects this.’
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You found no evidence at all of franc-tireurs activity, did you,
0:32:23 0:32:26

of guerrilla activity against the Germans?
0:32:26 0:32:28

None, it was… er, apart from the odd
0:32:28 0:32:31

very isolated incident,
0:32:31 0:32:32

but nothing which justified the German accusations,
0:32:32 0:32:34

which was that there had been what they called a “Volkskrieg”,
0:32:34 0:32:37

a people’s war, a mass uprising.
0:32:37 0:32:39

And the Kaiser, already by 9th August, only a week into the war,
0:32:39 0:32:43

is accusing the King of the Belgians of fermenting such an uprising.
0:32:43 0:32:47

It didn’t happen.
0:32:47 0:32:48

But it was the institutional response of the German generals
0:32:48 0:32:52

and right up to the Kaiser that seems striking.
0:32:52 0:32:54

And it does seem to say something about the character of the regime.
0:32:54 0:32:58

That’s right.
0:32:58 0:32:59

Because, very quickly, what starts out as panics
0:32:59 0:33:03

and localised responses by German soldiers
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is immediately endorsed by the whole German command structure.
0:33:06 0:33:10

And then what swings into play is a series of very brutal reprisals,
0:33:10 0:33:15

which are justified in terms of German military doctrine
0:33:15 0:33:18

as to what you do when you’re faced with civilian uprising.
0:33:18 0:33:21

For years, apologists for Germany claimed that the Belgian atrocities
0:33:23 0:33:28

were figments of Allied propaganda.
0:33:28 0:33:30

Some of the stories that made headlines in 1914,
0:33:31 0:33:34

for instance, claims that thousands of babies
0:33:34 0:33:37

were maimed by German soldiers, were indeed fabrications.
0:33:37 0:33:40

But a big truth persists -
0:33:43 0:33:45

the German Army behaved with systemic barbarity
0:33:45 0:33:48

during its advance across Belgium and France.
0:33:48 0:33:51

Its actions persuaded many hitherto doubting British people
0:33:52 0:33:56

that they had chosen the right side
0:33:56 0:33:58

in the ghastly conflict that was unfolding.
0:33:58 0:34:01

Some historians today claim that the British government’s decision
0:34:03 0:34:06

to go to war in defence of Belgium’s neutrality was simply a fig leaf,
0:34:06 0:34:11

a pretence, when really, it was all simply
0:34:11 0:34:13

about supporting the French against the Germans.
0:34:13 0:34:16

I’d put it a bit differently.
0:34:16 0:34:18

Yes, it’s true that some key ministers wanted to fight anyway,
0:34:18 0:34:22

but Belgium provided a tipping point -
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all sorts of British people who cared nothing for Serbia or Russia
0:34:24 0:34:28

could easily get their minds around the notion
0:34:28 0:34:31

that it was outrageous that the most powerful army in Europe
0:34:31 0:34:34

proposed to crush beneath its boots a small state
0:34:34 0:34:37

simply to serve the convenience of the Schlieffen Plan.
0:34:37 0:34:40

And wasn’t that indeed a decent and honourable reason
0:34:41 0:34:45

for Britain to go to war?


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Posted by Prussian librarian on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:09 | #

From a documentary on The Greater Poland Uprising

     


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Posted by Why your bubble protects an illusion on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:05 | #

Interesting that if one so much as intimates the slightest defense of Poland (e.g., against chauvinism and imperialism) that you will project your mindless German chauvinism (a troll accused me of being a “mindless Polish chauvinist” and said MR was unpopular because of it); with a reactionary part of a large demographic under more direct pressure of PC lies, thus going with the pretense that it cares for sheer truth by reaction - it is backed by Jewry as the third default position:


1) Sheer liberalism is their preferred position for Whites (direct betrayal of Whites and White atomization).

2) Christianity as it places Whites mindlessly under the yoke of Abrahamic law (the golden rule is mindless; the gentiles are not ethnicity organized as such).

3) Failing that, they will encourage Nazism - the clear chauvinism - as they know it will repulse most normal people and lead to antagonism among Whites. ..perhaps take care of some ‘traitorous’ Jews all too intermarried with Germans, Poles and other ‘goyim.’

4) Failing that they will encourage motley and sundry no-account, right wing reactions that help to atomize would-be White organization and coordination:

a) No account scientism, objectivism for the higher i.q.

b) Conspiracy theories; and ideologies beyond reality and verification for the less intelligent or to cover that part of their intelligence that isn’t (lacks judgment).


I am not lonely, but your bubble that appears as camaraderie is based on an illusion and lies.

Enabling some stupid dude like yourself to absurdly accuse me of “mindless Polish chauvinism”, if I defend ethnonationalism.

Nor am I a chauvinist of any kind. I’m ethnonationalist, defending ethnonationalism of all kinds, but the European kind and its coordination to begin with.

Nazism is the clear imperialist supremacism, programmatic of disaster. And scientism - viz., scientistic reaction - is the mindlessness that lets it be guided headlong to disaster. Get with the reality of praxis, get with the ethnonational program.


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Posted by Warsaw 1938 on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:43 | #

Color footage of Warsaw 1938, looked quite good.


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Posted by 3 May 1939 on Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:53 | #

...and 3 May 1939....the Pilsudski parade and surrounds look quite spiffy…the Jewish ghetto not quite so..


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Posted by Sunday 1938 on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:59 | #

Sunday in Warsaw 1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_q0aJBf5Y


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Posted by Warsaw before its destruction on Mon, 03 Dec 2018 02:43 | #

More great footage of Warsaw before its destruction.

From an American perspective, its amazing alone to see a White city (there is one African in one scene)


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Posted by No, let's stick with the Nazis to blame. on Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:46 | #

CaesarSextus@CaesarSextus

“Germans” - notice the Poles rightly don’t use the blame-shifting “Nazis”.

BasedPoland@BasedPoland
· 2h
Today is the 76 anniversary of the outbreak of the #WarsawUprising

The Germans murdered 200,000+ Poles during the 63-day-long uprising. Many of them children

Just in my district (Wola),they executed 50,000 civilians in 4 days

Our football fans have excellent historical memory!

I must disagree with the sentiment here. It’s far better to take the weight off of the Germans per se, especially subsequent generations, and place the burden on the Nazi regime and those who went along with it (who were thus, Nazis).

Tarring all Germans and leaving them no route of distinction from the Nazi regime is no way to move forward and foster good neighborly relations among nations.

The Poles would not appreciate it, and quite rightly not, if the entire nation of their people were blamed for the misdeeds of some rogue regime of theirs from history.

 



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