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Why do the numbers for Auschwitz-Birkenau keep changing?
At the Nuremberg IMT,the German war criminals were charged with killing 4 million prisoners at the three camps known as Auschwitz I (the main camp), Auschwitz II (Birkenau) and Auschwitz III (Monowitz). What was this figure based upon?
The charge against the Germans at Nuremberg was based on a document written on May 6, 1945 by the Soviet Union that was accepted into evidence by the Nurem-berg IMT although there was no proof whatsoever given in this document that 4 mil-lion people had been killed.The Soviet figure of 4 million was based on the estimated capacity of the ovens at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The ovens at Birkenau had been removed by the Germans two months before they abandoned the camp, but the Soviets were still able to somehow estimate their capacity. "
Nürnbergin tuomiot eivät perustuneet kapasiteeteille, vaan tiedoille henkilöistä, jotka olivat kadonneet natsien murhakoneistoon. Näistä tunnetaan erityisen hyvin juutalai-set, koska heistä oli seurakunnilla tarkat tiedot, ja koska he olivat etnisen puhdistuk-sen erityisenä kohteena. Juutalaiset uhrit, yhteensä 6 miljoonaa, muodostivat puolet kaikista natsien tappamista siviileistä ja sotavangeista.
Holokaustin uhrien määrää ei ole siis saatu ynnäilemällä eri leirien arvioita, vaan sen perusteella,keitä on kadonnut saksalaisten käsissä.Auschwitzin kautta tiedetään kul-keneen noin 4 miljoonaa ihmistä. Monien maiden saksalaisten käsiin joutuneet juuta-laiset ja muut kulkivat Auschwitzin kautta: osin Puolan, ja sinne tuodut Unkarin, Krei-kan, Tshekkoslovakian, Itävallan juutalaiset ainakin.Kaikkia ei tapettu heti Auschwitz-Birkenaussa, niin ei ole väitettykään esimerkiksi alkuperäisessä muistolaatassa, eikä sillä ole Nürnbergin tuomioiden kannalta merkitystä. Auschwitzin "kapasiteettitieto" perustui sille, että siellä, tarkasti ottaen nimenomaan Birknaussa, kaasutettiin ja poltettiin alkuvuoden 1944 aikana 400000 Unkarin juutalaista, kuten suomalainen Wikipediakin tietää:
"Birkenaun leiri oli ensisijaisesti tuhoamisleiri,kun Auschwitzin muut leirit olivat ennen kaikkea työleirejä. Sinne tuotiin junalasteittain juutalaisia ympäri Eurooppaa tuhotta-viksi ja poltettaviksi. Esimerkiksi kevät-kesällä 1944 leirillä surmattiin arviolta jopa 400000 Unkarin juutalaista."
Tämä oli kymmesosa leirin tehollisesta käyttöajasta,ja "koe" on ajateltu niin,että koko puoli vuotta olisi kaasuteltu pelkästään unkarinjuutalaisia, mikä varmastikaan ei pitä-nyt paikkaansa! Sen sijaan sama hakusana antaa lerin kautta kulkeneiden, siellä tai muulla tapettujen määräksi 1.5 miljoonaa, joka on taatusti liian pieni, vaikka kuinka perustuisi puolalaisiin museolähteisiin.
" Kaikkiaan Auschwitz-Birkenaun leirien läpi kulki arviolta 1,5 miljoonaa vankia. "
Tämä on justiin sitä otsikossakin mainittua vääristelyä.
"The Soviets also charged the German war criminals with killing 1.5 million prisoners at Majdanek.That figure has now been reduced to 78000 by the Majdanek Museum. Out of this number, 59,000 were Jews. "
Ei pidä paikkaansa: Puolalaisen valtionmuseon mukkan Maidanekin kautta kulki 300000 vankia. Jos näin oli, noin puolet asukkaista oli neuvostoliittolaisia sotavanke- ja. Maidanekin alkuperäisiin mahdolisiin yliarvoihin on erityisesti vaikuttanut,ettei tun-nettu kunnolla Treblinkaa, jonka saksalaiset olisivat onnistuneet tehokkaasti hävittä-mään. Neuvostoliittolaiset lähteet tarkoittavat aina kaikkia, ei pelkästään juutalaisia. Heidät saattaa kyllä olla erikseen maiittu, kuten NL:n kansalaisetkin. Tämä Puolan virallinen arvio 300000 on alakantissa, kuten Birkenaunkin arvio.
Ei ole kuitenkaan hirveän olennaista, missä nimenomaisessa paikassa kukakin kadonnut uhri tapettiin.
" In 1990, the plaques with the figure of 4 million at the International Monument at Birkenau were removed.It was not until 1995 that new plaques were placed at the International Monument with 20 metal plates inscribed in Yiddish, English and all the major languages of Europe;the plaques were set on granite slabs on the steps of the International Monument.The number of deaths at Auschwitz,according to each of the 20 metal plates, is 1.5 million.
Original plaque at Birkenau had 4 million deaths
Tässä ei sanota jurisesti, että kaikki 4 miljoonaa kuollutta olisi nimenomaan tapettu juuri täällä.
Ihan justiin kuten suomalainen wiki tulkitsee tätä uutta laattaa (jonka lukema läpimeneiksi täällä tai muullla tapetuiksi on liian pieni).
New plaque with 1.5 million deaths
It is very hard to read the words on the plaque in my photo. Sorry about that.
The words on the English plaque are:
FOR EVER LET THIS PLACE BE A CRY OF DESPAIR AND A WARNING TO HUMANITY, WHERE THE NAZIS MURDERED ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILLION MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN MAINLY JEWS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU 1940-1945
But 1.5 million is not the official number of deaths at Auschwitz. The official estimate, currently given by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, is 1.1 million deaths. "
Tuollaisilla "virallisilla arvioilla" ei ole merkitystä. Kansanmurhat tuomitsee ja ainoat viralliset arviot tekee YK tieteellisin näyttöhin perustuen, koska kansanmurhatutkinta on rikostutkintaa.
" In 1980, Franciszek Piper, the former director of the Auschwitz Museum, began a study of all the available documents at Auschwitz; he calculated that 1077180 priso-ners, of which 90% were Jews,had died at Auschwitz,based on his ESTIMATE of the number of ARRIVALS minus the number of liberated prisoners and the number of transferred, escaped and released prisoners. This number includes the Jews, not registered in the camp, who are assumed to have been gassed immediately upon arrival.
Franciszek Piper wrote the following in an article on the official Auschwitz web site:
After an overall analysis of the original sources and findings on deportation to Auschwitz, I CONCLUDED that a total of at least 1,300,000 people were deported there, and that 1,100,000 of them perished. Approximately 200,000 people were deported from Auschwitz to other camps as part of the redistribution of labor resources and the final liquidation of the camp.
According to the Auschwitz Museum,no records of the number of prisoners who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau have ever been found. In an article on the official Auschwitz website, the former director, Franciszek Piper, wrote the following:
When the Soviet army entered the camp on January 27, 1945, they did not find any German documents there giving the number of victims, or any that could be used as a basis for calculating this number. Such documents (transport lists, noti- fications of the arrival of transports, reports about the outcome of selection) had been destroyed before liberation. For this reason, the Soviet commission investi-gating the crimes committed in Auschwitz Concentration Camp had to make estimates.
[…]
The absence of the most important of the statistical sources that the Germans kept in Auschwitz made it practically impossible for historians to research the issue of the number of victims. The reluctance to research this issue also resulted from a conviction of the impossibility of drawing up a full list of transports reflecting the total number of deportees, and above all of the people who were consumed by the gas chambers and crematoria with no registration or records.
Strangely, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russians released some of the records, that had allegedly been destroyed, and turned them over to the Red Cross. The records were incomplete, but the numbers are embarrassingly low. I can’t even tell you the numbers for fear of being charged with being a criminal the next time I go to Germany, so you will just have to look it up yourself.
Rudolf Hoess, the former Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau,was put on trial in Po- land in 1946. He was charged with the murder of “around 300000 people held at the camp as prisoners and entered into the camp’s records and around 4000000 people mainly Jews, who were brought to the camp in transports from other European countries for immediate extermination and thus not listed in the camp’s records. ”
Photo that hangs in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The caption underneath the photo that hangs in the USHMM reads:
On May 14, 1946, Rudolf Hoess, the former commandant of Auschwitz, signed a declaration stating that during his tenure in office, 2 million Jews had been gassed at Auschwitz and another 500,000 killed in other ways. Hoess overestimated the number of Jews gassed by about 1 million.
During his trial in Poland, Hoess changed the figure in his confession to a total of 1130000 Jews that were gassed but declared “During my tenure at Auschwitz, millions of people died, whose exact number I cannot determine.”
Hoess was the Commandant. Why couldn’t he determine the number of people that were gassed? When asked about this, Hoess claimed that, after each action (gas-sing), the records were destroyed. The only person who knew, according to Hoess, was Adolf Eichmann.
At the Nuremberg IMT, a quote, allegedly made by Eichmann in 1945, was introduced into evidence:
“I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”
Neuvostoliitolla on ollut kaiken aiken aikaa muuta tietä saatu muuttumaton (eri maiden) natsien juutalaisten uhrien kokonaismäärä 6 mlj., joka löytyy Sovjetskaja Entsiklopedijasta hakusanan Juutalaiset (Jews) alta:
"... In the capitalist countries anti-Semitism continues to exist; this found its most ex-treme expression in fascist Germany.The Nazis carried out a policy of mass extermi- nation of the Jews; about 6 million Jews were murdered in World War II (1939 – 45).
After World War II, chauvinist tendencies and Zionist ideology, with its antiscientific assertion of the “messianic” role of the Jews and the idea of the “chosen people,” were artificially revived among Jews in the developed capitalist countries. Zionism has become an ideology of militant chauvinism and anticommunism, acting in the interests of international imperialism.
The Jewish state of Israel, which was created in 1948 on the basis of a decision of the United Nations General Assembly, has proclaimed Zionism its official ideology.
In 1967 there were about 13.5 million Jews in the world, of whom 5.7 million live in the United States,over 2,5 million in Israel (1970 estimate),2.151 million in the USSR (1970 census), over 500000 in France,about 480,000 in Great Britain, about 450000 in Argentina, about 270,000 in Canada, about 130000 in Brazil, about 110000 in the Republic of South Africa, and about 110000 in Rumania. Most Jews speak the lan-guage of their country of residence. Some Jews in Europe and America also speak Yiddish,a language in which there is a literature; in the USSR,according to 1970 cen- sus, 17.7 percent of Jews declared Yiddish as their native language. The official lan-guage of the Jews of Israel is Hebrew, which developed on the basis of the ancient Hebrew of the scriptures and which Jews in other countries use only in religious wor-ship. Some Jews in the Mediterranean coun-tries (the so-called Sephardim) speak Ladino, a language that is similar to Spanish. "
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Tällä perusteella polakit eivät tietenkään sitten oikaise mitään eivätkä palauta kylttejä..
Uusi natsitodiste sulkee holokaustin kiistäjien suut lopullisesti
Julkaistu: 17.1.2012 20:33
Sturdy Collsin oikeustieteellisen ryhmän tutkimuksissa on löytynyt myös merkkejä kahdesta rakennuksesta, joiden epäillään toimineen kaasukammioina.
- Olen maaperätutkimusten avulla löytänyt useita hautakuoppia, jotka ovat merkittä-vän kokoisia. Ne ovat myös hyvin syviä. Suurin niistä on 26 metriä pitkä ja 17 metriä leveä, Sturdy Colls kertoi Radio Timesille.
Hänen mukaansa haudoista on löydetty myös tuhansia ihmisruumiiden jäänteitä.
Sturdy Colls toivoo löydöksensä olevan ensimmäinen askel piilotettujen holokaustin ajan hautojen etsimisessä.
Suuri osa Treblinkaan 1940-luvulla tuoduista juutalaisista tuotiin Varsovasta, mutta myös Puolan ulkopuolelta.
Treblinka oli yksi kolmesta itäiseen Puolaan perustetusta systemaattiseen juutalaisten tuhoamiseen tarkoitetusta leiristä. "
Miten witussa sitä ei aikaisemmin ole löydetty... "
Abstract
The Polish-Russian war of words over World War II has taken an ugly turn, with the Polish president refusing to attend a Holocaust memorial in Israel and his PM accusing the Soviet Union of delaying the liberation of Auschwitz.
https://chamosaurio.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/in-its-obsession-with-russia-polish-government-now-rushes-headlong-into-disgusting-holocaust-revisionism/
The Polish-Russian war of words over World War II has taken an ugly turn, with the Polish president refusing to attend a Holocaust memorial in Israel and his PM accusing the Soviet Union of delaying the liberation of Auschwitz.
President Andrzej Duda has refused the invitation to the World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem on Thursday, in protest over Russian President Vladimir Putin being invited to speak at the event while he was not. Instead, Duda will preside over the memorial ceremony in Auschwitz on Monday – to which his government deliberately did not invite Putin.
International Holocaust Memorial Day is marked on January 27 because on that date in 1945 the Red Army troops liberated the notorious Nazi death camp at what is now called Oswiecim. Yet the current Polish government has refused to give the Soviet Union any credit for liberating Auschwitz – or Poland, for that matter – insisting instead that their country was a purely innocent victim of Nazis and Soviets in equal measure.
Duda’s Law and Justice (PiS) party even lobbied the EU to declare this as a historical fact in a parliamentary resolution – to the fury of Moscow, which considers this to be spitting on the graves of almost 27 million Soviet citizens who died in the war against Hitler’s regime, and some 600,000 soldiers who perished to liberate Poland in particular.
Warsaw has gone so far as to completely ignore the 75th anniversary of its liberation from the Nazis, describing it instead as the beginning of “occupation” by the USSR. However, the new low was surely the op-ed published in Politico this week, in which Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki argued that the Soviets deliberately halted their advance in the summer of 1944, instead of pushing on to liberate Warsaw or Auschwitz.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described Morawiecki’s diatribe as a “real suicide,” noting that “in those four pages, the Polish PM killed his own humanity.”
It has been this historian’s assessment that modern Poland’s overwhelming hostility towards Russia goes beyond grievances that arose from centuries of shared – and often contentious – history. With Poland’s other historical neighbors and rivals – such as Germany and Austria – now alongside Warsaw in one big pretend-happy EU family, Russia has become the Other on which Polish nationalists can project all their frustrations.
Cold War frustrations don’t fully explain this, either. While Poland may be trying to overcompensate for being a Soviet vassal then, nearby Hungary had an even more turbulent 1945-1989 experience yet Budapest doesn’t seem given to fits of Russophobia.
Viktor Orban is no less nationalist or conservative than Morawiecki – but he is also pragmatic, leveraging relations with Moscow to keep the EU out of Hungary’s business. Poland is having the same troubles with Brussels busybodies, but it chose to eagerly hitch itself to Washington’s Russophobic bandwagon instead.
This approach by the PiS seems to parallel the attempts of interwar Poland to seek out allies in London and Paris in the late 1930s, as their relations with both Germany and the USSR got worse. The Second Polish Republic was regarded in the West as a revisionist power, disliked and distrusted, eager to turn on neighbors like Czechoslovakia – as it did in Munich in 1938 – and the first to make a pact with Hitler, in 1934. Duda shrieked in protest when Putin described Poland’s ambassador to Berlin in the 1930s as an anti-Semite, but historical records show the Russian president was right.
Resemblances don’t stop there. The junta established by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski had dreams of an “intermarium” mega-state between the Baltic and the Black Sea, led by Poland and serving as a buffer between Western Europe and the USSR, which they sought to break up. The idea has been resurrected in modern times as the “Three Seas Initiative,” this time with NATO support.
These policies were a failure then, and there is no reason to believe they will do any better now. Yet Duda and Morawiecki are so committed to replaying this particular period in Polish history, they are accusing the USSR of being an accomplice to the Holocaust. This is simply vile.
It is also petty, foolish and ultimately self-defeating, as it dishonors the memory of not just the Soviet soldiers who gave their lives to defeat Hitler, but the many Poles who fought and died alongside them.
Nebojsa Malic
is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.
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The cynical revelations of the Polish Prime Minister
Statement by the Chairman of the CC CPRF G.A.Zyuganov
In an interview to the British newspaper the “Telegraph” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated that: “The Russian world is a cancer which not only devours a majority of the Russian society but also poses a deadly threat to Europe as well. It’s not sufficient for us to support Ukraine in its military struggle against Russia, we have to uproot this terrible ideology completely.”
This is an absolutely disgusting statement demonstrating the depth of hatred the current Polish elite has to Russia. It’s clear that uprooting the ideology of the “Russian World” will be implemented together with Russian nation as the ideology bearer. Actually it sounds like a call for destruction of our civilization. This is in full correspondence with what Hitler tried to do, while destroying the Soviet people under the pretext of fighting against communism.
It is well known that the Russian world is based on the principles of justice, collectivism and mutual assistance, respect for the culture and religion of other peoples. Definitely, this is the reason of hatred towards us in Europe submerging deeper and deeper into lack of spirituality, degradation, rejection of traditional values.
All above mentioned is multiplied by historical hatred of the Polish elite towards Russia. In the army of Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812 and counted 600,000 troops, there were about 100,000 polish noblemen. In 1922, the Poles executed tens of thousands of captured Red Army soldiers in concentration camps. And in the mid-1930s, Poland was actually considered as a fascist state and the primary opponent of the young Soviet country.
The contribution of Poles to the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust has yet to be studied in detail. Apparently, there was a reason for Fascists to build the most terrible concentration camps, including Auschwitz, on the territory of Poland. During the Second World War, the Home Army squads, subordinated to the Polish puppet government based in London, killed thousands of Red Army soldiers.
Nothing surprising is available in statements made by Moravetsky. Over the past three decades, Poland has purposefully claimed for the role of a NATO spear pointed against Russia. In its aggressive Russophobia, the Polish elite has far surpasses all the West European countries, striving to become the main conductor of US interests on the continent. It is more and more being transformed into an American military base.
An unprecedented attack against the Russian Ambassador on the holy Victory Day on May 9 this year belongs to the same category.
In all times the violent actions against the Ambassador of any country has been considered as a very serious crime. The Polish authorities did it quite intentionally.
In their hatred of Russia, polish extreme nationalists are linked with the followers of Bandera, who are well known not only for Russophobia and anti-Semitism, but also for crimes against Polish.
Most likely the memories of “Massacre in Volyn” of 1944, when the predecessors of the current Nazis violently exterminated about 100 thousand Polish women, children and elderly people in Western Ukraine has evaporated from his mind.
The vile appeal of the Polish Prime Minister confirms our conviction that neo-Nazism is not only become an ideology of Bandera regime in Kiev, but as well it is actively spreading throughout Europe. Recently, the German Chancellor stated that the Russian military operation in Ukraine ”makes Germany free from a historical guilt.”
This is an extremely worrying trend. Apparently, Europe has forgotten about the terrible consequences followed by emergence and strengthening of Nazism in Germany.
Humanity has paid high tribute of 71 million lives. Our country lost 27 million of its best sons and daughters in the fight against German Nazism and Japanese militarism. We haven’t forgotten that. That is why Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is of clearly anti-fascist nature.
We do not transfer our attitude to the actions and statements of the current Polish gentlemen to all citizens of this country. Poles are a Slavic people. Ordinary people welcomed the Red Army, that liberated them from fascists, with bread and salt. Our mutually beneficial cooperation within the socialist camp contributed to the restoration and development of Polish industry and science. Hitlers and Banderas, Pilsudski and Morawiecki come and go. And the commonwealth of Slavic peoples, who have been living side by side for many centuries, revives every time against all odds, because it corresponds to their fundamental interests.
The Communist Party strongly condemns the disgusting, Russophobic statement by the Polish Prime Minister and addresses the following words to him: “Hands are short, Mr. Morawiecki. Our history has seen many eager of putting an end to the Russian world, including your like-minded Adolf Hitler. Their place has long been in the dustbin of history. The same fate will be yours.”
Chairman of the CC CPRF G.A.Zyuganov "
German and Polish police, Poland, 1943. Yulia Krasnodembsky, from 'Hunt for the Jews.'
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Rebuffing ire over bill, Warsaw says Auschwitz, ‘Arbeit macht frei’ not Polish
Mateusz Morawiecki signals backing for bill criminalizing blaming Poles for Holocaust atrocities, amid escalating row with Israel
A March of the Living delegation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on May 5, 2016. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pushed back Saturday against Israeli anger over a bill that would outlaw blaming Poles for Holocaust crimes committed on Polish soil, saying that the name Auschwitz and the phrase “Arbeit macht frei,” two of the Shoah’s most potent symbols, were not Polish.
The comments came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an urgent meeting between Israeli diplomats in Poland and Morawiecki to express his “strong opposition” to the bill passed on Friday by the lower house of the Polish parliament criminalizing statements suggesting Polish responsibility for atrocities committed on its soil during the Holocaust.
“Auschwitz is the most bitter lesson on how evil ideologies can lead to hell on earth. Jews, Poles, and all victims should be guardians of the memory of all who were murdered by German Nazis,” Morawiecki wrote on Twitter late Saturday. “Auschwitz-Birkenau is not a Polish name, and Arbeit Macht Frei is not a Polish phrase.”
Auschwitz was the name of the most notorious Nazi death camp on Polish soil, where over 1 million people were killed, most of them Jews. A gate on the front read “Arbeit Macht Frei,” German for “Work makes you free.”
Morawiecki also noted on Twitter that Israel and Poland signed a joint statement in 2016 opposing use of the term “Polish death camps.”
The new bill prescribes criminal proceedings for individuals or organizations who al-legedly defame the “Polish nation” by assigning guilt or complicity to Poles for crimes committed on Polish soil during the Holocaust. Phrases such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the killing sites Nazi Germany operated in occupied Poland during World War II may be punishable by three years in prison or a fine, according to the law. The bill is partly a response to cases in recent years of foreign media using “Polish death camps” to describe Auschwitz and other Nazi-run camps.
The bill also makes it illegal to “deliberately reduce the responsibility of the ‘true cul-prits’ of these crimes,” in reference to the murder of around 100,000 Poles by units in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the World War II.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland speaks in Budapest on January 26, 2018 (AFP /Attila KISBENEDEK)
At a speech earlier in the day marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp, Morawiecki emphasized German culpability for the atrocities and listed the Poles as among the victims, according to a statement from his office.
“A crushing, brutal force destroyed the Jewish nation and part of the Polish nation. It was a German force,and we must call the truth by what it is: yes is yes and no is no,
” he said.
The comments came as Israel raged against the Polish law, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
In a statement Saturday evening, Netanyahu called the Polish bill “baseless” and said “history cannot be re-written.”
“The Holocaust cannot be denied,” Netanyahu wrote, adding that he instructed the Israeli embassy in Poland to “meet tonight with the Polish prime minister to relay my firm stance against this bill.”
The deputy Polish ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs for talks on Sunday, the ministry said. The Polish ambassador is currently not in the country.
A foreign ministry official told AFP the Polish bill was “an attempt to rewrite and falsify history, something that the Jewish people and Israel will never accept.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that a possible recall of the Israeli ambassador to Poland for consultations was “not off the table.”
Netanyahu’s statement came on the heels of a heated exchange over the bill between Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, a member of the Israeli opposition, and the Polish embassy in Israel.
Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, in his office at the Knesset (AP Photo / Sebastian Scheiner)
Lapid, the son of a Holocaust survivor, took to Twitter on Saturday to slam the bill, characterizing it as an effort to rewrite history.
“I strongly condemn the new law that was passed in Poland, which attempts to deny the involvement of many Polish citizens in the Holocaust,” Lapid wrote in a tweet in Hebrew on Saturday.
“No Polish law will change history, Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered on its soil without them having met any German officer.”
He also tweeted in English.
Poland’s embassy in Israel hit back at Lapid, tweeting that his “unsupportable claims show how badly Holocaust education is needed, even here in Israel.” The intent of the Polish legislation, it said, “is not to ‘whitewash’ the past, but to protect the truth against such slander.”
To which Lapid retorted with outrage and a demand for an apology: “I am a son of a Holocaust survivor. My grandmother was murdered in Poland by Germans and Poles. I don’t need Holocaust education from you. We live with the consequences every day in our collective memory.Your embassy should offer an immediate apology.”
The Polish bill was blasted by a host of Israeli politicians including Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan, Minister of Intelligence Yisrael Katz, and the head of the Joint (Arab) List MK Ayman Odeh who said the legislation was “embarrassing and dangerous.”
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, noting that exactly 73 years had passed since the Auschwitz death camp on Polish soil was liberated,cited the words of a former Polish president about how history could not be faked and the truth could not be hidden.
“The Jewish people, the State of Israel, and the entire world must ensure that the Holocaust is recognized for its horrors and atrocities",Rivlin said.“Also among the Polish people, there were those who aided the Nazis in their crimes. Every crime, every offense, must be condemned. They must be examined and revealed.”
Some major news organizations have banned language referring to Polish death camps.
Former US President Barack Obama used it in 2012, prompting outrage in Poland. Obama made the comment while awarding the Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. Karski died in 2000.
During an East Room ceremony honoring 13 Medal of Freedom recipients, Obama said that Karski “served as a courier for the Polish resistance during the darkest days of World War II. Before one trip across enemy lines, resistance fighters told him that Jews were being murdered on a massive scale and smuggled him into the War-saw Ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself. Jan took that information to President Franklin Roosevelt, giving one of the first accounts of the Holocaust and imploring to the world to take action.”
After complaints, the White House said Obama misspoke.
Poland’s deputy justice minister Patryk Jaki said in a speech before the lower house on Friday “Non-governmental organizations indicate that every other day the phrase ‘Polish death camps’ is used around the world. In other words, German Nazi crimes are attributed to Poles.”
“And so far the Polish state has not been able to effectively fight these types of insults to the Polish nation,” he added, supporting the bill.
Jaki likened the move to Israel’s passage in 2016 of the controversial “NGOs bill” which requires more transparency by foreign-funded NGOs, a majority of them criti-cal of Israel. Critics had called the law undemocratic and an assault on free speech.
“I don’t know why Poland would have more difficulty acting in an efficient manner like Israel does, why it should have less effective tools than Israel,” he told parliament.
Critics say enforcing the law would be impossible outside Poland, and that within the country it would have a chilling effect on debating history, harming freedom of expression.
While the law contains a provision excluding scholarly or academic works, opponents still see a danger.
They especially worry it could be used to stifle research and debate on topics that are anathema to Poland’s nationalistic authorities, particularly the painful issue of Poles who blackmailed Jews or denounced them to the Nazis during the war.
Today’s Poles have been raised on stories of their people’s wartime suffering and heroism. Many react viscerally when confronted with the growing body of scholarship about Polish involvement in the killing of Jews.
For decades, Polish society avoided discussing the killing of Jews by civilians or de-nied that anti-Semitism motivated the slayings,blaming all atrocities on the Germans.
A turning point was the publication in 2000 of a book, “Neighbors", by Polish-Ameri-can sociologist Jan Tomasz Gross,which explored the murder of Jews by their Polish neighbors in the village of Jedwabne. The book resulted in widespread soul-searching and official state apologies.
But since the conservative and nationalistic Law and Justice party consolidated power in 2015, it has sought to stamp out discussions and research on the topic. It demonized Gross and investigated whether he had slandered Poland by asserting that Poles killed more Jews than they killed Germans during the war.
Holocaust researchers have collected ample evidence of Polish villagers who mur-dered Jews fleeing the Nazis.According to one scholar at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holo- caust memorial, of the 160,000-250,000 Jews who escaped and sought help from fellow Poles, about 10 percent to 20 percent survived. The rest were rejected, infor-med upon or killed by rural Poles, according to the Tel Aviv University scholar, Havi Dreifuss.
The memorial issued a statement Saturday night opposing the Polish legislation and trying to put into historical context the “complex truth” regarding the Polish population’s attitude toward its Jews.
“There is no doubt that the term ‘Polish death camps’ is a historical misrepresenta-tion, ” the Yad Vashem memorial said. “However, restrictions on statements by scho-lars and others regarding the Polish people’s direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed on their land during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.”
AP contributed to this report.
" Netanyahu Orders Embassy to Meet With Polish PM Over New Holocaust Law: 'We Cannot Allow Holocaust Denial'
Netanyahu calls Polish law 'baseless' ■ Israeli Arab lawmakers join their Jewish counterparts in calling out Poland ■ Rivlin emphasizes 'our duty to remember'
Polish parliament votes to criminalize any mention of Polish crimes during the Holocaust
Don't make the mistake of thinking Auschwitz is history
Prime Minister condemned Saturday new legislation in Poland which bars any mention of crimes by the "Polish nation" during the Holocaust, calling on Israel's ambassador in Warsaw to meet with the Polish prime minister on the contentious bill.
"The law is baseless. I strongly oppose it. History cannot be changed and it is forbid-den to deny the Holocaust. I ordered the Israeli embassy in Poland to meet with the Polish Prime Minister and express my firm stand against the law," Netanyahu said.
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The deputy Polish ambassador in Israel has been called in for a reprimand at the Foreign Ministry. The Polish ambassador is currently abroad.
In a statement from the President's Office, President Reuven Rivlin also criti-cized the bill, saying that "on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, more than ever, and above all considerations, we are faced with our duty to remember our brothers and sisters who were murdered."
On Friday,the Polish parliament approved a controversial law forbidding any mention of participation of the "Polish nation" in crimes committed during the Holocaust. Yair Lapid, the head of the centrist Yesh Atid party, got into a Twitter feud with the Polish embassy in Israel on Saturday and even had to remind them not give him, the child of Holocaust survivors, a lesson on the subject, prompting them to label him "shameless."
Survivors and guests walk past the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberati\ KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS
>>'Orgy of murder': The Poles who 'hunted' Jews and turned them over to the Nazis
"I utterly condemn the new Polish law which tries to deny Polish complicity in the Holocaust. It was conceived in Germany but hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered without ever meeting a German soldier," Lapid tweeted Saturday.
The law also forbids use of the term "Polish death camp" to describe the death camps where Jews and others were murdered in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. Anyone who violates the new law, including non-Polish citizens, will be liable to a fine or imprisonment for up to three years.
>> Polish parliament votes to criminalize any mention of Polish crimes during the Holocaust
Lapid "There were Polish death camps and no law can ever change that," Lapid wrote. However, the Polish embassy in Israel quickly responded, writing Lapid: "Your unsupportable claims show how badly Holocaust education is needed, even here in Israel."
The embassy also linked to a statement by the International Holocaust Rememb-rance Alliance,an international organization representing 27 nations and dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust, which supports the idea that it is "historically unsupportable to use the terms 'Polish death camps.'"
Polish embassy in Israel to Lapid: 'Shameless'
"The intent of the Polish draft legislation is not to ‘whitewash’ the past, but to protect the truthagainst such slander," the embassy wrote.
Lapid fire back: "I am a son of a Holocaust survivor. My grandmother was mur-dered in Poland by Germans and Poles. I don’t need Holocaust education from you.
"We live with the consequences every day in our collective memory. Your embassy should offer an immediate apology," Lapid wrote.
The Polish embassy then responded again, asking Lapid: "How does that relate to the fact that WW2 death camps were German Nazi, not Polish (our thread)? Shameless."
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz tweeted that it was "The Polish parliament's law is to deny Poland's part in and responsibility for the massacre that took place on its soil. We will not forgot or forgive."
MK Ayman Odeh wrote on Twitter: "The decision of the Polish government is shame-ful and dangerous. Holocaust denial links to the darkest moments in history. Only deep recognitions of the injustices in the past guarantee the sanctity of life in the future."
Arab lawmaker MK Ahmad Tibi responded: " I propose to the Polish government to quickly cancel its shameful decision. Rewriting history is never a worthy act. Never."
Labor Party Chairman Avi Gabbay also tweeted: "The decision will encourage Holo-caust deniers around the world to spread their lies. Ignoring history does not change it."
MK Isaac Herzog also responded to the news from Poland, writing that "The bill which had just passed in Poland is morally and factually wrong," saying it seemed to entail an "element of Holocaust denial. It should not have been legislated. I sincerely hope that it will be abolished soon by the Polish leadership and legislature."
According to the law, which was approved on Friday by the country's lower parlia-ment, anyone who publicly attributes guilt or complicity to the Polish state for crimes committed by Nazi Germany,war crimes or other crimes against humanity, will be liable to criminal proceedings. Punishment will also be imposed on those who are seen to "deliberately reduce the responsibility of the 'true culprits' of these crimes."
The new law will apply both to Polish citizens and to foreigners regardless which country the statement is supposed to have been made in.The impli-cation of the new law means that in theory, a Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who lives in Israel, who may make a statement such as "the Polish people were involved in the murder of my grandfather in the Holocaust," or "my mother was murdered in a Polish death camp," would be liable for impri-sonment in Poland. Polish Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki told parliament on Friday: "Every day, around the world, the term 'Polish death camps' is used - in other words, the crimes of Nazi Germany are attri-buted to the Poles. So far Poland has not been able to effectively combat this kind of insult against the Polish nation."
The law has yet to be passed by the Senate and the Polish president, however is considered to have passed its largest hurdle.
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Israelilainen kommentaattro Jakov Kedmi oikaisee Puolaa: "kuka pelasti, kuka ruokki?"
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«Кто их спас, кто хлебом кормил?»: Кедми преподал Польше урок истории в ответ на критику России после Второй мировой
03.09.2019
Израильский политолог Яков Кедми поделился мнением по поводу крити-ки Польши в адрес России о Второй мировой войне. По его мнению, пове-дение официальной Варшавы свидетельствует об «унижении истории».
В воскресенье,1 сентября,в МИД Польши заявили, что список гостей, пригла-шенных на памятные мероприятия по случаю годовщины начала Второй миро-вой войны, был составлен на основе «современного критерия», под который Россия якобы не попадает. Также глава оборонного ведомства страны Мариуш Блащак обвинил Москву в неполучении репараций от Германии. В эфире телеканала «Россия-1» израильский политолог по-делился мнением по поводу риторики поляков в адрес «восточного соседа» по случаю годовщины одного из важнейших исторических событий.
По словам эксперта, поведение представителей официальной Варшавы не яв-ляется оскорбительным лично для него, однако нежелание приглашать Россию на торжественные мероприятия «оскорбляет и унижает польскую историю». К слову, все это не помешало Польше пригласить политиков из Британии и Фран-ции, что свидетельствует о «полном отшибе памяти», поскольку данные страны не играли никакой роли для поляков во времена Второй мировой.
«Сегодняшняя Польша – это не та Польша, которая воевала против нацистов. Там воевала Армия Людова, больше и сильнее, чем (героизируемая сегодня Варшавой) Армия Крайова. Про нее забыли.Кто их спас от разрушения немца-ми? Советские офицеры. Не было бы Кракова. А кто восста-новил Польшу, кто ее хлебом кормил?» – преподал Кедми урок истории нынешней Варшаве.
При этом политолог раскритиковал «выпады» Польши о потерях 6 млн человек за годы войны, в чем глава государства Анджей Дуда уже успел обвинить Гер-манию. Дело в том,что почти половина жертв на территории республики в то время были евреями.Ответственность за их гибель лежит не только на немцах, но и украинцах,которые «обслуживали» 90% концлагерей вместе с прибалтами
Ранее официальный представитель российской дипломатии Мария Захарова иронично ответила на заявление замглавы МИД Польши, объяснив-шего нежелание Варшавы приглашать Москву на памятные мероприятия по случаю годовщины Второй мировой войны. Подробнее — в материале «ПолитПазл».
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Кедми: Россия начала открывать правду о позорной роли Польши в войне
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Saksan liittokansleri Auschwitzin keskitysleirissä: Natsien tekemien rikosten muistaminen on vastuu, joka ei koskaan lopu
Natsi-Saksan perustamalla Auschwitz-Birkenaun leirillä murhattiin toisen maailmansodan aikana yli miljoona ihmistä.
6.12.2019 klo 15.02
Liittokansleri Angela Merkel kävi perjantaina ensimmäistä kertaa Auschwitzin keskitysleirin alueelle perustetussa museossa.
Saksan liittokansleri Angela Merkel on vieraillut ensimmäisen kerran Auschwitzin keskitysleirialueella. Natsi-Saksan miehittämälle alueelle Puolassa toisen maailman-sodan aikana perustetussa Auschwitz-Birkenaussa murhattiin arviolta 1,1 miljoonaa ihmistä. Suurin osa murhatuista oli juutalaisia. Merkel käveli nykyään museona toimivaan Auschwitziin "Arbeit macht frei" -kyltin ali.
Toisin kuin kyltti kertoi, työ ei vapauttanut tuhoamisleirille suljettuja ihmisiä. Merkelin seurueessa olivat muun muassa keskitysleiriltä selvinnyt 87-vuotias Bogdan Stanisław Bartnikowski ja Puolan pääministeri Mateusz Morawiecki.
Leirialueella Merkel piti hiljaisen hetken kuolemanmuurilla eli paikalla, jossa vankeja teloitettiin ampumalla. Hän kävi myös paikalla, jossa vankeja murhattiin kaasulla se-kä krematorioalueella, jossa ruumiit poltettiin.Auschwitzin portilla on säilytetty vanha valheellinen teksti, jossa lukee "Arbeit macht frei" eli työ vapauttaa.Lukasz Gagulski / EPA
Merkel sanoi tuntevansa häpeää ja vakuutti Saksan hallituksen taistelevan antisemitismiä ja kaikenlaista vihaa vastaan.
– Näiden rikosten muistaminen on vastuu, joka ei koskaan lopu. Se on erottamaton osa maatamme. On osa kansallista identiteettiämme olla tietoinen tästä vastuusta, Merkel sanoi vierailun aikana.
Saksassa hyväksyttiin torstaina 60 miljoonan euron lahjoitus Auschwitz-Birkenaun museoalueesta huolehtivalle säätiölle.
Merkel on vasta kolmas Saksan liittokansleri,joka on vieraillut Auschwitzissa.Helmut Schmidt vieraili leirialueella vuonna 1977 ja Helmut Kohl vuosina 1989 ja 1995.
Neuvostoliiton joukot vapauttivat Auschwitzin viimeiset vangit 27. tammikuuta 1945.
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Saksan liittokansleri Angela Merkel ja Puolan pääministeri Mateusz Morawiecki las-kivat muistoseppeleet paikalle, jossa vankeja teloitettiin ampumalla. Lukasz Gagulski / EP
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‘Nothing can justify the crimes of Nazism’: Russian parliamentary speaker accuses West of ‘redefining’ causes of WWII
21 Nov, 2020 15:03
Main defendants as war criminals of the Nazi regime are surrounded by military policemen at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 © Global Look Press/dpa-Zentralbild / Agentur Voller Ernst
In a statement on Friday, the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin criti-cized“attempts by a number of Western politicians to reconsider the causes of World War II,” as well as to “question the decisive role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazism.”
According to Volodin, groups that have an “interest in the rehabilitation of Nazism and its ideologists are operating in the open.”
Nobody and nothing can justify the crimes of Nazism.
The comments came after the Russian parliament adopted a resolution earlier this week that marked the anniversary of the trials of Nazi leaders.The motion stated that it is unacceptable in Russia to “glorify Nazism in any way,” to desecrate monuments to Allied soldiers, or for countries to make those actions state policy. It also praised the wartime anti-Hitler coalition for “establishing an international security framework to save future generations from wars.”
Concerns have previously been raised over attempts of far-right political movements across a number of European countries to rewrite historic accounts of the era.
Poland, for example, attempted to distance itself from Nazi crimes that took place on its soil during the 1940s. Global leaders,historians and academics criticized a law in- troduced by the country’s right-wing government in 2018,that they claimed would cri- minalize references to the involvement of Poland or Polish people in the Holocaust. Camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor and Treblinka were established in what is now modern-day Poland, and only around one in ten of the country’s Jewish community survived the genocide.
Earlier this week at a virtual awards ceremony held by the Russian Jewish Congress Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that relations between the two coun-tries were “growing stronger” and praised efforts to ensure Holocaust remembrance in Russia.
https://www.rt.com/russia/504889-nazism-communism-history-rewrite/
Western attempts to rewrite history of WW2 & turn conflict into political football have incensed Russians, now Moscow strikes back
29 Oct, 2020 11:19 / Updated 23 days ago
The conflict ended 75 years ago. But the struggle over its history has perhaps never been as intense as it is today. In the first few decades after the war,the interpretation of it was fairly clear, and almost universally accepted: The war was a product of Ger-man aggression and the extreme ideology of the Nazis.The Germans were the crimi-nals; and the peoples of the Allied powers were the victims.Quantitatively, the largest group of these victims was in Eastern Europe - Jews and citizens of the Soviet Union, who the Nazis killed in the millions.
From the mid-1980s, a new narrative began to creep into public discourse in the West. This maintained that Nazism was not uniquely evil nor solely responsible for the war. Rather Nazism and communism were equally morally repugnant, and Ger-many and the Soviet Union were mutually responsible for the tragedy. The USSR, rather than being a victim of aggression, was itself one of the prime aggressors of the era.
https://www.rt.com/russia/504768-putin-ban-compare-ussr-nazi/
Putin announces support for ban on comparing USSR & Hitler’s Germany after book claims ‘Soviets were worse than Nazis’
28 Oct, 2020 10:50
“Unfortunately, we translate and publish such impudent, unsubstantiated, offensive dogs**t in our own country,” Yampolskaya explained. “The first book had 45,000 copies published, and the second 80,000. Both are popular with young people.”
In Yampolskaya's opinion, such moral assessments are “absolutely unacceptable” and should be made illegal. The suggestion was received positively by Putin, who explained that other countries have passed similar laws, such as criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide.
“I agree with your suggestions. We need to be careful, but of course, do it.” the President replied. “God himself probably told us to have appropriate mechanisms for protecting the truth about the very recent past.”
In recent years, President Putin has repeatedly stated his will to protect the legacy of the Soviet Union’s contribution to WWII, expressing his desire to fight attempts to “distort history.” On February 23 - a Russian holiday commemorating those who served in the country’s armed forces - the President noted that the Red Army helped liberate not only the USSR, but much of Europe.
“We will not allow this heroic page in history to be crossed out,” Putin said. “We will be exposing any attempts to distort history and to let the spirit of alliance and of combat brotherhood be consigned to oblivion.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/488453-propaganda-ussr-fascism-victory/
PROPAGANDA has diminished the Soviet Union’s role in victory over fascism – Russian foreign minister
12 May, 2020 15:19
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“To be frank, it doesn’t surprise me to hear such things,” he said, following an online meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers. “It’s not because we suspect that any particular politician is deliberately obscuring history - it’s a result of the proces-sing of public consciousness, and that includes politicians, as it turns out. They didn’t develop immunity from what is spread by propaganda.”
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He also noted how some are trying to hold the Soviet Union equally responsible with Hitler’s Germany for unleashing the Second World War.
In regards to the May 8 social media posts by the White House, Lavrov called the situation “unfortunate.”
“Of course,this is an unfortunate story,especially since just a couple of weeks ago, at the end of April, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the meeting on the Elbe, Presidents Putin and Trump adopted a joint statement giving a principled assess-ment of that victory, and the contribution this victory brought to the modern world order,” Lavrov said.
The meeting on the Elbe took place on April 25, 1945, when Soviet and American troops came into contact with each other on the Elbe River in East Germany.
Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Ministry posted a sharp rebuke on Facebook, explai-ning that “the topic of the saсred deeds of the older generation in that war must not turn into another problem in bilateral relations, which are going through hard times as it is.”
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Puolalaisen uuden Holocaust Memorial Museumin "tutkija" Marta Havryshko pitää holokaustia "seksisotana"...
https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/dr-marta-havryshko
Dr. Marta Havryshko
2019-2020 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow
“Gender and the Holocaust: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women in Nazi-occupied Ukraine”
Professional Background
Dr. Marta Havryshko holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). She is currently Research Associate at the Department of Contem-porary History of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research interests are primarily focused on se-xual violence during World War II and the Holocaust, women's history, feminism, and nationalism. Her recent publications include a book, Overcoming Silence: Women's War Stories (2018), as well as articles such as, "Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Se-xual Violence during Soviet Counterinsurgency in Western Ukraine (1944-1953)” in Euxeinos. Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region, 9 (2019); “Rape in Hi-ding: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Ukraine” in Holokost i Suchasnist, 17 (2019, In Ukrainian); and, “Love and Sex in Wartime: Controlling Women's Sexuality in the Ukrainian Nationalist Underground” in Aspasia, 12 (2018). Dr. Havryshko’s re-search has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD), Yahad-In Unum, Monash University, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, St. Gallen University, amongst others.
Fellowship Research
Dr. Havryshko was awarded a 2019-2020 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies for her re-search project, “Gender and the Holocaust: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women in Nazi-occupied Ukraine".This project applies a feminist perspective, placing gender at the forefront of analysis,and aims to provide space for women’s voices about their sexual victimization and agency. During her tenure, Dr. Havryshko seeks to analyze the patterns, forms, topography, dynamics, functions and consequences of sexual violence against Jewish women and girls in times of Shoah. Furthermore, her project analyzes how cultures ideas about the body,sexuality, reproduction,as well an ethnic, racial, national, religious, political identity, combatant status, the position of power contributed to perpetrators' motivations and strategies for sexual violence, as well as victims' / survivors’ experiences of these processes.
Residency Period: February 1 through August 31, 2020
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" 'Nobody in Poland cares about WWII anymore': Warsaw ignores 75th anniversary of its liberation from fascism17 Jan, 2020 13:23Get short URL
qOlder people are aware [of] who liberated our capital city, but the younger generation lives in ignorance.Q
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In the version of history that is promoted by the current Polish authorities, "the liberation of Warsaw (but also the whole of Poland) was part of a second occupation. The Nazi troops were replaced by the Red Army."
Glock considers this angle "dangerous" and "very confusing," especially considering the fact that the Nazis were planning a genocide of the Polish population.
"After Jews and gypsies [were sent] to gas chambers, the Poles were supposed to go there. The Red Army saved us from genocide, not only planned by the Germans, but also by the Ukrainian nationalists."
He said that the "saddest thing" is that his fellow historians do nothing to stop the rewriting of history "in fear of being accused of favoring Russia and President Putin."
'A key battle for the outcome of WWII'
Glock's evaluation of his colleagues appears to be quite accurate, as many other Polish historians approached by RT refused to discuss the matter. And the few who did respond asked that their
The Soviet offensive on the Polish capital "was brought forward… at the request of the Western allies and destroyed much of the German Army's capabilities." It was highly praised by British PM Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the iconic Yalta Conference in February 1945, the historian added.
Jones said he's confident that "it's always important that we keep debating the past," but it has nothing to do with "a tendency in recent times to simply blame the Soviet Union and now Russia for everything that goes wrong."
The fact is that during World War ll "we were all working together in common cause to defeat fascism," he said.
names be omitted, and simply relayed the stance of the country's authorities.
One of them said that the liberation of Warsaw isn't celebrated simply because nobody in Poland cares about World War II anymore. People are more interested in rising prices, the taxes they have to pay, and other daily concerns, he explained.
What the Polish authorities are trying to erase from history was actually an operation that was "enormously important" for the whole outcome of World War II, British historian Michael Jones told RT.
'Greatly shocked'
The liberation of Warsaw came shortly after the Battle of the Bulge, a successful counter-offensive that was launched by the Nazis in mid-December 1944. It saw four allied armies encircled and destroyed, leaving the anti-Hitler coalition (USSR, UK, US) "greatly shocked," he recalled.
Alliance between Berlin & Warsaw? New docs reveal what pushed USSR towards Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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