{"id":310,"date":"2019-02-28T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/?p=310"},"modified":"2019-09-17T20:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:07:29","slug":"the-war-for-concerned-awareness-and-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/the-war-for-concerned-awareness-and-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"The War for Concerned Awareness and Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Piotr Witakowski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Defamation of Poland<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncentenary commemorating the regaining of Poland\u2019s independence calls for the\nuse of reference to historical sources and analysis of events over the last 100\nyears. The wave of anti-Polonism increasingly spreading on both sides of the\nAtlantic forces us to do so. Several decades of falsifying history and\nslandering Poland on both sides of the Iron Curtain has successfully petrified\nthe level of awareness also in many countries of the free world. In this false\nmind-set, Poland is not only a place, but also a perpetrator, or at a minimum,\nan accomplice of the Holocaust together with some altogether unspecified Nazis.\nUntil recently, it seemed that wars could take place on land, the seas and in\nthe air. For some time now, though, we have also been witnessing war in\ncyberspace. But the oldest of wars is the war in the sphere of information &#8211;\nthe war for human, concerned awareness. It is time to stop lying to ourselves\nand admit that Poland is at war with false information\/fake news and that we\nare being attacked by the combined forces of anti-Polonism.&nbsp; Poland&#8217;s enemy centers are located not only\nin the USA and Israel, but also in other countries. They include mainly\nopinion-forming academic and journalistic circles, part of the avant-garde of\nthe media, which for its anti-Polish version of history is \u201cconquering\u201d for\nthemselves the level of awareness of successive circles. In this information\nwar, lasting for several decades now, Poland has only been successful at being\npersecuted and acquiescing to slanderers. The damage done to Poland in this war\nhas been enormous. Even among Poland\u2019s friends, there is a consensus that Poles\nare anti-Semites, and support for this claim is also found by those who come to\nPoland and encounter the &#8222;propaganda of shame&#8221; led by an infamous\nnewspaper and its adherents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t\nknow what will happen next, but without active counter action to the\nanti-Polish offensive, we will be reduced to the role of simply being guilty\nnot only for the Holocaust, but also the outbreak of World War II, with obvious\nconsequences in terms of material claims. So far, no plan has been formulated\nfor an anti-defamation counter-attack. The Jedwabne case has been left at a disgraceful\npoint for Poland. The Civic Committee for the Resumption of Exhumations in\nJedwabne, established by Dr. Ewa Kurek, garnered more than 60,000 signatures on\na petition for the resumption of exhumation works [<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>]. With no\nsuccess. In addition, there is Prof. Jan Grabowski from Ottawa, a Poland\nslanderer, who does not encounter any objections from the Polish state. A\nconference entitled: \u201e<em>The New Polish\nSchool for Research on the History of the Holocaust of Polish Jews<\/em>\u201d was\norganized in Paris on February 21-22, during which &#8222;scientists&#8221; from\nthe Polish Academy of Sciences&#8217; Center for Holocaust Research were announcing\nto world public opinion that Poles are anti-Semitic murderers and co-initiators\nof the Holocaust [<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>].A\ngroup of Poles protested against these lies, but these protests were condemned\nboth by the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences [<a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a>]and by the\nScientific Council of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish\nAcademy of Sciences [<a href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a>].Mr.\nTomasz Gross, who claims that during World War II Poles killed more Jews than\nthe Germans did, was awarded the Knight&#8217;s Cross of the Order of Merit of the\nRepublic of Poland by President Aleksander Kwa\u015bniewski&#8230;. In such a situation,\nthe anti-Polish statements of Israeli politicians Netanyahu and Katz are not\nsurprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In each and every war, it is necessary to identify the enemy&#8217;s targets\nand its means of attack in order to defend one\u2019s position. Clearly, the aim of\nthe attack on Poland is to introduce into the social consciousness stream of\nall the major nations the conviction that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<sup>o<\/sup> Poland is responsible for the murder of Jews during World\nWar II,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<sup>o<\/sup> The reason for this murder was the innate anti-Semitism of\nthe Poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A closer\nlook at the way of attacking Poland allows one also to identify the means used\nin this attack. The main means of attack is to falsify the historic reality of\nthe German Nazi occupation in Poland. The lesser direction of the attack is the\nfalsification of Polish-Jewish relations during&nbsp;\nthe interwar period. At the same time, the fate of Jews on Poland\u2019s\nterritory during the period of the First Republic of Poland, which Jews\nconsidered it to be a Jewish paradise (<em>Paradisus\nIudaeorum <\/em>in Latin) and during the period when Poland was partitioned (I\nwrote about it extensively in the study \u201ePrawdy Polak\u00f3w\u201d [<a href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a>]), is being concealed. Also, what\nPolish-Jewish relations looked like even during World War II is being concealed\nin different areas other than the German occupation zone. Let us repeat &#8211; the\nmain brunt of the attack of anti-Polonism boils down to the hypocrisy of what\nthe German occupation in Poland looked like. Only then and only in this area.\nA lie so positioned in time and space is the essence of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto this lie, even if there were some &#8222;Nazis&#8221; on Polish territory\nduring the war (of course, not Germans, only \u201cNazis\u201d are mentioned), the Poles\nwere in the same situation as the French, Belgians or Danes and they could have\nhelped the Jews without any risk, but during that time, they willingly joined\nthe Nazi oppressors and murdered Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will\nnot be able to fend off this attack by recalling testimonies from other periods\nof history or from other areas, for example, by showing Poland&#8217;s contribution\nto Israel&#8217;s independence. [5]. We will not be able to fend off\nthis attack by recalling testimonies from other periods of history or from\nother areas, for example, by showing Poland&#8217;s contribution to Israel&#8217;s\nindependence. The only effective defense is to squelch this lie by\ndemonstrating on the international forum how the German occupation in Poland\ndiffered from the occupation of France, Belgium or Denmark. This means not only\nshowing the martyrdom of the Polish nation, but also the need to demand\ncompensation and, above all, to punish those guilty of numerous crimes\ncommitted by Germans against Poles and Polish citizens of Jewish descent.\nWithout demanding punishment of those guilty, all explanations will be\nunbelievable and treated as an attempt to &#8222;whitewash Poland&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Crimes against the Polish nation<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All issues related to the crimes committed against\nthe Polish nation during the Second World War are of particular importance\nhere. Let us hope that <em>The Parliamentary\nGroup for Estimating the Amount of Compensation Due to Poland from Germany for\nDamage Caused during World War II <\/em>(Pol.: <em>Parlamentarny Zesp\u00f3\u0142 ds. Oszacowania Wysoko\u015bci Odszkodowa\u0144 Nale\u017cnych\nPolsce od Niemiec za Szkody Wyrz\u0105dzone w trakcie II Wojny \u015awiatowej<\/em>, established in 2017 and headed by Mr. Arkadiusz\nMularczyk, will place on the international forum\u2019s agenda, the question of\nGerman war reparations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8222;<em>Report\non Poland&#8217;s War Losses and Damages in the years 1939-1945<\/em>&#8221; (Pol.: \u201c<em>Sprawozdanie w przedmiocie strat i szk\u00f3d\nwojennych Polski w latach 1939 \u2013 1945<\/em>\u201d), prepared in 1947 by the War Compensation Office, was\nresumed in 2017 by Professor Mariusz Muszy\u0144ski (member of the Scientific\nCommittee of the Smolensk Conferences) reprinted and provided with footnotes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total value of material losses suffered by\nPoland because of the Third Reich was estimated at 258 billion zloty (in August\n1939 zlotys) &#8211; the equivalent of 49 billion USD from that time. At the current\nexchange rate, it amounts to PLN 2.738 trillion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But these are only the material\nlosses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to our defense should be to\ndemand justice for the greatest Wehrmacht crime committed during the Second\nWorld War. I am referring to the Wola Massacre (Pol.: Rze\u017a Woli). Within a few\ndays during August 1944, German troops under the command of General Heinz\nReinefarth murdered 30 to 65 thousand defenseless inhabitants, men, women and\nchildren in the Warsaw district of Wola, without any connection with the\nongoing battles in the city. This crime was never punished, and after the war\nthis same Reinefarth later became the mayor of the German town of Westerland on\nthe island of Sylt during the years 1951-1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GursztynKsiazka.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GursztynKsiazka.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GursztynKsiazka-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GursztynKsiazka-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Wola Massacre is a classic example of the <strong>crime of genocide<\/strong>, so it is a crime\nthat is not time-barred. At the same time, it is the largest single crime\ncommitted by the Wehrmacht during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that, despite the\npassing of time, this crime demands that it be tried before an international\ncourt and that the opinion of the international community be restored to the\nmemory of those tens of thousands of people who were brutally murdered during\nthat time. Leaving this crime unpunished places a burden on the consciences of\nthe living. The murder of the inhabitants of France\u2019s Oradour (642 victims) or\nCzech Lidice (340 victims) is well-documented and was the subject of post-war\ncourt trials, while the greatest crime of the Wehrmacht is still awaiting\ntrial. Paradoxically, judging this crime before an international court will\nalso be&nbsp; a piece of convincing evidence\nof how Poles were treated by the Germans. On this occasion, it will also be\npossible to show that Auschwitz was built not for the annihilation of Jews, but\nfor Poles. The extermination of Jews in Auschwitz &#8211; Birkenau [<a href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a>]only began in 1942 (after the Wannsee Conference\n[<a href=\"#_ftn7\">[7]<\/a>]), that is, after nearly 3 years of mass killing\nof Poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is shocking that this greatest crime of the\nWehrmacht not only was not punished nor has its occurrence led to any form of\nredress, or even be judged, but that Poland never even demanded that its\ncriminal perpetrators be brought to justice and punished. It is a disgrace to\nthe Polish state and a shame to the living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that in the current international\nsituation, where Poland and Poles, and in particular its World War II history,\nare being defamed with impunity for political gain, a public demand for a trial\naddressing this crime will help the international community to understand\nPoland&#8217;s fate. It will also place in a completely different light the issue of\nthe reparations that we Poles deserve. Above all, however, it will restore the\nmemory of the murdered and defend the dignity of the living. It is extremely\nimportant to bring those guilty of the Wola Massacre before an international\ntribunal, and to appoint judges from Israel, among others, to constitute the\nmakeup of such a tribunal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Possibility of Judging the Wola Massacre<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At my request, an eminent specialist in\ninternational law, Professor Tadeusz Jasudowicz, prepared an expert opinion on\nthe possibility of bringing the greatest Wehrmacht crime to justice for it to\nbe finally judged and punished, and that the victims might be adequately\ncompensated. The expert report carried out by Professor Jasudowicz shows that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) The Wola Massacre was\nan act of genocide, so it is not time-barred, and:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) There is currently no\njudicial authority in the international sphere that can bring this crime\nto&nbsp;&nbsp; trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question is, if not us, who will\nstand up for these thousands of brutally murdered people? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is my firm belief that it is up\nto us. I believe that we have the obligation not only to remember their death,\nbut also to demand a fair trial associated with this crime and its\nperpetrators.&nbsp; If, therefore, there is no\ncompetent court for this crime, then it should be established. My attention was\ndrawn to the Supreme National Court and the information given on its website [<a href=\"#_ftn8\">[8]<\/a>] &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Supreme National Court&nbsp;\n<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8211; (Pol.: Najwy\u017cszy Trybuna\u0142 Narodowy) \u2013 A Polish special\ncourt established on February 18, 1946 and acting on the basis of the Decree of\nJanuary 22, 1946 on the Supreme National Court (Journal of Laws of 1946, No.\n59, item 327, Journal of Laws of 1947, No. 32, item 143, and Journal of Laws of\n1949, No. 32, item 238), dealing with the imposition of penalties for fascist-\nNazi German criminals and traitors of the Polish Nation. The Tribunal proceeded\nin the years 1946-1948.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the\nfact that the court\u2019s functioning was not suspended nor terminated by any legal\nact, the Tribunal operated only until 1948. Successive trials against war\ncriminals were already pending before common courts. It should be emphasized\nthat the Tribunal was established without any previous legal precedent. Turns\nout, it was possible. Secondly, the Tribunal was never formally abolished.\nThus, nothing stands in the way of the resumption of its functioning.&nbsp; Nothing stands in the way of including judges\nfrom outside of Poland to this end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The existence of this Tribunal would be of great\nimportance for the consideration not only of the Wola Massacre, but also of\nmany crimes against the Polish nation which have not been tried so far. It must\nbe acknowledged that the period of the People&#8217;s Republic of Poland and more\nrecent years were not periods of full sovereignty of the Republic of Poland,\nand as a result could not demand full respect for its due rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, only now does the issue of war reparations\nbecome a matter to be dealt with. Simultaneously working to establish an\ninventory of material losses and the determination of the amount of\ncompensation due to us for the incurred war time losses, it is necessary to\ndraw up a list of all crimes committed against the Polish nation, to present it\nto the world and to demand justice. It is probably necessary to draw up such a\nlist for Soviet and Ukrainian crimes as well. However, raising the issue of\ngenocide committed during the Wola Massacre would be of great importance in\npreventing the defamation of Poland and the Polish nation. It is demanded from\nall of us who are living as those who have been brutally murdered cannot stand\nup in court on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warsaw, 5 March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translation &#8211; Jan Czarniecki<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> https:\/\/citizengo.org\/pl\/84089-petycja-do-sejmu-rzeczpospolitej-polskiej?m=5&amp;tcid=54276754&amp;fb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>\nhttps:\/\/wprawo.pl\/2019\/02\/27\/skandal-prezes-polskiej-akademii-nauk-broni-klamstw-wyglaszanych-na-konferencji-w-paryzu\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> http:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/pl\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> http:\/\/www.ifispan.pl\/oswiadczenie-rady-naukowej-instytutu-filozofii-i-socjologii-pan\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a>\nhttps:\/\/wpolityce.pl\/historia\/392784-prof-piotr-witakowski-gdy-nas-znieslawiaja-czas-przypomniec-podstawowe-prawdy-polakow-dotyczace-wspolnej-historii-polakow-i-zydow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> https:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a>\nhttps:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Konferencja_w_Wannsee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a> https:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Najwy%C5%BCszy_Trybuna%C5%82_Narodowy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-very-dark-gray-background-color\" href=\"http:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/english\/\">Slaughter of Wola<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Piotr Witakowski The Defamation of Poland The centenary commemorating the regaining of Poland\u2019s independence calls for the use of reference to historical sources and analysis <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/the-war-for-concerned-awareness-and-honor\/\" title=\"The War for Concerned Awareness and Honor\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informacje"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genocidewola44.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}