Martin Antonenko
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In the "new Poland" of the Kaczinski potato you risk up to three years imprisonment if you publish such incidents as the following:
From Dealing With the Truth:
The Jedwabne Massacre
On July 10, 1941, the inhabitants of the north-west Polish town of Jedwabne murdered at least 400 of their fellow citizens of the Jewish faith!
After Poland's military defeat in autumn 1939, the defeated country was divided up between the German Rich and the Soviet Union on the basis of the "Hitler-Stalin Pact"...:
Jedwabne fell to the Soviet Union - the Hitler army, that had originally taken the city ...
... cleared it again.
As in the rest of Poland, the Soviet occupiers immediately set about destroying the existing bourgeois order as completely as possible.
The NKVD secret service in particular used brutal violence against the old political and social elites: landowners, clerics, bourgeois politicians and others were arrested, tortured, deported and, in many cases, shot straight away.
Like all members of religious communities, the Jews were also persecuted - at the same time, who had belonged to a tolerated minority in old Poland, were offered unexpected opportunities for advancement among the new masters if they denied their religion and were devoted to Stalin and the party.
The word quickly spread among Catholic Poles about Jews as supposed "beneficiaries" of the Soviet occupation regime.
Just one day after the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, Jedwabne was reoccupied by units of the Hitler Army on June 23, 1941 ...:
At first it remained quiet in the city - even if many Poles were already pondering "revenge" on the Jews and sharpening their knives in their minds.
On July 10, 1941, the front had already shifted far to the east, in Jedwabne only a few German soldiers and a handful of police officers remained.
On the morning of that day the Poles forcibly drive their Jewish fellow citizens together on the market square ...
Already there, the first are beaten and some are murdered.
The rest of the Jews are driven into a barn outside the village ...
... locked up there and burned alive ...:
Their property is then looted and taken over by Poland. Only a few Jews who had previously been able to hide survived the pogrom.
There are considerable differences of opinion about the number of victims of the massacre: Some sources speak of 1,600 victims (especially the communist-Polish data after 1945), others of "only" 300 to 400 deaths ...:
The sources agree, however, that the Germans only watched the pogrom (and made film and photo recordings of it), but otherwise remained completely passive.
After the war, the new Polish authorities charged 22 Jedwabne residents with murder.
Karol Bardon: Death penalty, commuted to 15 years imprisonment after Bolesław Bierut's petition for clemency
Jerzy Laudański: 15 years imprisonment
Zygmunt Laudański: twelve years imprisonment
Władysław Miciura: twelve years imprisonment
Bolesław Ramotowski: twelve years imprisonment
Stanisław Zejer: ten years imprisonment
Czesław Lipiński: ten years imprisonment
Władysław Dąbrowski: eight years imprisonment
Feliks Tarnacki: eight years imprisonment
Roman Górski: eight years imprisonment
Antoni Niebrzydowski: eight years imprisonment
Józef Zyluk: eight years imprisonment
On June 13, 1950, two of the convicts were acquitted by an appeals court.
**continued next post**
From Dealing With the Truth:
The Jedwabne Massacre
On July 10, 1941, the inhabitants of the north-west Polish town of Jedwabne murdered at least 400 of their fellow citizens of the Jewish faith!
After Poland's military defeat in autumn 1939, the defeated country was divided up between the German Rich and the Soviet Union on the basis of the "Hitler-Stalin Pact"...:
Jedwabne fell to the Soviet Union - the Hitler army, that had originally taken the city ...
... cleared it again.
As in the rest of Poland, the Soviet occupiers immediately set about destroying the existing bourgeois order as completely as possible.
The NKVD secret service in particular used brutal violence against the old political and social elites: landowners, clerics, bourgeois politicians and others were arrested, tortured, deported and, in many cases, shot straight away.
Like all members of religious communities, the Jews were also persecuted - at the same time, who had belonged to a tolerated minority in old Poland, were offered unexpected opportunities for advancement among the new masters if they denied their religion and were devoted to Stalin and the party.
The word quickly spread among Catholic Poles about Jews as supposed "beneficiaries" of the Soviet occupation regime.
Just one day after the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, Jedwabne was reoccupied by units of the Hitler Army on June 23, 1941 ...:
At first it remained quiet in the city - even if many Poles were already pondering "revenge" on the Jews and sharpening their knives in their minds.
On July 10, 1941, the front had already shifted far to the east, in Jedwabne only a few German soldiers and a handful of police officers remained.
On the morning of that day the Poles forcibly drive their Jewish fellow citizens together on the market square ...
Already there, the first are beaten and some are murdered.
The rest of the Jews are driven into a barn outside the village ...
... locked up there and burned alive ...:
Their property is then looted and taken over by Poland. Only a few Jews who had previously been able to hide survived the pogrom.
There are considerable differences of opinion about the number of victims of the massacre: Some sources speak of 1,600 victims (especially the communist-Polish data after 1945), others of "only" 300 to 400 deaths ...:
The sources agree, however, that the Germans only watched the pogrom (and made film and photo recordings of it), but otherwise remained completely passive.
After the war, the new Polish authorities charged 22 Jedwabne residents with murder.
Karol Bardon: Death penalty, commuted to 15 years imprisonment after Bolesław Bierut's petition for clemency
Jerzy Laudański: 15 years imprisonment
Zygmunt Laudański: twelve years imprisonment
Władysław Miciura: twelve years imprisonment
Bolesław Ramotowski: twelve years imprisonment
Stanisław Zejer: ten years imprisonment
Czesław Lipiński: ten years imprisonment
Władysław Dąbrowski: eight years imprisonment
Feliks Tarnacki: eight years imprisonment
Roman Górski: eight years imprisonment
Antoni Niebrzydowski: eight years imprisonment
Józef Zyluk: eight years imprisonment
On June 13, 1950, two of the convicts were acquitted by an appeals court.
**continued next post**
