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The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944

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This Mr. Krakowski was a political officer responsible for communist political propaganda in Polish People's Army until 1966. His wife worked in KC PZPR (Central Comity of Polish Communist party.) He was a part of of the most brutal and inhumane regimes that ruled Poland after World War II. Among his friends were human beasts like Jakub Berman, Jozef Rozanski-Glodberg, Jozef Swiatlo-Fleichfarb, Helena Wolinska, and Salomon Morel. I am not surprised that person who actively participated in extermination of the best Polish patriots wrote a book that has no historical value. It not even a fiction! It is propaganda in its worst!

Although much of the material in this book appears to be of historical value, some of it is clearly contrary to historical facts and appears to reflect a Polonophobic prejudice on the part of author. For instance, the murder of Jews hiding from the Germans by members of the Polish guerrillas is mentioned, but not the fact that these murderers were court-martialed by the Polish underground and executed. More serious is Krakowski's outright misrepresentation of Polish underground leader Bor Komorowski's order for Polish guerrillas (the AK) to kill bandits. Krakowski insinuates that this was a veiled order to kill Jews in hiding. There is not a shred of evidence to support Krakowski's rather scurrilous charge. To the contrary: Anyone who actually lived in the Polish countryside during the German occupation will testify to the fact that bands of bandits, both Jewish and Polish-gentile, roved the countryside, robbing and sometimes killing Polish farmers. The Polish guerrillas (AK) took it upon themselves to protect the Polish rural population in this regard.

Arrived quickly! I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the Holocaust.