While Russian influences are stigmatized jointly by all, however, there is no agreement about the fact that those influences are actually succumbing, and representatives of both sides of the political dispute accuse each another of yielding to Russian influences, even submission to Russian interests. For German influences, narration is completely different. Only 1 side of the Polish political scene indicates this threat, the another 1 is officially unaware of this threat, depreciating it, which may even prove that it is usually the German influences that it succumbs to and submits to.
Germany has for many years pursued a well-thought-out, policy of reducing its guilt, even clearing itself of any historical work for the crimes committed. Since the fact of the crime itself cannot be denied, the effective purification of work requires that the blame be passed on to individual else. And Germany chose Poland as the victim of this evil plan. prof. Waldemar Chrostowski in his book “Church, Jews, Poland” published in 2009. The book is simply a conversation, an interview with priest Chrostowski by Grzegorz Górny and Rafał Tiche. The operation to whitewash and cover German wines for the crimes of planet War II was already ongoing, but it was inactive in the first phase. Therefore, I utilized the word that the professor's words were prophetic due to the fact that he foresaw perfectly what is happening in front of our eyes. Well, Father Chrostowski described the following 3 stages of this process:
Phase one
Jews and Poles are victims and Germans are clearly perpetrators
Phase two
Jews are inactive victims, Germans are perpetrators, but Poles are presented as witnesses of tragedy,
which allows to accuse Poles of inactivity, of allowing crimes
Stage 3
Narration in which Jews stay victims, but Poles are included in the group of co-conspirators,
And the function of Germans is already marginalized, brought to the function of free witnesses of events
1 of the many planned and thoughtful elements of this staged process was the gradual replacement of the terms of German extermination camps first the definition of extermination camps on Polish lands, until the intent of defining Polish extermination camps. The celebrated speech by the minister, about horror, education, Barbara Nowacka about Polish Nazis who built labour camps, was a seal which complements the 3rd phase of the process of taking work from Germans. But this narrative, in addition to gradually tamed audiences with a changed message, besides required the introduction into circulation and public awareness of alleged hard evidence. And specified a hard evidence was to be the crime in Jedwabne, where on July 10, 1941 the Germans murdered Jews surviving in that village. The crime was highly cruel, as after the shooting of a group of men, people gathered mostly women and children were subsequently burned alive in the barn. As part of this staged process, in 2000, Jan Tomasz Gross published a book "Neighbours", accusing Poles of doing this crime. The book's title indirectly equated the crime in Jedwabny with the crimes of Ukrainians who murdered Poles, their closest neighbours in Volyn. 1 year later, in 2001, president Aleksander Kwasniewski in a shameful way apologized on behalf of the Polish State for the engagement of Poles in the crime in Jedwabne. Shameless, due to the fact that even if Poles actually participated in this crime, it was not done either on behalf of or from inspiration of the Polish state.
The issue of crime in Jedwabny became a key component of the 3rd phase of narrative, which was to lead to a direct social reflection on the participation of Poles in the Holocaust. On the 1 hand, a spiral of accusations was unleashed trying to even increase the number of victims of this crime from about 300 to even 1,600 people. On the another hand, historical investigation was undertaken, which showed that the Jedwabne crime was part of the activities of the German safety Office and was carried out on the basis of Operation Order No. 1 issued on 29 June 1941. An order issued by Reinhard Heydrich, head of that office. As part of this action, a pogrom of Jews was carried out in respective towns on the Szczuczyn – Wąsocz – Radziłów – Jedwabne line. The pogrom was made by the German Komando (Einsatzgruppe), in which there were besides Polish-speaking Prussians. Referring to contemporary events, it can be said that they were “Our boys” so glorifying present in the Museum of Gdańsk. There is no clear evidence that Poles surviving in Jedwabne were active in the crime, and thus recalled in Gross' literary fantasy neighbors of murdered Jews.
From the position of decades and in the face of the German policy of marginalizing its own wines, the process of commanding the historical fact is not easy. As part of the relativisation of German crimes, it is stated that the casings found during the partial exhumation must not come from the German MG42 rifle, as this firearm was not introduced until 1942 to equip the German army. There are besides historians who revealed papers that prototype copies of these rifles described with the symbol MG39/41 were already utilized in the summertime of 1941 in support units, precisely in specified cases as the Jedwabne Einsatzgruppa.
The only chance to discover the full fact about the crime in Jedwabne is to exhume all the victims. any Polish historians are seeking this, but judaic communities are opposed to it, citing spiritual considerations. Judaism has a command to violate graves, it is recognised that the deceased is entitled to eternal rest, and exhumation causes the spirit of the deceased to suffer. But there is no another way to truly discover the fact than to exhume. The dispute concerns not only the actual perpetrators of this crime, but even its scale. In the first phase of the narrative, it was said that Germans murdered 300 people in Jedwabne, now it is alleged that Poles murdered Jews and not 300 but 1,600 people. The scale, the number of victims, does not diminish the fact of the crime. But establishing during the exhumation the actual number of victims will show which of the narratives is based on historical premises, and which is guided by political intentions of conversations.
In this context, the fact that during this year's anniversary celebrations in Jedwabne on Thursday 10 July, Grzegorz Braun demanded the necessity of exhumation is apparent and consistent with the Polish state ration. But just a fewer hours earlier, giving an interview for Wnet radio, Braun denied the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He did not deny the fact of killing prisoners in Auschwitz, but denied the scale of the crime and their mass and barbaric character. This is how Grzegorz Braun detonated the Jedwabny problem. For the next fewer or even a twelve years, no 1 will dare to demand, essential from the point of view of the Polish reason for the state, the exhumation in Jedwabne, due to the fact that he will be immediately included in a group of dazes promoting the Oświęcim lie with Braun. Braun utilized a classical influence agent maneuver. Compromise, even publicly, in 1 matter, in order to undermine the credibility of another substance in which he is engaged on the right side. By colloquially burning the subject. And he did it perfectly.
But it is besides worth considering Braun's message about gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau without connecting it with the issue of Jedwabny. Who is served by negating the scale of crimes committed in the extermination camp by the Germans. Is this not a communicative consistent with the 3rd phase of prof. Waldemar Chrostowski's planned and described, in which the function of the Germans is marginalized and brought to the function of free witnesses of events? Listening to Grzegorz Braun, I was reminded of Radosław Sikorski in 2020: "Putin is not Stalin – president Putin if he murders it retail alternatively than wholesale. This is simply a large difference, especially for victims”.
The search for specified differences is crucial not so much for victims as for perpetrators who want to marginalize their faults in their historical policies. It is crucial to the Germans and to the Russians. So do both of you, Grzegorz Braun and Radosław Sikorski, have the same .........?
Mr Bogdan
