POLAND - WORLD WAR II

September again... beautiful and warm... like in thirty nine...

Even today, more than half a century after that fateful September of 1939, one may hear these words being expressed thoughtfully and almost instinctively by some of my countrymen, who witnessed the outbreak of the Second World War on the Polish soil. September of 1939 that witnessed an unparalleled eruption of the Nazi and Soviet murderous instincts - in the heart of Europe, the heart of civilized World. September of 1939 that embossed on our and future generations' collective memory pictures of unprecedented heroism, unprecedented roguery, and also immeasurable suffering and immeasurable destructions. September of 1939 that changed the face of our Country and our Nation. And changed our individual lives forever.

Bozenna Kirkpatrick
MIEDZY NAMI nr. 9(55), September, 1999 - on the 60th Anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War

OFIARY "BOHATERA" LUFTWAFFE
Leaning over lifeless body, a Polish peasant girl mourns her sister, machine-gunned in the fields during an air raid.
September, 1939

 

KONWENCJA GENEWSKA W INTERPRETACJI SOWIECKIEJ
Te warstwy zwlok reprezentuja ponad 20 000 oficerow Wojska Polskiego, funkcjonariuszy Policji Panstwowej, inteligencji i innych obywateli polskich, zamordowanych w masowych egzekucjach przez rezym sowiecki (ZBRODNIA KATYNSKA).
Kwiecien-Maj, 1940

 

SZUBIENICA, ALBO PLUTON EGZEKUCYJNY
Taki los czekal z rak hitlerowskich i sowieckich oprawcow wiele tysiacy obywateli polskich.

 

HOTEL "TEHERAN" - Roosevelt i Churchill podaja Stalinowi najlepsze danie, jakie dla niego przygotowali - POLSKE
Od czasu Teheranu prawde mozna bylo znalezc, niestety, w hitlerowskiej propagandzie - ale ani strzepu przyzwoitosci w postepowaniu anglo-amerykanskich aliantow. Roosevelta piesek salonowy - Churchill - stwarzal pozory, ze nie mogl w Teheranie zrobic nic i gral role postronnego widza. Sam Roosevelt nie stwarzal zadnych pozorow - jego postepowanie bylo postepowaniem skonczonego, podstepnego, wyrachowanego lajdaka.

UNHOLY ALLIANCE I
The signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of Nonaggression. The Secret Supplementary Protocol to the Pact defines the line of dismemberment of Poland and other countries of the Central Europe by Nazi Germany

In response to September 1, 1939 German aggression on Poland her allies, Great Britain and France, bound by bilateral agreements, declared war on Germany (September 3, 1939). As enthusiastic crowds in the streets of London praised the government for finally declaring war on Nazi Germany, and rushed to recruitment centres, 'sober' heads in the British Parliament prevailed - taking aggressive actions against the Nazi state could cause damage to the private property of German citizens (only few years later, the British Royal and US Air Forces became expert practitioners in this particular field adding names, like Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the annals of mass-murder of civilian population). And the morale of French soldiers, going to the front, was reflected in the refrain of a song, they loved to sing - We don't want to die for Polish Danzig (only few months later, facing Nazi Germany again, they were not that keen of dying either, even for their own country).
The 'phoney war' (as it has been named for the effort made), that followed the declaration of war on Nazi Germany, included: massive bombardment of German cities by the British Royal Air Force with propaganda leaflets and French, less than skin deep, invasion of German territory. The French, unopposed and almost ignored by the Germans, withdrew hurriedly, when Soviet Russia joined Nazi Germany actively and invaded Poland on September 17.
In fact, Great Britain and France assisted the Nazis and Soviets in the September 1939 slaughter of Poland by successfully sabotaging her efforts to defend herself (General Mobilization). One political commentator summarized this 'war': Having friends like Britain and France that country (Poland) is in no need for enemies, really.

UNHOLY ALLIANCE I

Tehran Conference - Roosevelt and Churchill selling Poland and other countries of the Central Europe to Stalin. Central Europe to become Soviets' booty for almost half a century.
Tehran, November 1943

Invasion of Poland was Hitler's first major war campaign which met unexpectedly fierce resistance. From the very first day of the war the Nazis were unpleasantly surprised by high number of casualties and heavy blows to their war machine. In retribution, they turned against the Polish civilian population. New born babies, children, women and elderly became easy targets for the 'heroes of swastika' - bombed, mowed by machine gun fire, herded in barns and burned alive. Hitler needed not only Lebensraum - he also wanted revenge. Humans were not the only target of aggression - anything on the Polish soil was an enemy: apartment buildings, houses, hospitals, churches, villages, crops in the fields and farm animals. A totalitarian regime waged a totalitarian war.

The Soviets followed in their Nazi friends' footsteps. They aimed at Polish intelligentsia, army and police officers, scientists, politicians and state officials - an obstacle to be eliminated in order to facilitate the replacement of the existing democracy by communist regime. Murderous terror, to which the Polish population on the occupied territories was subjected, was meant to make the imposition of the Soviet regime easier. More than 1.5 mln Polish citizens were deported to Soviet forced labour concentration camps, where most of them died of freezing cold, starvation and disease. The Katyn Forest Massacre exemplifies the methods employed by the 'progressive' Soviet system and became a symbol of an unprecedented genocide.

Lidice - a Czech village, which gained world-wide attention for the fact, that all its inhabitants were either murdered on the spot or condemned by the Nazis to certain death in concentration camps. Similarly, the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, whose inhabitants were murdered in 1944.
Hundreds of Polish villages were treated in the very same, barbaric way. But, who knows about that... who remembers their names today...? Mass executions of Polish citizens, whether by the Nazis or Soviets, occured on a daily basis. Lucky were those hanged or shot on the spot, as thousands of others went through weeks and months of torture before death liberated them from the torment of life.

The Second World War ended officially on May 9, 1945. NOT FOR EVERYONE!
From 1943 in Teheran, the so-called Western Democracies worked tirelessly and secretly with their ally - the Soviets, on the 'New World Order'. In exchange for Soviet cannon fodder, Great Britain and the United States of America cooperated eagerly and cynically in enslaving their former, not needed anymore, ally - Poland, and the rest of Central Europe by the Soviets.
The Poles... the Hungarians... the Rumanians... the Slovaks... the Croatians... the Serbs... the Slovenians... the Bulgarians... the Estonians... the Latvians... the Belorussians... the Lithuanians... the Ukrainians... and others - for many nations the Second World War did not end on May 9, 1945!
For almost half a century, they fought for their Freedom against one, common enemy - Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia's allies - Great Britain and the United States of America - countries, which claimed friendship with Poland before and during the war, lost their lustre in the eyes of many - if they ever had it before to begin with.

In the early fifties, after Stalin's death, the United States recompensed Poles for the freedom of their country, stolen by the Western Allies at the Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, in a typically thick-skinned impulse of American pragmatism - flooding Poland with shipments of melted, salted butter. The one-gallon buckets bore proudly an inscription in several languages: A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN NATION TO THE POLISH NATION. Generous, indeed!
The taste of that American 'gift' lingers in Poland to this day - and it is still BITTER.

The following numbers show casualties (combined: civilian and military, as percentage of entire population) suffered by various nations in the Second World War: Poland - 20% (inflicted by Nazis and Soviets), Soviet Russia - 11.2%, Yugoslavia - 11.1%, Germany - 7.4%, Japan - 2.5%, Netherlands - 2.3%, France - 1.4%, Great Britain - 0.9%, USA - 0,2%.
In addition to the figures given above, hundreds of thousands of Poles had been murdered by the Soviets and the puppet 'Polish' regime since the beginning of the Soviet 'liberation' of Poland in January, 1944.

 

POLAND - WWII