Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

The Captive Mind, by Czesław Miłosz, Jane Zielonko (Translator). 1990

Insights Into Wartime Demoralization as a Cause for Polish Betrayals and Killings of Jews. Political Correctness, Now Part of Cultural Marxism, Originated From Communism

The author touches on many matters related to different periods of Polish history. For instance, he affirms the fact of the extermination of the original Prussians by the Germans. (p. 225).

GERMAN BRUTALITY BREEDS CRIMINALITY AMONG POLES

Czeslaw Milosz, who lived through the German occupation and who fought in the ill-fated Soviet-betrayed Warsaw Uprising (1944) focuses on the horrors of WWII, and the extreme brutalities of the German occupation. Although he does not discuss the occasional killings and betrayals of Jews by Poles during this time, he is well aware of the fact that the savagery of the German occupation had bred a criminality among many Poles. He writes that, “Respectable citizens used to regard banditry as a crime. Today, bank robbers are heroes and the killing of a man presents no great moral problem to them. The nearness of death destroys shame.” (p. 28).

This elementary fact corrects those who have tried to make a contrived issue of the fact that the SZMALCOWNIKI (blackmailers of Jews) were not limited to socially-marginal Poles. And this does not even factor the German death penalty for any semblance of Polish aid to Jews, and even for failing to report fugitive Jews.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: A COMMUNIST THOUGHT-CONTROL INVENTION NOW USED BY LEWAKS AND CULTURAL MARXISTS

Milosz notes that the Communist attitude to western cultures paralleled that of Hitler’s attitude towards “degenerate art.” (p. 48). Finally, the reader may be astonished by the vintage of the “modern” term political correctness. The Communists were using this very phrase to steer thinking and expression in the direction they wanted. (p. 126). In fact, Lenin himself used political correctness. See:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/mccarthyism-a-bogeyman-horowitz/