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

Five Chimneys, by Olga Lengyel. 2011

At Auschwitz. The Eventual Full-Fledged Polokaust By Mass Sterilization. The Nazis Were Not Consistently More Cruel to Jews Than to Non-Jews

THE ONGOING NAZI GERMAN MURDER OF POLISH PRIESTS AND OTHER POLES

Large numbers of Polish clergy were sent to Auschwitz in the early years of the camp. However, Lengyel reports many more arriving in 1944 (pp. 108-110). They were often put to death immediately; the remainder being subject to degrading humiliations and tortures. Polish children were frozen to death (p. 210) and mostly Polish women were used the Germans for vivisection experiments. (p. 176).

NO CONSISTENT SPECIAL NAZI HATRED FOR JEWS

Recent claims, that Jews and homosexuals were consistently treated the most harshly, are fallacious. Lengyel says: “It would be difficult to say which of the internees were treated worst. Most of us, whether political, racial, or criminal prisoners, were reduced to existence on the animal level. But the Jews and the Russians were treated cruelly. On the other hand, the German internees, whether common-law criminals, perverts, or political prisoners, benefited from certain privileges. They provided large numbers of the camp functionaries; and, no matter what their duties, were never chosen in the dreaded `selection’.” (p. 44). There was no gay Holocaust. In fact, homosexuals were also victimizers: “The prisoners, men or women, were frequently abused the German barrack leaders, among whom was a high percentage of homosexuals and other perverts.” (p. 185) The camp “beasts” included Irma Griese, an SS woman (p. 40) and bisexual, who forced her way on female inmates and then disposed of them when she got tired of them. (pp. 185-186).

What about RASSENSCHANDE? Ironically, the Germans forgot their racism when they included the use of Jewish blood for transfusions to save the lives of wounded German soldiers. (p. 176)

AFTER THE HOLOCAUST THE FULL-FLEDGED POLOKAUST: THE EXTINCTION OF THE POLES THROUGH MASS STERILIZATION

Once finished with the Jews, the Germans intended to do the same to the Slavs, albeit by different methods. After describing gruesome experiments designed to perfect mass-sterilization (pp. 177-179), Lengyel comments: “Once we asked an Aryan German inmate, a former social worker, for the basic reason for the sterilization and castration. Before his captivity he had been active in German politics and had known many eminent people. He told us that the Germans had a geopolitical reason for these experiments. If they could sterilize all non-German people still alive after their victorious war, there would be no danger of new generations of ‘inferior’ peoples. At the same time, the living populations would be able to serve as laborers for about thirty years. After that time, the German surplus population would need all the space in these countries, and the ‘inferiors’ would perish without descendants.” (pp. 179-180)