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Sketches in Poland, by Frances Delanoy Little. 1914. Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York

Poland Under Jews. Heavy-Handed German (Prussian)  Rule Over Poland

Author Frances Delanoy Little was a British traveler who visited Poland in 1914. She makes some pithy observations, including Poland under Jews, which I quote:

POLAND UNDER JEWS: HUSHED-UP JEWISH MISCONDUCT

“…thirty years ago these peasants were miserably poor, and all of them deeply in debt to the Jews, who by mortgages and so on were gradually obtaining possession of their small bits of land. Now it is a point of honor in this country not to sell land to a Jew…” (p. 31).

“All these stalls are kept by Jews, who stand trying to catch one’s eye by a cringing smile, and if one hesitates a moment and then moves on, they seize one by the sleeve and scream at one to buy.” (pp. 89-90). Poland under Jews?

In Krakow, “…swarming with Jews, whose enormous and tasteless notice-boards, everywhere advertising their presence, cover the walls and the carving around the doorways and windows.” (p. 210). Poland under Jews? For more on such Jewish conduct, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/antisemitism-polish-real-causes-johnston/

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/boycotts-of-jews-contextualized-norman/

THE PRUSSIAN BOOT

“It was only in May, 1908, that the Polish language was forbidden at public meetings even of purely literary or scientific societies. The Law of Expropriation, which renders the condition of a Polish landowner one of daily instability and fear, was passed in 1908; and in June, 1907, the ‘police law’, which forbids a Pole to build a house even on land which has been his for generations. This is an example of the way in which Prussian Tyranny advances, and escapes notice by the rest of the world behind a mask of justice.” (p. 245).

“…here is Posen [Poznan]…one would say it was a German town–statues of Bismarck and Emperor William…German newspapers at the railway bookstalls…The Polish ones are not allowed to be sold there!…The old front with portraits of the Polish Kings was destroyed.” (p. 255).

“Polish shopkeepers in Polish streets (bearing German names) display their wares behind German inscriptions. The time-honored names of Polish towns and hamlets are Germanized beyond recognition…” (p. 342).

LIKE THEN LIKE NOW: THE WEST HAS FORGOTTEN POLISH SUFFERING

“…years of silence have obliterated even the name of Poland from the minds of many people in Western Europe. The majority of the English nation is ignorant of the past glory of Poland, equally as of the sorrow and suffering that have been its lot during the last 150 years…scarcely a dozen books on the Polish question have been published in England; scarcely an English writer, with the exception of those who have travelled in Poland, have troubled to mention that unhappy country.” (pp. 319-320). Nowadays, Poland’s suffering is forgotten in the West in favor of the Jews’ Holocaust.

PARTITIONS: 3-WAY FOREIGN AGGRESSION, NOT “POLISH” DISORDER

“The kingdom, however, had the supreme and almost insurmountable disadvantage of having no natural boundaries or defenses, and being surrounded by three despotic powers…The growing internal disorder in Poland was not greater than that it in France…nor greater than that in South Germany during the same period…” (p. 329).