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



Poles Collaborating with Nazi Germans are Greatly Exaggerated

Exploit Nazi Collaborator Ambiguity and Forgotten Communist Punishments

Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus, by Franziska Exeler. 2022. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London

Nazi Collaborator Ambiguity: Various Definitions. Show Trials a Spectrum. Communist Trial Injustices This work provides one-of-a-kind insights into the trials of Nazi collaborators (including the very definition of…

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100K–200K Germans Dwarf Collaborators. Service in German Administration Was Not Collaboration

Stalinism and Nazism, edited by Henry Rousso. 2004. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

Germans Dwarf Collaborators. The Holocaust Was THE German Project and German Act. Period. Don't Blame Poles With reference to the murdered Jews, author Philippe Burrin wrote, "...even those who carried out the executions--the guards at the concentration…

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German-Ruled Polish Blue Police (Policja Granatowa) Was Not Collaborationist: It Was Totally Penetrated by Germans. German Death Penalty Drove Betrayals of Jews, Not Antisemitism. Frydel

Collaboration in Eastern Europe during the Second World War and the Holocaust, by Peter Black et al. (eds.). 2019. New Academic Press, Vienna

No Polish Complicity in the Holocaust: The Truth About the POLICJA GRANATOWA ("Polish" Police): Very German-Saturated, and Rarely Collaborationist My review is limited to two articles…

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Zegota Well Organized. Betrayals of Jews. Polish Collaboration: Collaborator Liquidation VERY Difficult. Fugitive Jewish Banditry Provokes Jew Killings. Jews Hate Poles More Than Jews Hate Germans. Jews in Armia Krajowa. Iranek Osmecki

He Who Saves One Life, by Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki. 1971

Betrayals of Jews Hard to Stop. Jew-Killing Because of Banditry Although this book was published nearly 50 years ago, its information is timely because the same tired accusations against Poles, answered in this book, keep being repeated to this day.…

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Interesting First Commonalities in Collaboration

Collaborators, Informers and Agents in Occupied Krakow: A Contribution to Further Research, by Alicja Jarkowska-Natkaniec. 2020. THE CITY AND HISTORY 9(1)69-92

Commonalities in Collaboration: Polish Collaborators Very Much Like Jewish Collaborators. Falsely Equates Volksdeutsche with Ethnic Poles This article, on Polish collaboration with the Nazi Germans, contains some novel information.…

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August Decree Manipulations: Talmudic-Style Dual Justice (“Guilty” Poles Guilty, “Guilty” Jews Not Guilty)

Survivors of Nazi Persecution: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, edited by Susan Bardgett et al. 2024. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland

Communist Trials Selective: "Reliable" When They Support Jewish Holocaust-Related Accusations; "Unreliable" When They Indict Jews! It is ironic and self-serving for today's Jews (e. g, Andrew Kornbluth) to claim that Communist…

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Polish Collaboration Like Jewish Collaboration–The Psychology of Collaboration: Power in the Face of Powerlessness. Szmalcowniki Targeted Poles Too. Gondek

Polska Karzaca 1939-1945, by Leszek Gondek. 1988

The Psychology of Collaboration (Like Poles Like Jews): Seeking Power in the Face of Powerlessness. Doesn't Forget That Polish Blackmailers of Jews Also Blackmailed Poles.

PUNITIVE POLAND 1939-1945 is the title of this Polish-language book. This work is yet another refutation of…

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German Death Penalty Drove Betrayals of Jews. Fugitive Jews Betrayed Polish Rescuers. Poles Killed Jews–Why? DEFINITIVE WORK. Frydel. Zalc

Microhistories of the Holocaust, by Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann (eds.) 2018. Bergahn Books, New York

Poles Killed Jews: Direct, Very-Specific German Terror, and Not "Polish Anti-Semitism" is What Induced Poles to Denounce or Kill Fugitive Jews My review is limited to Tomasz Frydel and his chapter: "The 'Hunt for…

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Don’t Equate Nazi Collaborator and Proven Jew Killer

The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1944, edited by Arunas Bubnys. 2020. Genocide Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, Vilnius

Proven Jew Killer? Rarity of Local Collaborators. Notable Lithuanian Pushback At Holocaust Supremacism This book provides much detail on the German-made Holocaust in Lithuania, and I emphasize seldom-discussed information. Do not assume…

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Zydokomuna Exculpation Fails: Jews Did Not Fear 1939 Nazis. Polish Service in German-Appointed Administration Was Not Collaboration! Planned Extermination of Poles. Wallach

Bitter Freedom: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor, by Jafa Wallach. 2006

Zydokomuna Fear-of-Germans Exculpation Exploded: Jews Voluntarily Return to Nazi-Ruled Poland. Jewish Property Issues Not Black and White This work is moving, and includes a good deal of biographical detail. Owing to the fact that there are many reviews of…

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Do Not Mystify Antisemitism (Anti-Semitism). “Bury” Accusation Irony. Belarussian Police Was Voluntary and Thereby Collaborationist. Polish Deportees to Siberia: Soviet Archives Unreliable. Dean

Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44, by Martin Dean. 2000. St Martin's Press, NY

Do Not Mystify Antisemitism. Some Belarussians Chose to Help the Germans Kill Jews Nowadays, some Belarussians moralize about Romuald Rajs "Bury", a Polish freedom fighter of the ZOLNIERZE…

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No Polish Quisling Because Poles Refused. German-Ruled Polish Blue Police (POLICJA GRANATOWA) Was Not Collaborationist: It Was Forced. Ukrainian Police Was Voluntary and Thereby Collaborationist. Census Falsified. Markiewicz

Unlikely Allies, by Pawel Markiewicz. 2021. Purdue University Press, Indiana

Quisling Governments Clarified. Local Police Forces Under the Nazis: Do Not Confuse Involuntary Service With Collaboration This book focuses on Ukrainian tendencies of collaborating with Nazi Germany. I focus on deeper issues. YES, VIRGINIA, THE NAZI GERMAN AUTHORITIES DID…

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Polish Collaboration Negligible With Nazis: DEFINITIVE WORK. Less Than 0.1% of the Ethnic Polish Population Collaborated! August Decree Manipulations. Passive Genocide on Poles. Brechtken

Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s, by Magnus Brechtken, Władysław Bułhak and Jürgen Zarusky (eds.) 2019. Wallstein Verlag, Gottingen

No "Polish Complicity in the Holocaust" in Any Rational Sense of the Term: Polish Collaboration Was Very Rare Some authors…

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Poles Not Bystanders. Western European Collaboration Much More Important Than Polish Collaboration. Hitler and Capitalism: No Direct Link. Stone

Histories of the Holocaust, by Dan Stone. 2010. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York

Poles Not Bystanders. Do Not Exaggerate Polish Collaboration. Do Not Blame Capitalism for Hitler Most of the material in this book is quite familiar. I focus on some insightful facts and perspectives. CONFRONTING HOLOCAUST-RELATED POLONOPHOBIA: DO…

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Polish Collaboration Negligible With Nazis: Top German Official. Poles Not Exterminated: Why? Polish Forced Laborers Needed. Top Nazi Appreciates Polish Suffering More Than Do Many Jews! No Polish Quisling Because Poles Refused. Piotrowski

Hans Frank's Diary, by Stanislaw Piotrowski. 1961

Top SS Man Schongarth: Virtually No Polish Collaboration! Polokaust Why Not Worse: Why the Polokaust Did Not Exterminate All Poles: Need of Forced Laborers. For Shame: Nazi German Candor on Polish Suffering Exceeds Jewish Recognition of the Same Stanislaw Piotrowski, the only…

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Betrayals of Jews: Polish Collaborators Were Forced. “Poles Killed More Jews Than Poles Killed Germans” Absurdity. Pattinson

War in a Twilight World: Partisan and Anti-partisan Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1939-45, by Juliette Pattinson. 2010

Poles Collaborating With the Germans Had Usually Been Broken By Gestapo Tortures, and Then Been Given the Choiceless Choice Between Death or Collaboration With the Nazis This book examines three areas of German-ruled…

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Polish Collaboration Negligible. Holocaust Supremacy in Action. German Guilt Dilution and Obfuscation. POLIN MUSEUM Admittedly For Indoctrination. Zionist Ben-Zion Dinur Converges With Hitler! Polonsky

New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands, by Antony Polonsky et al. (eds.) 2018

No Significant Polish Collaboration With the Nazis. The Rest of the Volume is the Standard Judeocentric Narrative on Jews and Poles This volume is hardly "new directions" as advertised, but…

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No Finger Pointing: Bad Poles and Good Poles, Like Bad Jews and Good Jews. Magal

From Miracle to Miracle: A Story of Survival, by Alicia Fleissig Magal. 2011

Treats Poles and Jews as Individuals, Not as Members of Groups This short book is written in an unusual format. It involves an adult daughter eventually acquiring an interest in her mother's experiences, and then, upon interviewing…

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Betrayals of Jews. Polish Collaboration: Collaborator Liquidation VERY Difficult. Jews in Home Army (Armia Krajowa). All Guerrillas Were Bandits a Myth. Bukalska

Years of Turmoil: From Early Years in Lodz through the Ghetto, the Underground, and the Warsaw Uprising, to Israel's Wars: A Life, by Patrycja Bukalska, Stanislaw Aronson. 2010

The Grave Difficulties of Identifying and Liquidating Nazi Collaborators: The Definitive Work. A. K. Guerillas Were Not Bandits Stanislaw Aronson ("Staszek", nom…

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Jew Killing WWII By Poles Contextualized. ARMIA KRAJOWA General Rowecki “Grot” Captured Owing to a Betrayal by Polish Collaborators. Williamson

The Polish Underground 1939-1947, by David G. Williamson. 2012

Finally! Polish Denunciations and Killings of Fugitive Jews are Contextualized. No Death Penalty Fear Double Standard. Comparing Danish and Polish Rescuers is Ridiculous This single volume covers major developments and actions of the Polish Underground State, largely from a…

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German-Ruled Polish Blue Police (Policja Granatowa) Was Not Collaborationist. A. K. Fights Polish Collaborators. Hempel

Pogrobowcy Kleski, by Adam Hempel. 1990

The "Polish" Police, Under the Nazi German Occupation, Was Not a Collaborationist Force. Even Though Jews Commonly Paint It as Such The 40,000-strong (p. 23) Polish Police (hereafter PP), more accurately the German-created POLNISCHE POLIZEI, acquired the appellation Blue Police (POLICJA GRANATOWA) from…

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Polish Collaboration: an Excellent Introduction. ALL Peoples Had Collaborators, Including the Jews. Piotrowski

Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration With Occupying Forces, and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947, by Tadeusz Piotrowski. 1997

A Solid, Objective Introduction to the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939), and to WWII Collaboration By ALL Nationalities. Polish-Jewish Relations: In 20 Years Nothing Has Changed This book, now written over twenty…

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Occasional Polish Collaboration Perhaps But No Polish SS. Stein

Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-1945, by George H. Stein. 1984

No Polish SS. Guess Which Major German-Ruled European Nation Had No SS Units. Give Up? It's Those Leftmedia-Maligned "Fascist" Poles Probably the most eye-opening contribution of this scholarly and comprehensive book is the list of non-German nationalities…

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Poland Complicity Debunked. Fugitive Jewish Banditry Drove Betrayals of Jews and Jew Killing: Definitive Work. German Blame-Shifting Rebuffed. Polish Collaboration Negligible: Polish Collaborators Too Rare For Nazis to Use. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, by Christopher R. Browning. 1993

Scholarly Work Effectively Refutes the Media "Polish Complicity in the Holocaust" Spin and the Widely-Mischaracterized New Polish Antidefamation Law ("Holocaust Law") Although this book was now written many years ago, it is…

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Polish Betrayals of Jews in Ignorance. Polish Administration Serving Germans Was Not Collaboration. Speedy Holocaust Inhibits Polish Aid to Jews. Gat

Not Just Another Holocaust Book, by Eli Gat. 2009

Suppressed Holocaust Survivor Book Challenges Zionist Spin. Poles Betrayed Fugitive Jews in Ignorance The only United States library that owns this book, according to WorldCat, is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in Washington. D. C. (USHMM), and they refuse…

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Jews Not Nobility Exploited Peasants. No Polish Quisling Because Poles Refused. Witos

Moje Wspomnienia, by Wincenty Witos. 1964

Prominent Polish Government Peasant Leader on Polish Peasants. Features Their Repudiation of Communist Propaganda. The Peasant and the Church, Jewish Economic Hegemony, etc. MY RECOLLECTIONS is the title of this Polish-language book. My review is limited to Volume 1. Its coverage ends about 1914.…

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Collaborator Irrelevance: Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt for the Jews. Mantra That “Nazis Could Not Have Conducted the Holocaust Without Local Help” is Baseless. Selections at Treblinka. Orenstein

I Shall Live: Surviving Against All Odds 1939-1945, by Henry Orenstein. 1987. Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York, London

Collaborator Irrelevance: Details on the Large-Scale Direct German Finding of Jews in Hiding The geographic setting of this book is the German-occupied Kresy. In terms of specifics, it is in the…

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Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt for the Jews. AntiSemitism Silenced Polish Jew-Rescuers a Myth. Subsumed Holocaust? No! Berenstein

Assistance to the Jews in Poland, by Tatiana Berenstein. 1963

Individual AND Collective Polish Aid to Jews. The Myth of Poles Subsuming Jewish Deaths as "Polish Citizen Losses". No Betrayers Needed By Germans to Find Fugitive Jews!  This book, published in 1963, describes the Nazi German persecution of the Jews…

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Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt for the Jews. Fugitive Jews Betrayed Polish Rescuers. Jewish-Nazi Collaboration. Sunday Closing Laws. Burakowski

Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust, by Ella Burakowski. 2015

The Myth of the Greedy Paid Polish Rescuer. Jewish Nazi Collaboration. Betrayer-Less German Arrests of Fugitive Jews. German-Imposed Death Penalty Decisive Author Ella Burakowski, born long after the war, is the daughter of Shoshana and her sister…

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Ulma Family: “24 Markowa Jews Killed” is Hearsay. Collaborators Not Needed in the Nazi Hunt for the Jews: German Gendarmes, Not Villagers, Mainly Hunted for Jews. Blue Police (POLICJA GRANATOWA) Forced. Fugitive Jews Betrayed Polish Rescuers. August Decree Manipulations. IPN. Gradzka-Rejak

The Holocaust and Polish-Jewish Relations: Selected Issues, by Martyna Gradzka-Rejak and Adam Sitarek (eds.) 2018. Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw

Details on German Gendarmes--the Real Jew Killers of Fugitive Jews. Poles Were Forced to Hunt for Jews! Germans Take Polish Hostages. Josef Ulma Implications The media-touted Jan Grabowski has gone…

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