Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (2010) 389-413
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Periodicals
Abstract:
Examines reactions to the Nazi murder of Jews in the Polish underground press, divided into seven political camps: the Delegature of the Polish Government in Exile and AK, the left, the right, the Catholic camp, the peasants' movement, the "Sanacja" camp, and the communists. At one end of the spectrum of reactions there was horror mixed with an admission that the Poles could do nothing against it; at the other end there was malicious joy over the fact that one group of national enemies was destroying another. The genocide of Jews most often interested the underground papers as a portent of a much more monstrous crime - a genocide of Poles. The publications contained many traditional prewar anti-Jewish clichés; at the same time, the new situation provided the non-left press with a new motif: Jewish passivity and cowardice in the face of genocide. The wartime press coverage of the Nazi Judeocide had an impact on postwar Polish-Jewish relations. In particular, the notion that the Poles, not the Jews, were the only genuine victims of the Nazis, was adopted by postwar communist Poland from the wartime discourse.
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