Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2006) 54-75
Keywords:
Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Underground press publications History 20th century
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Jews Periodicals
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Communists
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Refugees, Polish
Abstract:
Discusses two groups of Polish communists and their views on the extermination of the Jews, as reflected in their press. One consisted of Polish communists who fled to the USSR at the beginning of the war. The other group comprised communists who remained in Poland and who established underground activities. The group in the USSR had its own organization - Związek Patriotów Polskich (the Union of Polish Patriots). Its main ideologue was Alfred Lampe, and its propaganda was aimed at combating the anti-Sovietism of Poles. It used nationalistic, anti-German, and expansionist rhetoric, and was based on a strong alliance with the USSR, with a view toward a future communist regime in Poland. Its publications were "Nowe Widnokręgi" and "Trybuna Wolności". The communists under Nazi occupation in Poland (Gwardia Ludowa) published a periodical called "Gwardzista". All of these were strongly opposed to the Polish Home Army, which was under the command of the Polish government-in-exile in London. According to communist ideology, the Home Army was reactionary and responsible for antisemitism and for the murder of the Jews. All of the publications called for anti-Nazi resistance by both Jews and Poles, stressing that after extermination of the Jews the Nazis planned to exterminate the Poles. The communists wished to discredit their opponents and to justify the need for communist power in a postwar Poland.
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