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The Jews and the "Disavowed Soldiers"
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August Grabski
The attention paid in recent years to “disavowed soldiers” (żołnierze wyklęci) in Polish historical education has aroused very diverse reactions. On the one hand, the cult of these members of the underground who continued after the Nazi defeat to fight the new communist-dominated government and the Red Army which assisted it has been actively supported not only by the most important institutions in the state, including the president, the prime minister and the speaker of the Sejm (parliament), but also by the main state institution responsible for the investigation of the recent past, the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej—IPN). There are no any doubts that the establishment of the National Day of Remembrance for the Disavowed Soldiers was completely at odds with the postwar experiences of Polish Jews and declarations by the leaders of their community, which in the postwar political conflict wholly supported the Communist government.
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Veterans, Victims, and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland
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In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.
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Collaboration in a “Land without a Quisling”: Patterns of Cooperation with the Nazi German Occupation Regime in Poland during World War II
2005 •
Klaus-Peter Friedrich
Astonishingly, we still do not have a history of collaboration in Poland during World War II. Klaus-Peter Friedrich shows that the building blocks for such a history already exist, however. They are scattered throughout the contemporary Polish press and studies on the Nazi occupation regime. Examples include institutionalized cooperation (Baudienst, Polish Police), ethnically defined segments of the population (Volksdeutsche), informal support of Nazi projects on ideological common ground (anti- Semitism and anticommunism), and the stance of the Polish peasantry as well as the Roman Catholic Church. Friedrich concludes that collaboration eludes study because of a mental image according to which ethnic Poles were the foremost victims of the occupiers and heroically resisted them. Questionable views of national self-interest keep Polish society from coming to terms with the past. Nevertheless, debates on “Polish collaboration” continue to recur—as they have since 1939.
