Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).

Facing the decisive struggle between Nazism and Soviet communism for dominance in Europe, in 1942/43 Polish communists sojourning in the USSR espoused anti-German concepts of the political right. Their aim was an ethnic Polish ‘national communism’. Meanwhile, the Polish Workers’ Party in the occupi...

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Main Author: Klaus Peter Friedrich
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Published: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydow 2006-12-01
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description Facing the decisive struggle between Nazism and Soviet communism for dominance in Europe, in 1942/43 Polish communists sojourning in the USSR espoused anti-German concepts of the political right. Their aim was an ethnic Polish ‘national communism’. Meanwhile, the Polish Workers’ Party in the occupied country advocated a maximum intensification of civilian resistance and partisan struggle. In this context, commentaries on the Nazi judeocide were an important element in their endeavors to influence the prevailing mood in the country: The underground communist press often pointed to the fate of the murdered Jews as a warning in order to make it clear to the Polish population where a deficient lack of resistance could lead. However, an agreed, unconditional Polish and Jewish armed resistance did not come about. At the same time, the communist press constantly expanded its demagogic confrontation with Polish “reactionaries” and accused them of shared responsibility for the Nazi murder of the Jews, while the Polish government (in London) was attacked for its failure. This antagonism was intensified in the fierce dispute between the Polish and Soviet governments after the rift which followed revelations about the Katyn massacre. Now the communist propaganda image of the enemy came to the fore in respect to the government and its representatives in occupied Poland. It viewed the government-in-exile as being allied with the “reactionaries,” indifferent to the murder of the Jews, and thus acting ultimately on behalf of Nazi German policy. The communists denounced the real and supposed antisemitism of their adversaries more and more bluntly. In view of their political isolation, they coupled them together, in an undifferentiated manner, extending from the right-wing radical ONR to the social democrats and the other parties represented in the underground parliament loyal to the London based Polish government. Thereby communist propaganda tried to discredit their opponents and to justify the need for a new start in a post-war Poland whose fate should be shaped by the revolutionary left. They were thus paving the way for the ultimate communist takeover
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Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).
Zagłada Żydów
Zagłada
Sowieci a Zagłada
prasa komunistyczna
Katyń
antysemityzm
title Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).
title_full Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).
title_fullStr Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).
title_full_unstemmed Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).
title_short Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).
title_sort nazistowski mord na zydach w prasie polskich komunistow 1942 1944
topic Zagłada
Sowieci a Zagłada
prasa komunistyczna
Katyń
antysemityzm
url https://zagladazydow.pl/index.php/zz/article/view/180
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