Simplistic Karski Footbridge. Provocative 1939 Zydokomuna Heralded

Confronting the Holocaust: Documents on the Polish Government-in-Exile’s Policy Concerning Jews 1939-1945, edited by Piotr Dlugolecki. 2022. Warszawa

Simplistic Karski Footbridge: What Was It? Judeo-Bolshevism in Action

This monumental work is a compilation of hundreds of documents of the Polish Government in Exile During WWII. There is quite a bit about the frivolous Jewish complaints about (what else?) antisemitism in the Polish Army in Exile. This is doubly ironic because both Jews and Poles were fighting a common Nazi German enemy, and because unkind words, spoken between various groups, are rather common in multi-ethnic armies.  They are hardly something to kvetch about. The “antisemitism” was just a made-up excuse for Jewish disloyalty to the Polish cause. For more on this, see:

AntiSemitism Anders Army Bogus. General Sosabowski Finally Gets Some Justice. Davies

THE SIMPLISTIC KARSKI FOOTBRIDGE

Nowadays, Jews zero-in on a simplistic Karski footbridge remark, wherein Karski supposedly said that there exists a narrow footbridge, between Poles and Nazi Germans, when it comes to policies against Jews. Let us take a closer look at this accusation.

In Document 27 (February 24, 1940), Karski (p. 46) introduced the “narrow footbridge” idea. It is obvious that Karski was speculating. He said absolutely nothing specific about how this “narrow footbridge” was supposed to materialize. He made generalized statements about the mere possibility of the “demoralized broad masses” (p. 46) which HYPOTHETICALLY could come together with the Germans (p. 47). He quotes some verbal innuendo: Polish peasants allegedly saying that “Germans are teaching the Jews a lesson” (p. 46) which, if true, is no different in kind from what Jews had said to Poles during the first Soviet occupation (1939-1941). In other words, the Karski footbridge is a bogus issue.

Finally, in all of this simplistic Karski footbridge, he could not possibly be referring to the German-made Holocaust in any case. At this time (early 1940), the Holocaust was still two years in the future in German-occupied Poland, and no one even imagined it at the time.

THE SIMPLISTIC KARSKI FOOTBRIDGE VANISHES

In Document 321 (January 1943), Karski reported that Poles, with the theoretical exception of extremist elements, almost unfailingly were sympathetic to the Jews in the face of what is now called the Holocaust. (pp. 582-584). He also assesses the POLICJA GRANATOWA (Polish Blue Police) as follows, “The Polish police that had watched over the ghetto until August of the last year were entirely removed because they could not bear the atmosphere of the Warsaw Ghetto and helped the Jewish population, while individual policemen, often losing their minds completely, abandoned their service.” (p. 582.) Emphasis in original.

THE 1939 ZYDOKOMUNA (JUDEO-BOLSHEVISM) WAS VERY REAL

Ironic to all the Zydokomuna denialists active today, top Polish government documents called attention to the fact and scope of the Zydokomuna from the very beginning, as is obvious from this compilation.

In Document 14 (December 6, 1939), it is written: “With great energy, Jews started to cooperate with the Bolshevik soldiers, who were initially rather timid and well-behaved. The Militia in the cities tends to be comprised of Jews, and they are the ones in command. The Militia together with the NKVD, which used to be called GPU, deals with arresting Poles and sending them to prisons, or deep into Russia.” (pp. 14-15).

The Communist Jews went out of their way to show their dominance. The Document continues, “When waiting in queues, altercations between Jews and Polish women are easily sparked, as the former always want to be served first. The women do not let them enter the lines, pushing then away instead, to which the Jews reply: ‘your time has come to an end, we are in charge now.’” (p. 15). The latter form of Jewish insolence has often been quoted as part of the Jewish-Soviet collaboration. For instance, see:

Ruthless 1939 Zydokomuna Provoked Lithuanian Hatred

In Document 27 (February 24, 1940), Jan Karski describes how the Zydokomuna went far beyond the exculpated “Jews merely improving their lot”. Karski specifies how it was harming the Poles, “It is worse, however, when they, for instance, denounce Poles, Polish nationalist students, Polish political activists, when they supervise the operation of the Bolshevik militias from behind their desks, or as members of the militia…” (p. 43).

Jan Peczkis

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