In order to better realize the paradoxes cultivated by the utmost right-wing “realpolitik” at the level of the declaratively hated EU institutions, it is worth looking at respective debates which have passed through Poland in the days immediately prior to yesterday's announcement of the Confederacy's AfD alliance in the European Parliament.
This week, between the anniversary of the Kielce pogrom and the Jedwabne pogrom, the judaic Quarterly quarterly announced a fresh number under the editorial board of Prof. Jan Grabowski. The series of debates on Polish participation in the Holocaust is already well known, as torn board of abortion discussion – there simply comes a time in the year that Grabowski must fight the raid of a extremist right fighting for the good name and interest of Poland, even if her most beautiful minds, from Prof. Żerko to Prime Minister Morawiecki, did not contact the title page of his books. The judaic Quarterly issue itself has not yet been published, so the right continues its hysterical traditions of blind criticism.
I know that besides not all of you read Grabowski's books, Engelking, Tokarska-Bakir or Zukowski, That's why I'm going to reconstruct the dispute in telegraph. Representatives of the fresh school of Holocaust Research, whose origins affect a discussion about Neighbors Jan Tomasz Gross, among others, deals with the influence of anti-Semitic propaganda (saturated by the Church) in the Second Poland on attitudes of Poles towards Jews during the war and the scale of Polish participation in the Holocaust at various stages, including the 3rd stage, after the fall of the uprising in the ghetto. However, the researchers' interests go far beyond these issues and the "publicist" that opponents frequently cast against scientists with very different backgrounds.
However, to the right, these arrangements are of no importance. Against the bunchonic and repeated for the time being, it is unknown which assurances by Mateusz Morawiecki that “he is simply a historian”, The propaganda umbrella of the alleged historical policy, developed by PiS and satellites at least since the construction of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, has small to do with past research, it makes Polish society immune to the cognition of the context of the not-humane behaviour of Poles in the last years of planet War II.
As shortly as the subject returns, the arrogant choir of people worried about falling in the virtual ranking of cool nations responds – the architects of the Holocaust were Germany, they built concentration camps, the Nazi 3rd Reich. The thing is, no 1 in their right head questions it, and surely not the historians and historians of the Holocaust. This investigation is about something completely different, but the defensive responses that we can see in historical debate are very symptomatic.
Although even a teenager rapidly realizes that nations cannot in rule boast only of the glorious past, and should cooperate with 1 another despite historical events, in defenders of a good name repents the belief that the Poles would never do this. What's the matter, but as quoted by Prof. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir in a reconstructive pogrom of the Kielce book Under the curse Ignacy Herman's statement, who said that I could not see these people armed with nails on the boards and pieces of sheet metallic of Poles chasing the Kielces of erstwhile prisoners of concentration camps and Stalinist camps, said: "I could not see these people, but I heard that, grinding their teeth, they said that Jews had to finish to the rest, finish what Hitler started" – it was a hallucination defiling the good name of Poles, as is known by genetically hated Germans, especially Nazis.
A pact almost like Ribbentrop-Beck
Let's get back to the present. Today, in the 1920s, the rage at all proposition of collaboration between Poles and Nazis with the final solution is the domain Catholic alliance PiS, Confederacy and Church. Grzegorz Braun on the second circular of applause over his own national identity of supporters demolishs the talker during the lecture by GrabowskiProfessor Żerko calls Grabowski "An anti-Polish boy of a bitch", others scope in equally proven ways, like the celebrated "tree set" and listing from memory the names of over 7,000 Poles honored with the title of the Righteous among the nations of the world.
At the same time, for the same right-wing politicians, cooperation with the alternate for Germany in the European Parliament is not so much a reason for translation, but Common pride. Finally, "AfD is not anti-Polish, it is pro-German". And if so, let us leave her pro-Russian orientation on the side, although if the fascist organization from Germany were anti-Russian, it would most likely be easier to sale this alliance to voters as an effort to reconstruct the Ribbentrop-Beck pact, which is the future cooperation of the 3rd Reich and II of Poland in the military march on the russian Union.
As with that poker game, it would be hard to defend yourself against the arguments that “our” ally does not have alternatively subtle plans for us either. Recently, Polish observers of German politics carried a slight brow erstwhile Vice-President AfD Alice Weidel announced that her organization enjoyed the top support in “central” Germany, referring to the erstwhile GDR. This may have been due to the far-reaching east-septicism of the group, and the national Republic of Germany does not have the east part, as any hotels belonging to superstitious owners do not have the thirteenth floor.
Of course, calling East Germany "central" does not necessarily mean a revision of the borders, although undoubtedly the taste of the case adds the fact, that many AfD members stubbornly call Polish cities Stettin, Danzig or Breslau. It may besides be a bit amazing that a fewer days after “German” Prime Minister Tusk received a bęcki from commentators for not fighting with Scholz fantasmatic reparations, his top critics cross swords with a organization supported by Polish nationalists Erika Steinbach, who entered politics 50 years ago, questioning the designation of the Polish-German border on Nysa and Odra.
However, as Sławomir Mentzen explains, "we had a choice between this group and the absence of any affiliation." The choice was so clear and no 1 should blame the Confederacy for the deficiency of pragmatism and the tendency to make hard compromises.
Moreover, AfD has at least adequate “realism” not to fix on future pacts, but alternatively to praise those that have occurred, even if historians justice them with understandable skepticism. Like the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, which was celebrated in 2021 in the Bundestag by 1 of the leaders of Alexander Gauland's group, who at the same time criticized Poland for not allowing russian troops to be present on its lands to halt Hitler's temptations.
From today's perspective, the greater problem for Poles is most likely the cooperation of the AfD with neo-Nazi and business environments, which propose “remigration” even for those who gained German citizenship. At the beginning of the year, group leaders had to explain their participation in 1 of the meetings with these impact groups, alive removed from Order of the day Eric Vuillard. A fewer days later, Germany reacted to the emergence in the popularity of radicals by mass street protests. Polish patriots a fewer months later reacted by reaching out to cooperation in the European Parliament.
Displacement symptoms
So how it is that highly cultural and balanced Polish extermination researchers are “anti-Polish motherfuckers”, and the most critically – going to handicrafts – are reviewed by Polish co-workers of the German group, whose members have a evidence among others, whitening of SS? MEP of the Confederation Stanisław Tyszka a fewer years ago, he convincedthat AfD is the "effect of Merkel's mistakes", present attempts to quietly cover up the existence of this statement.
The Confederate so cooperates with the pro-Russian and anti-Polish "effects of Merkel's mistakes", and Tuska judges from reverence and religion for cooperation with Merkel herself.
In this way, we return to outrage at all survey showing that Poles, murdering more Jews than Germans during the war, they did not “behave as necessary” that during the Kielce or Kraków pogrom the majority did not gain a tree in Yad Vashem. But in the last months of the war and shortly after it, during the "great terror," In fact, many dangers were threatened by Poles, including death. In addition, elites and the press have built for good 20 years an anti-Semitic rage of people who abruptly found themselves in the utmost reality of war and doom.
Deputy Marshal Bosak at the time his comrades joined forces with the beginning anti-Polish organization missing Hitler, he did not have a firearm attached to his head, but calmly Googled free pornography in his office. His and his colleagues' electors are all the same, in the end the Confederate and the AfD combine primarily the effectiveness of reaching out to the recipients on Tik Toku and the language dehumanizing migrants they want to push back for their east border.
But others could think about it when, in consequence to articles on Poles' participation in the Holocaust, we hear that Poles are genetically incapable of "tactical alliances" with German chauvinists or the desire to "finish Hitler's work". due to the fact that why would average Poles be little flexible in this respect than their political representation?
