Posted on 04/19/2023 3:14:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers. It was the largest act of Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
... The desperate resistance of the Jews
Members of the ZOB joined with the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) and other resistance groups to rise up against the German occupiers. Their motto was that it was better to die fighting than be burned to ashes in the crematorium of an extermination camp.
After the deportation of some 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp northeast of Warsaw in the summer of 1942, there were only an estimated 50,000 people left living in the Warsaw Ghetto in spring 1943. The only way out of this ghetto hell seemed to lead to the gas chamber. The SS planned to dissolve the Ghetto in the course of 1943.
Fierce resistance despite lack of arms
The uprising began on April 19, 1943, with a shooting attack on an SS column by Jewish resistance fighters, mostly young men and women. The Nazis had marched into the Ghetto to start with its dissolution. It was the Jewish week of Passover.
The 1,000 Jewish fighters, who received some support from Polish partisans, had much too little weaponry and ammunition and were absolutely no match for the German troops. Despite this, they managed to engage the German soldiers under the command of the SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop in weeks of fierce fighting.
Rather death than surrender
The Germans set houses on fire with flamethrowers, and most of the Jewish resistance fighters were killed in battle or executed. The last inhabitants of the Ghetto were either murdered there or deported to the extermination camps of Treblinka and Majdanek.
When the bunker with the Jewish headquarters on Mila Street was discovered, the fighters committed suicide.
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Bless them. They are an example of how to stand up to a crazy dictator.
bkmk
I wonder at what point Hitler could have been crushed by the German people before he took control over the entire country. It would make a good doctoral thesis.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250798/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
The young Jewish boy to the right survived the war. The SS bastard with the submachine gun, whose last name was Bloch and known as “Frankenstein’’ in the Ghetto was tried by a Polish court and hung.
Russia didn't set up extermination camps in Poland, they liberated them.
Ukraine otoh embraced Nazism, and the Poles suffered horribly as a result.
Mordecai Anielewicz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Anielewicz
Several German generals were planning to take out Hitler in 1938.
Then Munich happened, and Hitler then became untouchable.
You’re absolutely correct about the Soviets waiting while Polish resistance in Warsaw was destroyed by the Nazis, but that occurred in 1944, while the Warsaw ghetto uprising happened in 1943.
The 1940 Polish officer corps, doubtless, would disagree with you. At least they would have had the Soviets not murdererd them at Katyn Forest.
Start right here.
The bottom picture is Not Stefan Bandera but one of Reinhard Gehlen, German lieutenant-general and intelligence officer. He was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East military intelligence service on the eastern front during World War II.
This fundamental error renders the post to be nothing but BS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen
Yes, many get the two confused.
The Soviets sent over a million Poles in their occupied part of Poland in 1939 to Siberia.
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