alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (06/12/84)
The book this is excerpted from is: The Second World War, a Politico- Military Survey, edited by Major-General I. Zubkov, Progress Publishers, Moscow. Translated from the Russian by Vic Schneierson. There is no copywrite date, but internal evidence show it is later than 1957. [In the previous message, i gave excerpts from the first section of the chapter entitles: Allies Land in France. The second, and last, section concerns the 20 July attempt on Hitler's life, and the Jewish insurrection in their Warsaw Ghetto. Here are exceprts from it.] 2 While pulling their punches in the war theatres, the U.S and British governments were engineering fresh anti-Soviet intrigues and treacherous acts of political diversion in the capitalist countries of Europe against the democratic movement. U.S. intelligence in Europe, directed from Switzerland by Allen Dulles, the master spy, was clearing the ground for a big conspiracy. Its ultimate purpose was to safeguard Hilter Germany from total defeat and bar the road westward to the Soviet Army with fascist troops. Einheit, the theoretical journal of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, described the purport of the plot thus: "The conspiracy was not motivated by a desire to overthrow the fascist dictatorship and to replace it with democratic authority, nor by a desire to abandon piratical imperialistic policy and replace it with a policy of peace. It was motivated by a desire to salvage the militarist imperialist system" The conspirators were quite prepared to sacrifice Hitler. They intended to put him out of the way, but to preserve his policy, to preserve the fascist system. There was to be only one alteration in German policy - a reversion from war against the U.S.A and Britain, to peace..... [In the omitted paragraphs, it becomes clear the the "conspiracy" the author is refering to is the 20 July attempt on Hitler's life] It was quite clear by the summer of 1944 that Hitler Germany would be smashed by the Soviet Union without outside assistance. That explains the Anglo-American landing in Normandy, and Allen Dulles's ordering the conspirators to go through with their coup d'etat... [The chapter now turns to a discussion of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.] The Polish emigre government seized upon these antipopular reactionary plans and suggested to the British the U.S. governments that it would undertake a "political actions" in Poland and execute a rising in Warsaw. The blueprint of the Warsaw uprising was thrashed out in a private talk between Mikolajczyk and Churchill. ... It was a reckless undertaking aimed against the burgeoning People's Poland and the Soviet Army. What they eventually did was tantamount to a diliberate slaughter of Polish patriots and the destruction of Warsaw. Surely they knew that the nazis had a considerable panzer force in the area. ... The Warsaw population showed utmost devotion to the cause of freedom, having been led to believe that the uprising was begun by an accord with the Soviet command. But the strenght was unequal. The U.S. and British governments failed to extend any assistance to the uprising. ... The Polish people paid dearly for the Warsaw uprising. The loss in life ran into 250,000, and the figure would have been still greater if the Soviet Command had not extended what help it could to the insurrectionists and the Warsaw civilian population.... [The author doesn't mention that, when the British and U.S. both sent bombers to drop supplies for those in the Jewish Ghetto, and found that they needed to refuel before returning, the Soviets refused to allow the Allies to use airstrips in Soviet occupied land, to do it.] [Nowhere in the discussion is the word "Jew" so much as mentioned. I have not seen any reference to Jews anywhere in the book so far. It is not in the index. But then, neither is concentration camp or holocaust. This, in a book surveying WWII.] [One final note: the next chapter of the book is entitled: Soviet Army Liberates Europe ]