As part of the fight against the terrible anti-Semitic message of Grzegorz Braun, who took on – verbally, but nevertheless – the sacred dogma of the Holocaust1 The Auschwitz Museum conducts an increased run for Facebook and within it drew from the darkness the figure of Lieutenant Napoleon Segieda (ps. “Wera”), emissary2 The Polish government, who spent about 2 weeks in the home close Oświęcim collecting information and rumors about the camp from the surrounding population.
In his entry, the Auschwitz Museum quotes a fragment of his study on the subject:
“In the chambers there are Germans [so in the original] in gas masks and looking at the dying. Service made up of prisoners [i.e. prisoners] drags dead bodies. due to the fact that the crematorium can only burn 2503 people a day, she can't always burn all the dead, although she smokes day and night. With more murdered, they are buried in pits engraved with a suitable machine. Dead bodies are transported in dense goods vehicles, thrown down into the pits, poured in a layer of lime on which the next layer of dead bodies is poured in.”
I gotta say that this entry made me more curious in the character por. Segiedy besides due to the fact that I was rather amazed that I did not know him before – and the subject of Polish emissaries of the Second War I have rather thoroughly studied.
And it is indeed an highly interesting figure, whose peripeties definitely deserve a reminder. He participated in the September run and was in a prisoner of war camp. He escaped from it – as well as many another prisons to which he went through Europe to Britain. erstwhile he arrived there in May 1941 after many peripeties, he was reasonably rapidly appointed as an emissary of People's Stroiting to the country where he was dropped in November of the same 1941. He set off on his way back in August 1942, again after many peripeties – including those caused by personal-political competitions among the various compartments of emigration – reaching Britain in February 1943. He prepared (most likely inactive in Switzerland in late 1942) a detailed report, the passage of which was quoted below.
The interesting thing is that this study is not easy accessible, and as the professional historian, the author of the article on which I base this entry, “only a fewer are known”. This study not only mentions persecution or execution of Jews – Segieda besides writes about how Jews during the business – both German and russian – referred to Poles.
Jewish Affairs
The outbreak of war with Germany caused Jews to believe that under influence
the beginning of large accidents and the fight against the personification of anti-Semitism, which is now Nazi Germany, will be stopped or even stopped by the dangerous process of alienating them from Polish life. However, the consequence of the September run rapidly put an end to all hopes, and Poland's business put them in the hands of their stalkers. The results did not wait long, and the effects are widely known.Among the Polish Jews there is simply a belief that during the first period of the most severe persecution they showed more intellectual resilience than German Jews, parts or Austrians, the most apparent evidence of which was the deficiency of any protest action, in the form of mass suicides, so loud in Vienna and Prague. This phenomenon may be explained in various ways. Jews in Poland did not take specified prominent positions, they were not so powerfully raised with the remainder of the population by linguistic and cultural assimilation, as in Germany[ech] or Austria, or even the Czech Republic.
A large part of Polish Jewry survived persecution during her time
belonging to the erstwhile Russian Empire, so it was hardened in this respect. Secondly, what is most crucial – while the entry of Nazi troops into Austria and the Czech Republic took place in peaceful times and threw the Jews there into the abyss of hopelessness, the entry of these troops into Poland was the first unfavorable phase of the world's war struggles, whose railways, as believed, should proceed to undergo a variety. So it was initially about holding back a period of time, which many seemed to be shortly. But erstwhile the fall of France overturned the predictions, the judaic population was able to tame itself. Finally, unlike Germany and another countries, where the judaic population was few, which increased the sense of loneliness – the immense judaic focus in Poland became a moral and material refuge for them.This comparative assessment, which shows that Polish Jews showed more fortitude than their German, Partial, and Austrian fellow believers, has no absolute value. On the contrary, erstwhile compared to the Polish population, Jews frequently admit that they bear the blows that fall on them not besides timidly and fearfully. This applies first of all to the wealthier burgherhood and judaic intelligence under the exclamation of good surviving conditions, although it must be admitted that the most severe blows fall on both layers.
Polish-Jewish relations. A immense part of Polish Jewry had advanced hopes in russian Russia. russian orientation had many before the war
supporters among the judaic population in Poland, especially among intellectual and labour elements, but the full society became an orientation when, in the face of the defeat of the Polish army, Jews considered russian Russia as their only protection against the Nazi drive.The day of September 17, 1939 was the day of the transition of the full judaic population to the platform of this orientation and the binding of judaic hopes to the origin of the russian army. On that day, the links of Jews to the Polish society, for which the russian invasion became a partition of Poland, were yet broken, while Jews saw the warrant of their salvation. Thus in the last 2 weeks of September 1939, erstwhile russian troops were going to occupy the area between Bug and Wisł[a], in all major cities specified as Lublin, Siedlce, Minsk Mazowiecki and even Prague, they grew up like out of the ground of the post[i] of the russian organization, with the main strands of the action concentrated in the hands of Jews everywhere.
They immediately began to prepare violently to welcome russian troops, they had already separated offices and functions, selected members of the “rewkom”s, generously secreted money and propaganda.
When at the end of 1939 many witnesses returned from the walk of war[es] from various social spheres, these stories about the behaviour of not so many russian troops, but the Jews who utilized Bolsheviks caused in Polish society outrage and hatred of Jewry. It was revealed that the judaic general in all the towns, and in peculiar in Volyn, Polesiu and Podlasie, before the last Polish troops had resigned, had raised red flags and we[that] had built triumphal gates to welcome russian troops, that they had organised “rewkoms” and red militias, that after the Bolsheviks had entered the Polish offices, had organised mass self-righteousness over the officers of the Polish State, the Polish activist[mi], massing them as anti-Semites, [...] and throwing red bows of social scum.
Even more crucial for the behaviour of Jews is the fact that almost everywhere during the extermination of lands, Polish merchants, the wealthier citizens of Poles – the initiators of robberies, arrests, and Jews turned out to be Jews to cover up traces and frequent crimes. At the same time, they did not pay any attention to judaic rich people, who, in consultation with their “rebel” and russian institutions, were able to immediately turn their businesses into cooperatives and, under their cover, destruct the capital in these companies.
In May and June 1940, erstwhile a partial legal return of refugees from the russian territory took place, a fresh wave[a] of news came from Lviv, Lutsk, Pińsk, Białystok and another cities, about how the russian authorities were in three-quarters entrenched by Jews, how Polish schools were converted under judaic control into judaic fashion, how russian authorities, following the instructions of secret police entrenched by Jews, carried into Russia respective twelve 1000 of Polish intelligence, how Jews who fought over Poles revenge on them for all harsher Nazi order against Jews, and on myths they falsely accused Polish groups of interacting with Germany and helping in persecution of Jews. Only due to the cooperation of Jews in the N.K.W.D. could there be no wider independency action in the russian occupation, and in peculiar the secret press could not appear.
The behaviour of Jews on the eve of the German-Soviet war and in its first period was no little characteristic. Then the Jews just got over the rage. They suspended all transactions; the gold went up overnight; the goods were hidden and rather long denied their sale even in tiny quantities and at the highest prices. Only after a fewer weeks, under the influence of messages unfavorable to the Soviets from the battlefield and a crucial deviation of the front line from the Gen[ernal] Gub[ernatorship] run slow stopped. A akin phenomenon can only be justified by the deep conviction of the judaic masses that groundbreaking accidents are coming that will bring an end to the German power.
These economical accidents have caused Polish society
Unrepentant harm due to the fact that it was caused by harmful speculation into the abyss of misery.These facts and so on led to the fact that the attitude of Polish society towards Jews became more unfriendly than before the war, with the anticipation that intelligence and even lower layers give expression of sympathy to the victims of Nazi rape and poorness among Jews.
The attitude of Jews to Poles is very unkind. Indecently generalizing, they accuse Poles, especially Polish intelligent spheres, of causing these or another Nazi harassments [for] throwing efforts at them to tighten up the ghetto, emphasizing the inhumanity of [state] police officers, an unfriendly attitude towards Jews tormented by [N] the Jews.
While they besides express eagerly any evidence of compassion and kindness, to which Jews are peculiarly sensitive, negative judgement prevails decisively. It is frequently heard in the judaic territory that “in no case can we anticipate anything good here in Poland”.
Cultural judaic spheres, connected to Polish society so far, do not go that far. But even those who have Poles among their friends and friends usually express akin views (IPMS, MSW A.9.III.2a/3, Report: 86).
Isn't that interesting? This is simply a completely different image than the 1 we know not only from school past but besides from most literature devoted to occupation. In this “standard” image, Jews are passive, poor, oppressed, persecuted and murdered by Germans. They receive aid from Poles, whom they are grateful for, and which is coordinated by a functioning underground state, or conspiracy structures, especially the National Army. But as it turns out, it wasn't that simple. Moreover, the Jews did not feel any loyalty to Poland or any gratitude to Poles (except, of course, individual cases in direct relations that we know about). On the contrary, as always, they were ready to usage the stronger 1 and to make a "gesheft" on it – that is the character. After reading the above, it is little amazing that the Jews behaved today, due to the fact that present the Jews felt strong, stronger than others (no wonder, since the U.S. was acting on their request). What it translates into we see in Gaza.
But why was Napoleon Segieda forgotten?
Of course, his life course played a role. In 1943-45 he worked at the Ministry of abroad Affairs in the Polish government on emigration. Then he remained in Britain, did not quit his memories, nor did he quit as an activist in emigration organizations, formed a household he did not tell about his experiences during the war. And his study went to the archive, where Krzysztof A. Tochman had only late recovered it.
Perhaps, however, a function in forgetting this and another reports describing Polish-Jewish relations was played by another origin that Mr.Tochman mentions in his precious article:
Today from the investigation of Polish historians and the accounts of witnesses of those events you
nik that Polish representations in Switzerland were infiltrated
through various interviews and centers, and above all: German, Soviet
and judaic Zionist organizations.
I would add that, as we besides know, akin infiltration took place in the case of structures of the Polish government in exile, although with different accents. Already in the Polish People's Republic, the “infiltration” by judaic environments was systemic, which was a logical continuation of the state of affairs, which describes Segieda in his report.
Source: “Forgotten courier to the Government Delegation. Lieutenant Napoleon Segieda “Wera” (1908–1991)", Krzysztof A. Tochman, 2021. DOI: 10.15584/johass.2021.3.4 (local copy)
- It's essential of the capital, due to the fact that as we know, the death of a goy is biology, but the death of a hebrew is of advanced metaphysical significance. ↩︎
- In the entry they call him a "curier" which is an interesting example of historical ignorance. The courier is simply a individual who carries materials that he does not know and does not request to know – in the case of secret organizations they are evidently hidden in any way, during the Second War, most frequently as microfilms hidden in any everyday object located in the courier's luggage, e.g. a hair brush. The emissary – an emissary – is, on the another hand, a individual who gets to know any issues and then presents them after reaching “the another side”. In the case of an emissary, therefore, the most crucial thing is what he carries in his head. The emissaries of the Polish government for refugees to the delegate of the government to the country were most frequently politically active in 1 of the parties.
He wonders why the Auschwitz Museum worker – most likely a professional historian – incorrectly writes about Segied as “the courier”. Does he not know or realize the difference between these terms? ↩︎ - Apart from the question of the reliability of this information – Segieda only reported what he heard from others, he did not see it himself – taking 250 people / day, so – working non-stop – 91,000 per year, i.e. about 273,000 for 3 years. ↩︎
