US American Soldiers travel to Poland for pilgrimage to Jasna Gora

US American Soldiers travel to Poland for pilgrimage to Jasna Gora







Illinois Soldiers travel to Poland for pilgrimage
By Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McCurry
Illinois National Guard




Eight Illinois National Guard troops lead the group of about 300 into Czestochowa during the Polish pilgrimage. The Illinois guardsmen walked along with Polish and German Soldiers for the annual pilgrimage from Warsaw to Czestochowa in August. (Photo courtesy of Illinois National Guard)
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., (8/31/09) -- Imagine walking from Peoria to Aurora. In August, eight Illinois National Guard members did just that, except in a foreign country, Poland.

Six Soldiers and two Airmen walked 137 miles, beginning in Warsaw and ending in Czestochowa, in 10 days for the annual Polish pilgrimage. They walked with a group of about 300 people that included Polish, German and Slovakian Soldiers.

Every year, thousands of Catholics from around the world go to Poland to participate in the ceremonial walk to Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, the site of the revered Black Madonna icon.

Their journey began with an early morning mass at the field cathedral of the Polish Army. Every day, the group attended Mass regardless of their various faiths and beliefs.

During the 12-hour walk each day, they were treated with prayers, songs and sermons in German, Polish, Italian and English broadcasted through large speakers carried by participants.

Local residents provided pilgrimage participants with food, refreshments and encouragement along the route. Every night, the Illinois Guardsmen slept in tents provided by the Polish Armed Forces.

“I was told numerous times by Polish Soldiers that they got a kick out of the fact that the German Soldiers and American Soldiers were communicating to each other through their Polish translators,” said Sgt. David Sworobowicz.

Local farmers stood along the route and handed out their fruit and vegetables to everyone walking in the pilgrimage. The cities also worked together to offer soups and bread for lunch everyday. The other breaks they had throughout the day were at numerous churches.

“The civilians’ generosity along the way is unmatched,” said 2nd Lt. Veronica Kool, of Springfield, Illinois Army National Guard. “All along the route, the Polish stood waiting outside their homes offering whatever food they had to give.”

“The religious experience gained from this exercise is above and beyond rewarding,” said Sworobowicz. “I can only hope to do it again sometime.”

The trip ended at Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa with the military pilgrimage walking the last half mile or so through thousands of supportive spectators that waved, shook their hands, gave hugs and took pictures of the group.

“It is not every day that you get to travel overseas for a friendly noncombative operation,” said 1st Lt. Jeremy Dugena. “From the arrival in Poland, the Polish Army were incredible hosts making sure we had everything we needed.”

Illinois Guardsmen participated in the pilgrimage to commemorate the 1655 Polish victory over Sweden and to build a stronger relationship with the Polish.

The National Guard sponsored State Partnership Program (SPP) between the Illinois National Guard and Republic of Poland was established in 1993.

The SPP links National Guard states and territories with their partner countries to foster mutual interests and establishing long-term relationships across all levels of society.
Through the SPP, Illinois Army and Air National Guard service members have participated in annual, joint training exchanges with military forces of the republic of Poland.

“Their professionalism and maturity are what I desire in every group of Guardsmen who come to Poland,” said Maj. James Fisher, the bilateral affairs officer for the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. “They promoted the State Partnership Program with flying colors and are model diplomats of our country.”
POLAND AGAIN REFUSED
VISA WAIVER STATUS


Washington, D.C. (PMN)—The following letter was sent on October 17, 2008, by Frank Spula, President of the Polish American Congress (PAC), to Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama:



"As you may know, today a ceremony took place in the White House Rose Garden, during which President Bush announced that seven countries - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and South Korea – met the requirements to join the Visa Waiver Program.



"Poland was not included as one of the favored nations.



"I am certain that you are well aware of the great significance the inclusion of Poland in the Visa Waiver Program would have to one of this country’s most steadfast allies.



"However, Poland is still yet to be included as, according to the most recent statistics, the refusal rate in Poland is three points too high.



"There is no need to reiterate all of the facts that show how Poland has been for years one of the most reliable and consistent allies of the United States in many arenas, as well as the fact that Poland not only does not pose any kind of terrorist threat, but has done a lot to combat this international menace. I am certain that you already know all of those arguments.



"However, I would like to emphasize another, perhaps less known aspect of the situation, namely the great loss of good will today’s continued exclusion means to many people of Poland towards the United States of America.



"I have been repeatedly hearing how feelings of excitement and support towards our great country have been over the course of the last two years turning into those of disappointment and bitterness.



"Furthermore, and more worrisome, I have been hearing that many members of the 10 million strong Polish American Community (Polonia) are starting to hold similar feelings.



"In these turbulent times, the United States has to cultivate and cherish its relationships with most faithful allies. Poland is definitely among those nations. It is time, in fact it is now much past due, to show Poland that its support and contributions are valued by the United States, and not with sweet words, but with concrete actions.



"As the President of the Polish American Congress, one of the oldest-and the largest-Polish ethnic organization in the United States, I urge you, either as the next president of our great nation or on the Senate floor, to do what the previous administration has been promising Poland and Polonia for years but have never delivered – make sure that Poland joins the privileged ranks of the visa free travel as soon as possible."



A similar letter was sent to President George W. Bush, who has been promising the visa waiver for Polish citizens for years, but, despite praising Poland as an ally, has not delivered on the promise.



Obama has said that he would invite Poland to join the Visa Waiver Program. A campaign release stated, "Today’s visa regime with Poland reflects neither the current strategic relationship nor the close historic bond between our peoples … In particular, this means expanding the program to countries, like Poland, that have demonstrated a capacity and willingness to cooperate with the U.S. in achieving counterterrorism goals."



McCain has been silent on the subject during his campaign for the presidency and reportedly agrees with the current Bush policy on visa waivers.




Hundreds of US soldiers join Polish pilgrimage
By VANESSA GERA – 17 hours ago

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of soldiers in camouflage set off Tuesday on a 10-day march to Poland's holiest Roman Catholic shrine — among them five Americans hoping to deepen ties with an ally.

Five members of the Illinois National Guard traveled to Poland to make the 180-mile (290-kilometer) trek on foot — alongside Poles, Germans and other Europeans — from Warsaw to Czestochowa, site of the revered Black Madonna icon.

Though the 300-year-old pilgrimage has deep religious and patriotic resonance in mainly Catholic Poland, the main purpose of the U.S. contingent, a tradition that has started in recent years, is to show solidarity with Poland — an ally in Iraq and Afghanistan — and other nations.

It's a chance "to come together and share a little bit, and hopefully develop closer bonds with foreign militaries in a non-combat type setting," said Master Sgt. Roman Waldron, 37, from Springfield, Illinois.

Before embarking on the pilgrimage, the pilgrims attended an early morning Mass at the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army, where a priest blessed them with holy water. They were also told to set a moral example and refrain from drinking or smoking during the march.

The Black Madonna — which legend says was painted by St. Luke — was brought to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa in 1384.

Many miracles have been attributed to the painting, including a 1655 siege during which 70 monks and 180 supporters held off nearly 4,000 soldiers from the Protestant Swedish army and inspired Poles to rise up and throw out the invaders.

Sgt. 1st Class Evan Young, from Rock Island, Illinois, believes the pilgrimage is going to be even more meaningful than he had first imagined.

"Originally when I was given the opportunity I thought it would be kind of a neat way to see Poland, but then I started doing research on the Black Madonna and the siege and I thought it's part of a much bigger thing," said Young, a 45-year-old who grew up Episcopalian.

"It's pretty neat to be taking part in this, and help improve relations with Poland and other countries that are here," he said.

Only one of the five American soldiers is a Catholic. They will sleep in eight-man tents set up along the route by the Polish army.

The soldiers were trailed by thousands of students and other pilgrims in Warsaw, and will eventually join up with thousands more expected to converge on Czestochowa next week, ahead of the August 15 Catholic holy day marking the Assumption of Mary.

Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz walked briefly with the group Tuesday.

"This builds brotherhood among soldiers from different countries," he said.

Zakazane Piosenki 2 tak odbydujemy Polske od gor do morza i Polskie Stocznie

Zakazane Piosenki 2 tak odbydujemy Polske od gor do morza i Polskie Stocznie





Gdzie są kwiaty z tamtych lat?

US$ 65 billion claim against Poland. from the radical so called Israeli

Singer stated on April 19, 1996 that if Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims, it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated".
What? By sending Jerry Seinfeld out on tour to tell Polish jokes?

I think Poland can survive this Zionist onslaught.

ON February 27, 2007, twenty leaders of Jewish restitution groups will convene in Warsaw, to advance their US$ 65 billion claim against Poland. Israel Singer, the general secretary of the World Jewish Congress, will be there. Jerzy Robert Nowak, a Polish professor of history, writes today in one of the independent papers that Singer's participation is an "extraordinary scandal" absent from most of the mediaSinger stated on April 19, 1996 that if Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims, it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated". A Polish publicist, Stanislaw Michalkiewicz has called Singer's declaration a "declaration of war against Poland



I only hope Poland has the balls to throw the extortionists out.

Golda Meir told Poland: Don't send sick or disabled Jews to Israel

Golda Meir told Poland: Don't send sick or disabled Jews to Israel

Former Prime Minister Golda Meir.

Golda Meir told Poland: Don't send sick or disabled Jews to Israel



By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent


Polacy powinni aliantom "fakturę" wystawić za całą II wojnę (zdrada w 1939, walki na obu frontach, Powstanie Warszawskie, okupacja sowiecka) nikogo tak jak Polaków nie zrobiono na szaro a teraz jeszcze o odszkodowania się upominają
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In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed.

"A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want to institute selection in aliyah, because we cannot continue accepting sick and handicapped people. Please give your opinion as to whether this can be explained to the Poles without hurting immigration," read the document, written by Meir to Israel's ambassador to Poland, Katriel Katz.

The letter, marked "top secret" and written in April 1958, shortly after Meir became foreign minister, was uncovered by Prof. Szymon Rudnicki, a Polish historian at the University of Warsaw.

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In recent years, Rudnicki has been researching documents shedding light on Israeli-Polish relations between 1945 and 1967.

The document had not been known to exist before this time, and scholars of the mass immigration from Poland to Israel that took place from 1956 to 1958 were unaware of Israel's intent to impose a selection process on Jews leaving Poland - survivors of the Holocaust and its death camps.

The "coordination committee" Meir refers to was a joint panel consisting of representatives of the government and the Jewish Agency.

Rudnicki's study, undertaken together with Israeli scholars headed by Prof. Marcos Silber of the University of Haifa, has already been published in a book in Polish.

The Hebrew version of the book will be published in a few months. However, the document containing the suggestion about the selection process does not appear in the book because it did not impact relations between the two countries.

"Although there are numerous documents on the issue of immigration, we did not find in the archives of Israel or Poland - where they also opened the party archive for us - any response to this request by Golda to the ambassador in Poland," Rudnicki told Haaretz. "In this respect, the document remains an internal matter of Israel," he said.

However, Rudnicki concedes that the content of the document surprised him as a scholar and a Jew.

"This is a very cynical document," he said. "It is known that Golda was a brutal politician who defended interests more than people."

Katz died more than 20 years ago, and no proof has been found that anything was done regarding the foreign minister's query.

The 1956-1958 wave of immigration from Poland, also known as the "Gomulka Aliyah" was the second wave of immigration from Poland after World War II. In those years, due to a major lifting of restrictions on Jews leaving the country, some 40,000 Polish Jews came to Israel.

In the first wave, in 1950, Poland prevented anyone who had professions essential to Polish economy and society from leaving, including Jewish doctors and engineers. With the rise to power of president Wadyslaw Gomulka and his initiation of reforms at the beginning of what became known as the "Golmuka thaw," the Polish government allowed people with professions more in demand to leave the country, including Jews who had taken up senior positions in the Communist Party.

"Until 1950, there was indeed selection by the Poles on the basis of professions in demand," Rudnicki said. "After 1956 the Poles imposed no limitations, and certainly did not intentionally send handicapped and aged people to Israel. That is an Israeli story, not a Polish one," the historian said.

During the years to which the document refers, waves of immigration were also underway from other countries, placing a heavy burden on the young state.

Statistics show that the rate of immigration at that time was similar to that at the height of immigration from the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 1999.



Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski

The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War was commemorated in Gda 4;sk, where German battleship Schlezwig-Holstein on a “goodwill visit” on September 1, 1939 at 4.45 a.m. fired the first shots of the war with its 16 inch guns aiming at Polish military base on the peninsula of Westerplatte in the free city of Gdansk. On September 1, 2009 European heads of governments gathered on Westerplatte, to commemorate and honor the anniversary of WWII.




Poland

The defensive doctrine of Poland, was applied in earnest starting on January 26, 1939 when German minister von Ribbentrop was told in Warsaw that Poland will not join the pact against Russia. Poles followed the advice of Marshal Józef Pi 2;sudski, who wrote in his last will and testament, that in order to preserve not only the independence of Poland, but in fact Poland’s very existence, the government of Poland had “to veer between Germany and Russia as long as possible and then bring the rest of the world into the conflict, rather than subordinating Poland to either one of its two neighbors.” The choice of the verb “to veer” indicated that Pi 2;sudski was fully aware of the reality, that Poland formed a barrier between two main protagonists and most powerful contenders on the European continent: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Stalin fearful of a two front war by Germany and Japan against the USSR decided to stop the Japanese Kwantung Army by Soviet attack in August 1939, a few days before the Ribbentrop-Mo 2;otow Pact was to be signed in Moscow. According to The Oxford Companion to World War II (Oxford University Press, 1995) Soviet general Grigory Zhukov was the first in history to use the blitz-krieg tactics. These tactics were developed jointly by Germans and Russians on Soviet polygons after the Treaty of Rapallo of April 16, 1922.

From May 28, 1938 on, the largest air battles in history up to that time, were fought in Asia and involved 140 to 200 Soviet and Japanese aircraft (A. Stella, Khalkhin-Gol, "The Forgotten War", Journal of Contemporary History, 1, 8, 1983). Heavy Japanese loses and betrayal by Germany, were to bring an end to Japanese-Soviet war. Zhukov organized a surprise offensive using 35 infantry battalions, 20 cavalry squadrons, 500 aircraft and 500 of the new and powerful tanks. This force locally outnumbered the forces of the advancing Kwantung Army.

On August 20, 1939 Zhukov launched a surprise attack and in ten days inflicted massive casualties on the Japanese. "Zhukov's essential achievement lay in combining tanks, artillery, aircraft and men in an integrated offensive for the first time in modern war. By 31 August, the Russians have completed what they described as the most impeccable encirclement of the enemy army since Hannibal beat the Romans at Cannae. The 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army was virtually wiped out, and at least 18,000 Japanese were killed." (P. Snow "Nomonhan -the Unknown Victory", History Today, July 1990.)

Poles, threatened by Hitler with complete eradication of the Polish state in the historic Polish lands, knew that Stalin threatened Poland with terror and enslavement. However, Nazi Germany then was the worse of the two evils. Poles made a rational decision and refused to help Germany to defeat Russia. Poland’s refusal to attack Russia saved the Soviet Union from destruction. The Russians so far do not want to admit this fact and they revive the cult of Stalin.

During the 1930ties the League of Nations was trying to prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Then, on August 11, 1939, Hitler finally said to Jacob Burkhardt, Commissioner of the League of Nations: "Everything I undertake is directed against Russia; if the West is too stupid and blind to grasp this, I shall be compelled to come to an agreement with the Russians, beat the West and then, after their defeat, turn against the Soviet Union with all my forces. I need the Ukraine so that they can not starve me out as happened in the last war." (Roy Dennan "Missed Chances," Indigo, London 1997, p. 65). Hitler talked about Russia being “German Africa” and Russians as “negros” to be used by the superior German race.

Hitler’s plan to create “Greater Germany” populated by “racial Germans from the River Rhine to the Dnepr River in the Ukraine,” was known to marshal Pi 2;sudski, who understood that Hitler planned eventual eviction and mass murder of Poles and Ukrainians in their historical lands. Earlier, on March 3, 1918, in Brest Litovsk, a town occupied by Germans, Lenin’s government signed a humiliating capitulation, which yielded to German dictate and agreed to make Russia a vassal state of Germany. Berlin planned to treat Russia like Britain treated India and make a colonial empire ruled by Germany from the Rhine River to Vladivostok. In 1939 the territory of Poland blocked Germany from the direct access to the Ukraine and to Russia.

Already on August 5, 1935 Hitler started pressing the government of Poland to sign a pact with Germany against Russia. This is described in detail, by Józef Lipski, the ambassador of Poland to Germany, during the years 1933-39. Stalin’s government was aware of Hitler’s plans and of the pact between Germany and Japan against Russia signed in 1936. Stalin feared a two front war, Japanese attack from the east and German attack from the west. When Poland refused to join Germany on January 26, 1939 Stalin thought that he had a chance to entangle Germany in a long lasting war on the western front, as had happened during WWI.

For all practical purposes Stalin offered to divide Poland between Germany and Russia by inviting the German-Soviet cooperation on March 10, 1939 in a speech broadcast by radio and addressed to the 18th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow. Eventually the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was signed in Moscow and dated August 23, 1939. The news of German-Soviet pact and German betrayal, came to Japanese in the middle of a military disaster, which lead to a cease fire and an the end of hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union on September 16, 1939 after Japan lodged a formal protest in Berlin against the “Ribbentrop – Molotov Pact."
Thus, Poland’s decision to defend itself ruined Hitler’s "best case scenario" and his plans to defeat Stalin in a two-front war against Russia. Instead Stalin managed to entangle the Germans in a two-front war. The "great game" consisted of competition between Hitler and Stalin who defeats whom in a two-front war by means of attacks from the east and from the west.

Hitler furious with the Poles for ruining his best-case scenario, ordered his generals on August 22, 1939 to use utmost ferocity against all ethnic Poles and as an act of vengeance to complete carefully planed destruction of Warsaw. The site of the Polish capital was to become a German provincial administrative town.

In 1939 Friedrich Pabst was nominated by Hitler as the chief architect of the New Warsaw for which he produced on February 6, 1940 a complete plan, drawn up with help of the nazi architects Hubert Gross and Otto Nurnberger. Detailed plans were made to destroy systematically all the buildings of Warsaw including all archives, museums, and monuments, while the armament industry and railroad facilities were to be enlarged. Detailed plans were made including the replacement of the Royal Castle with a Parteivolkshalle and the Column of King Sigismund with a huge statue called Niederwald Germania or Nieredwalddenkmal. Pi 2;sudski square was renamed Adolf Hitler Platz.
Hitler decided to dynamite the Royal Castle of Warsaw in November 1939, a plan executed on September 28, 1944 within sight of the Red Army. It was on the eastern shores of the Vistula River, after Stalin issued orders to stop the front and to let the Nazis quell the Warsaw Uprising. Hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians were killed in Warsaw, including some 16000 members of the Polish Home Army.

Thus, Poland was caught in the middle of the struggle of much more powerful countries, both governed by totalitarian regimes. The Nazi government considered itself to be the “natural heir” of the British Empire. This helped the Poles to sign the Polish-British Common Defense Pact against German aggression on August 25, 1939. The signing of the Polish-British Pact occurred after Poland, on July 25, 1939. gave to Britain and France each, a copy of a the linguistic deciphering electro-mechanical device named Enigma for the German secret military code system. American code expert David A. Hatch of the Center of Criptic History, NSA, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, wrote that “the breaking of the Enigma by Poland was one of the cornerstones of Allied victory over Germany.”

Poland’s resolve to defend itself was remarkable against the backdrop of pacifist Western Europe, the Anschluss of Austria and the annexation of Sudettenland as well as the imposition of German protectorate on Czechia and Moravia. Poland derailed Hitler’s strategy by refusing to help him to attack Russia with a combined total of about 600 divisions. A force twice as large as was the Soviet army in 1939. Hitler’s ambition together with Poland’s refusal put him in the position of betraying Japan and thereby to be deprived of some 200 Japanese divisions after he lost 50 or more Polish divisions. As a result Germany faced shortage of one million soldiers on the Eastern Front each year.

The Soviet-Japanese war ended with the cease-fire signed on September 15, 1939, it was put in force the next day, on Sept. 16th and on September 17th 1939, the Red Army, freed of the hostilities against Japan, joined the Germans in the invasion of Poland, which was in progress since September 1, 1939. German records show that the German Army used twice more ammunition in Poland in September 1939, than was used by Germans against the French and the British in 1940.

In 1939 during the battle of Poland, the Poles destroyed one third of German armor used against Poland and one fourth of German airplanes. During the war heroic deeds were performed by Polish pilots, who later were among the 17,000 Polish in the Polish Air Force in England and had decisive role in defeating the German Air Force in the Battle of Britain. Polish sailors, helped to spot and sink the battleship Bismarck, among others feats. Polish Second Corp won the battle of Monte Cassino and opened for the road to Rome for the Allies.

In August 1944 the Polish First Armored Division played a decisive role in the battle for France where it defeated the Hermann Goering Pantzer Division in a decisive battle of Fallaise in Normandy. On the Western Front Polish armed forces constituted the third largest allied force after the USA and Gr. Britain.

Russia was most likely saved from defeat by Poland’s refusal to join Nazi Germany in the attack the on Soviet Union in 1939. When Hitler had joined the Soviets to defeat Poland, Hitler betrayed the treaty he had with Japan. The Japanese signed the ceasefire with Russia and stopped hostilities against the Siberian Army, the same army that took part in the battle of Moscow and caused sudden worsening of the situation of the German Army on the eastern front.

"On 1 December, [1941] Army Group Center made a last all-out attack to take Moscow, but the balance of forces favored the defender. ... At down of 3 December, Zhukov's Siberian divisions [100,000 men with 300 tanks and 2000 artillery pieces] crushed through the extended flanks of the [German] Army Group Center." (Stephen Badsey, "World War II Battle Plans" 2000, p. 98).

The German General Staff estimated that if the Germans had some 45-50 divisions more, they would not have lost the battle of Moscow. Ironically this is the number of divisions with which Poland defended itself in 1939. As mentioned before Poland saved Russia by refusing to join in the German attack on the Soviet Union - a fact, which the Russians hate to admit. On the other hand, when the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalists, including Stepan Bandera, who were willing to fight on the side of Nazi Germany, proclaimed the independence of Ukraine in Lvov (Lwów, Lviv) in 1941, they were arrested and imprisoned in the bunker of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin.

In 1940, when Hitler was victorious in France, he was in euphoria and he ordered Adolf Eichmann to prepare a “four year plan” to evacuate all European Jews under German occupation and deport them, using French and British navy, to a super ghetto, to be supervised by Hermann Goering, on the island of Madagascar (this plan is available on the Internet). It is possible that after Hitler lost the crucial battle of Moscow and realized that Germany may lose the war. He decided then to commit the genocide of the Jews, as a preventive measure, so that the Jews would not benefit and exploit defeated Germany. Similar Nazi logic was used in 1945, during the mass murder of prisoners evacuated from concentration camps.

During the Summer of 1941 Abraham Stern, the leader of Irgun Zwei Leumi, to which Yitzak Shamir (Yezernitzky) belonged, sent a message to Beirut to contact the German Nazis gevernment and offer them the following proposal: “The establishment of the historical Jewish state, on the nationalist and totalitarian basis, tied by treaty to the German Reich, in accordance with the preservation and strengthening of future German power position in the Near East.” In the fall of 1941 Stern was determined to renew his connections with the Nazis and made a second attempt to contact them in December 1941. It was shortly before Stern was murdered by the British in Tel Aviv in February 1942. His second attempt to make contact with the Nazis failed. Yitzak Shamir was then a member of the command of Stern’s group and chose as his assistant Ghiladi. Later Shamir decided that Ghiladi had to be killed. (Avishai Margalit, “Yitzak Shamir - His Violent Career” The New York Review of Books, May 14, 1992, p.21)[Ghiladi who was an assistant to the future prime minister Yitzak Shamir may or may not be the same Naeim Giladi, author of “Ben-Gurion’s Scandals: How The Haganah and The Mossad Eliminated Jews.” www.dandelionbooks.net Tempe, Arrizona ISBN 1-893302-40-7 (LCCP No 2003100608).]
Hitler took his own life on April 30, 1945, when the news came that the powerful German army group “Mitte,” under the command of field marshal Ferdinand Schoerner (1882-1973) was destroyed south of Berlin. Earlier on April 4, 1945 Hitler promoted Schoerner to Field Marshal and nominated him as the new Commander-in-Chief of the German Army (Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres). Hitler ordered Schoerner to establish in Bavaria in the Alps a fortress in Dbersdorf on the summit of Obersaltzberg mountaun. Schoerner was favorite of Goebbels, who praised him highly in his diary entries from March and April 1945.

The Marshal Schroener’s force, the German army group “Mitte,” had been defeated by the 2nd Polish Army in a battle near Bautzen (Budziszyn) on April 21-27. It was the bloodiest battle fought by Poles in World War II. 26,000 German soldiers of the Berlin rescue force were killed there and 314 of their best tanks and 135 self-propelled guns were lost. 27,000 Germans were taken prisoner, most of them wounded in combat. The Soviets excluded the battle of Bautzen from Polish textbooks, in order not to give Polish soldiers credit for their victory.

The First Polish Army organized by the Soviets was the only non-Soviet force to capture Berlin, after it broke through the fortifications of “Die Pommernstellung” or “Wa 2; Pomorski.” Second Polish Army fought the battle of Bautzen against the Berlin Army “Mitte” which included the rebuilt Hermann Goering Pantzer Division, the GrossDeutchlandCorps and other famous German formations. Both Polish Armies had traditional Polish uniforms, except for the fact that Polish white eagle on their banners and caps did not have the traditional royal crown.

Despite horrible losses inflicted on Poland and the tragic loss of over six million people or 20% of the population, Poland survived the war, the betrayal by Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran in 1943 and in Yalta and Potsdam in 1945 and the years of post-war terror of Jakub Berman and other communist collaborators.

Poles remember that during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1920, Lenin attempted to overrun Poland and form a Moscow-Berlin axis, in order to start a world wide communist revolution. In preparation for the arrival of the Bolshevik Army in Germany local communists took over the government of the state of Bavaria and the city government of Berlin in 1919. General Mikhail Tukhachevsky gave the historic order to the Red Army on July 4, 1920: “To the west, over the corpse of ‘White Poland,’ on the road to the worldwide conflagration.” (Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian. “Poland an Illustrated History,” New York: Hippocrene Books Inc., 2000. Page 17.)

The realistic defensive doctrine of Józef Pi 2;sudski helped to save the Polish nation, the only one in Europe to fight Hitler and Stalin, against all odds and at a critical junction of history Poland defended itself against Hitler’s Germany. Poland formed an underground state under German occupation and had government in exile during the war. Now Poland is a free country and has the same borders, which it had already one thousand years ago. Among Poland’s 38 million people, there is the smallest number of ethnic minorities among European countries. Hopefully Poland will have a chance to live in peace as a member of NATO and of the European Union. This outcome is very different from what Hitler planned for Poland.

Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski

WWW.pogonowski.com




Panie Leszku

Poczyta 2;em trochę w internecie o Prof. Pogonowskim i chcia 2;bym nawiązać z

Nim kontakt mailowy.Czy móg 2;by Pan mnie zarekomendować jako jednego z

nielicznych polskich Żydów, który jest na tyle rozgarnięty, że wie kto wróg,

a kto przyjaciel i dla którego Polska to najwyższe dobro, Ojczyzna, której

tak jak moi przodkowie nigdy się nie wyrzeknę.

Pozdrawiam i życzę dobrego dnia czyli po hebrajsku JOM TOW, Jerzy Bander

Katyn Your Freedom and Ours .... occupied and the truth about what happened to the officers Katyn is being suppressed

Katyn Your Freedom and Ours .... occupied and the truth about what happened to the officers Katyn is being suppressed



"The Communist Movement and ideology played an important part In Jewish life, particularly in the 1920s, 1930s and during and after World War II
Jews became the leading element in the legal and illegal Communist Parties..
Jews were instructed to change their names so as "not confirm right-wing propaganda that presented Communism as an alien, Jewish conspiracy"

-Front cover Volume 5, 1971 Encyclopedia Judaica, published Jerusalem, Israel
Under the entry for "Communism":Vol. 5, page 792


by Henry Makow Ph.D.

"Defiance", yet another movie about Jewish victimhood and heroism opened in 1800 US theaters last week.

This story of Jewish partisans fighting Nazis adds to a growing Holocaust film genre that includes Sophie's Choice, Shindler's List and The Pianist.

But one incredible Jewish story of genocide continues to elude Hollywood. This is the execution of 20,000 Polish Officer POW's, (devout Roman Catholics who represented much of the Polish elite,) by the Bolshevik Jewish-led NKVD in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Why has Hollywood ignored this story? My opinion is that, with six degrees of separation, Hollywood, (and indeed America) is ultimately run by the spiritual descendants of these murderers.

Thus we are brainwashed to ignore genocides that don't fit the Nazi-Jew paradigm. Movies are essential to this programming. Part of an ongoing psychological war on the Christian European majority, we are made to identify with minorities. If we object, we are counted as Nazis. I will expand later when I briefly review Hollywood's current fare.

Andrej Wajda, 82, Poland's most celebrated film director, lost his father at Katyn. In 2008, Wajda made a movie about this genocide and its effect on the victims' families. Financed by Polish TV, the film, "Katyn," was a major artistic and commercial success in Poland. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2008, but still has not found wide distribution outside Poland.

It didn't win the Oscar. The award went to a Jewish Holocaust movie, "The Counterfeiters," a "true story" from Germany. It described the moral dilemma faced by a Jewish master-counterfeiter forced to forge British and US currency. ("Should I sabotage this process?") I saw this movie. It is an enjoyable piece of propaganda which helps the audience identify with Jews. In real life, I doubt if the hero had any such moral qualms. Even in the film, he filled his own pockets.

KATYN

Here is the trailer for "Katyn". I haven't seen the movie but I did stumble across information that illustrates why this is the stuff of which epics are made.

First, some background from Wikipedia: "Since Poland's conscription system required every nonexempt university graduate to become a reserve officer, the Soviets were able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia. Those who died at Katyn included an admiral, two generals, 24 colonels, 79 lieutenant colonels, 258 majors, 654 captains, 17 naval captains, 3,420 NCOs, seven chaplains, three landowners, a prince, 43 officials, 85 privates, and 131 refugees. Also among the dead were 20 university professors; 300 physicians; several hundred lawyers, engineers, and teachers; and more than 100 writers and journalists as well as about 200 pilots. In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps."

In 1945, Maurice Shainberg was the Assistant to KGB Col. Grigory Zaitzev who was the Commandant of the main Katyn work camp. In his book, "Breaking from the KGB," (1986) Shainberg, a Polish Jew, tells how he discovered Zaitzev's Katyn diary in the safe. Shainberg had misgivings about Communism and identified with his fellow Poles. He took great personal risks to copy sections of the diary. The Zaitzev Diary was dynamite because the Soviets always claimed the Nazis had committed the war crime.

The diary appears authentic except for one major discrepancy. Zaitzev pretends the slaughter was necessitated by lack of transport to remove the prisoners in advance of the Nazi onslaught in June 1941. In fact, Stalin and Beria gave the order to murder the Poles in early March and the executions took place in April and May 1940. Only 4250 were actually shot in Katyn forest. The remainder were executed in prisons elsewhere. Many were taken out in barges on the White Sea and drowned.

Otherwise, the diary describes how the Soviets tried to indoctrinate and intimidate the Poles into betraying their culture and their country (as the Western-elite has done today), by forming a puppet class in a future Soviet-dominated Poland. The Poles refused and that is the reason they were slaughtered.

THE ZAITZEV DIARY

When Zaitzev got his assignment, he was warned that the Poles were all "educated religious fanatics" always singing patriotic songs and hymns with their chaplain. Zaitzev was confident he could teach them to "pray to a new God."

The prisoners worked cutting trees from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. In the evening they boycotted the indoctrination sessions. They had no desire to assist in building the future Soviet Poland.

One officer explained: "As a Pole I know my nation. None of us have the desire to dictate to other people, and we don't want other people to dictate to us. We are neither a Fascist or a Communist nation, but a devoutly Catholic one."

Once during a speech, the Polish Army Chaplain Jozwiak lifted up the crucifix he wore and began to chant a prayer. The prisoners followed suit. That night, Jozwiak was taken to the Interrogation Chamber.

"The use of electrical currents on Father Jozwiak's eyes and body didn't help. Nor was the Chinese method successful, where the prisoner was stripped from the waist down and forced to sit over an open cage of starving rats. We couldn't allow the priest to go back to the other prisoners in the condition he was left in, so we finished him off." (Shainberg, p. 165)

The NKVD thought the priest's example would have a sobering effect on the POW's but instead they curtailed their work. The NKVD retaliated by decreasing rations which made the prisoners too weak to work. When the NKVD started shooting prisoners who didn't work; the others turned on the guards with their axes and 192 Poles were shot.

Now the Poles were more defiant than ever. When a collaborator lectured to them, they began to chant a prayer: "We Polish soldiers and prisoners of the Soviets have been brought here to foreign lands to die. We beg of you, Mother of God, to take care of our nation...Save us from German and Soviet imprisonment. We are offering ourselves as a sacrifice for the independence of our fatherland..."

Of course this is the kind of self sacrifice and patriotism that our Masters don't want us to see.

"Our task was impossible," Zaitzev wrote. "People who have never met these Poles will not understand how difficult it was to change their attitude toward us. No beating or abuse would make them stop their singing. They are a hard and proud people. Every day they get physically weaker but their anger and hatred increased."

Polish historian Krzystztof Siwek tells me that Poland has declared April 13 a National Day of Rememberance of the Katyn martyrs. "A joint Polish-Russian commission was formed to develop an official position of both sides. Most of controversies remain unresolved. Russians fear that admitting fully to the crime against humanity would allow the victims' families to demand compensations and other penalties as in the case of Germany."

MOVIES AS PROPAGANDA

The goal of Illuminati Jewish bankers and their Masonic gentile collaborators is to meld the world's population into a single servant class in a "New World Order." This requires the destruction of the four legs of human identity: race, religion, nation and family.

The Illuminati bankers established the USSR as a preccursor to the New World Order. The execution of the Polish elite was necessary to the longterm plan. The Nazis, also an Illuminati Jewish creation, treated Polish and other national elites in a similar fashion.

The Illuminati are Luciferian. They wish to substitute their rule for God's natural and spiritual (moral) order. They need to destroy the Western European Christian heterosexual middle class to fulfill their agenda. Culture is a function of money and the Illuminati control credit. Thus our culture maintains a conspiracy of silence about the gradual subversion of Western Civilization by its own traitorous elite.

Instead the focus, in movies for e.g., is on minorities. Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" is about a redneck who learns to love Asian immigrants kids. Oscar nominated "Slumdog Millionaire" is about Bombay street kids. Sean Penn's "Milk" is about a crusader for homosexual rights. Oscar nominated "The Reader" combines pedophilia and German guilt for the Holocaust. "Revolutionary Road" presents a negative view of marriage and the 1950's, a period when the nuclear family recovered. (I liked this movie, but not the message.) "Doubt" is about homosexuality in the Catholic Church. French Best Foreign Language nominee "The Class" is about immigrant youths and how lovable they are. And on it goes, movies are propaganda for the Illuminati agenda.

When the movie is about white Americans, as in "Benjamin Button," no collective identity can be upheld, no universals revealed. Life must be literally turned upside down, in this case reversed from old to young, before it has any interest for the screenwriter, Eric Roth. This diverting but ultimately vacuous movie is a triumph of make-up. It has nothing important to say to Americans at this critical moment.

So there should be no surprise that a film about Christian martyrs and patriots coming from an anachronism called a nation like Poland will be quietly swept under the carpet by Hollywood.
Heaven forbid that the sheep figure out that the same fate may await them.

Niemcy wsopólpracowali z Jaruzelskim, komunistami, sowietami, przeciwko Polsckiej SOLIDARNOSCI!

Niemcy wsopólpracowali z Jaruzelskim, komunistami, sowietami, przeciwko Polsckiej SOLIDARNOSCI!
BARDZO WAZNE FAKTY HISTORYCZNE ukrywane PRZEZ "polskie" wladze.
Rzerzym PRAWDE. Nie dajmy sie balamucic przez media polskojezyczne!
Inz. Jerzy Skoryna
NIEMCY
Paczki zamiast wolności
Bogdan Musiał - Rzp. 12-12-2009, ostatnia aktualizacja 12-12-2009 15:13
Kanclerz Helmut Schmidt w trakcie rozmów z Erichem Honeckerem wyraził zrozumienie dla prowadzenia stanu wojennego w Polsce. Ten ostatni nie omieszkał przekazać jego słów Wojciechowi Jaruzelskiemu

źródło: forum/dpa
Helmut Schmidt i Erich Honecker podczas wizyty kanclerza RFN w NRD. Grudzień 1981 r.
W przekonaniu wielu niemieckich polityków i intelektualistów Polacy są narodem romantycznym, niemyślącym realistycznie, żyjącym mitami, wręcz infantylnym, a do tego niemającym zdolności organizacyjnych. W styczniu 1982 r. Helmut Schmidt, ówczesny kanclerz RFN, podczas rozmów z sekretarzem stanu USA Alexandrem Haigiem na temat stanu wojennego w Polsce, wyraził wątpliwości co do „zdolności organizacyjnych narodu polskiego, ze względu na jego inklinacje do romantyzmu”. Co ważne, miał przy tym na myśli nie Wojciecha Jaruzelskiego i reżim komunistyczny, lecz „Solidarność” i miliony jej członków.
Nic dziwnego, że ówczesny rząd zachodnioniemiecki wspierał, a nawet subwencjonował wręcz reżim komunistyczny w Polsce. Aby to zilustrować, przyjrzyjmy się, jak Niemcy Zachodnie zareagowały na powstanie „Solidarności” oraz w szczególności na wprowadzenie stanu wojennego w Polsce. A przecież te właśnie wydarzenia były początkiem końca reżimów komunistycznych w Europie Wschodniej
i Środkowej.
Honecker i Schmidt wspierają stan wojenny
W 1981 r. w Niemczech Zachodnich rządziła koalicja SPD i FDP. Przewodził jej socjaldemokratyczny polityk, kanclerz Helmut Schmidt, który jest postrzegany
w dzisiejszych Niemczech jako mąż stanu wielce zasłużony dla pokoju oraz rozwoju demokracji w świecie. Po wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego w Polsce
13 grudnia 1981 r. Helmut Schmidt oraz wielu innych niemieckich polityków,
w szczególności socjaldemokratycznych, a także czołowych publicystów, wykazało nie tylko zrozumienie dla wprowadzenia stanu wojennego, lecz wręcz poparło ten zbrodniczy czyn. Fakt ten po obydwu stronach Odry nie tylko stopniowo wyparto
z pamięci, ale dzisiaj twierdzi się nawet coś przeciwnego.
13 grudnia 1981 r. Helmut Schmidt przebywał z oficjalną wizytą w NRD. Pomimo nadchodzących wieści o wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego nie przerwał rozmów
z Erichem Honeckerem, szefem reżimu komunistycznego w NRD, który zarządził po powstaniu „Solidarności” nie tylko zmasowaną antypolską i antysolidarnościową oszczerczą kampanię, lecz także żądał zbrojnego rozprawienia się z tym ruchem społecznym.
Z chwilą wprowadzenia stanu wojennego Honecker i jego towarzysze wsparli polskich towarzyszy nie tylko słowem, lecz także dostawami środków i sprzętu do zwalczania demonstracji ulicznych i strajków. Pierwsza dostawa miała miejsce już 14 grudnia 1981 r. i zawierała 350000 „Reizwurfkörper” (świece dymne i inne środki miotające do zwalczania demonstracji) oraz dziesięć samochodów pancernych. Dwa dni później towarzysze z NRD dostarczyli 20 000 pałek policyjnych, 1000 tarcz i inny sprzęt dla milicji oraz oddziałów ZOMO. Całość dostaw – a ostatnie zamówienie polscy towarzysze złożyli w sierpniu 1982 r. – osiągnęła wartość 6,6 mln marek wschodnioniemieckich.
Wieść o wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego zaskoczyła, lecz nie oburzyła Helmuta Schmidta. W trakcie rozmów z Honeckerem Schmidt wyraził mianowicie – według słów komunistycznego przywódcy – swoje wsparcie i zrozumienie dla wprowadzenia stanu wojennego. Ten ostatni nie omieszkał oczywiście przekazać tych słów Wojciechowi Jaruzelskiemu.

Niemcy wsopólpracowali z Jaruzelskim, komunistami, sowietami, przeciwko Polsckiej SOLIDARNOSCI!

Niemcy wsopólpracowali z Jaruzelskim, komunistami, sowietami, przeciwko Polsckiej SOLIDARNOSCI!
BARDZO WAZNE FAKTY HISTORYCZNE ukrywane PRZEZ "polskie" wladze.
Rzerzym PRAWDE. Nie dajmy sie balamucic przez media polskojezyczne!
Inz. Jerzy Skoryna
NIEMCY
Paczki zamiast wolności
Bogdan Musiał - Rzp. 12-12-2009, ostatnia aktualizacja 12-12-2009 15:13
Kanclerz Helmut Schmidt w trakcie rozmów z Erichem Honeckerem wyraził zrozumienie dla prowadzenia stanu wojennego w Polsce. Ten ostatni nie omieszkał przekazać jego słów Wojciechowi Jaruzelskiemu

źródło: forum/dpa
Helmut Schmidt i Erich Honecker podczas wizyty kanclerza RFN w NRD. Grudzień 1981 r.
W przekonaniu wielu niemieckich polityków i intelektualistów Polacy są narodem romantycznym, niemyślącym realistycznie, żyjącym mitami, wręcz infantylnym, a do tego niemającym zdolności organizacyjnych. W styczniu 1982 r. Helmut Schmidt, ówczesny kanclerz RFN, podczas rozmów z sekretarzem stanu USA Alexandrem Haigiem na temat stanu wojennego w Polsce, wyraził wątpliwości co do „zdolności organizacyjnych narodu polskiego, ze względu na jego inklinacje do romantyzmu”. Co ważne, miał przy tym na myśli nie Wojciecha Jaruzelskiego i reżim komunistyczny, lecz „Solidarność” i miliony jej członków.
Nic dziwnego, że ówczesny rząd zachodnioniemiecki wspierał, a nawet subwencjonował wręcz reżim komunistyczny w Polsce. Aby to zilustrować, przyjrzyjmy się, jak Niemcy Zachodnie zareagowały na powstanie „Solidarności” oraz w szczególności na wprowadzenie stanu wojennego w Polsce. A przecież te właśnie wydarzenia były początkiem końca reżimów komunistycznych w Europie Wschodniej
i Środkowej.
Honecker i Schmidt wspierają stan wojenny
W 1981 r. w Niemczech Zachodnich rządziła koalicja SPD i FDP. Przewodził jej socjaldemokratyczny polityk, kanclerz Helmut Schmidt, który jest postrzegany
w dzisiejszych Niemczech jako mąż stanu wielce zasłużony dla pokoju oraz rozwoju demokracji w świecie. Po wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego w Polsce
13 grudnia 1981 r. Helmut Schmidt oraz wielu innych niemieckich polityków,
w szczególności socjaldemokratycznych, a także czołowych publicystów, wykazało nie tylko zrozumienie dla wprowadzenia stanu wojennego, lecz wręcz poparło ten zbrodniczy czyn. Fakt ten po obydwu stronach Odry nie tylko stopniowo wyparto
z pamięci, ale dzisiaj twierdzi się nawet coś przeciwnego.
13 grudnia 1981 r. Helmut Schmidt przebywał z oficjalną wizytą w NRD. Pomimo nadchodzących wieści o wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego nie przerwał rozmów
z Erichem Honeckerem, szefem reżimu komunistycznego w NRD, który zarządził po powstaniu „Solidarności” nie tylko zmasowaną antypolską i antysolidarnościową oszczerczą kampanię, lecz także żądał zbrojnego rozprawienia się z tym ruchem społecznym.
Z chwilą wprowadzenia stanu wojennego Honecker i jego towarzysze wsparli polskich towarzyszy nie tylko słowem, lecz także dostawami środków i sprzętu do zwalczania demonstracji ulicznych i strajków. Pierwsza dostawa miała miejsce już 14 grudnia 1981 r. i zawierała 350000 „Reizwurfkörper” (świece dymne i inne środki miotające do zwalczania demonstracji) oraz dziesięć samochodów pancernych. Dwa dni później towarzysze z NRD dostarczyli 20 000 pałek policyjnych, 1000 tarcz i inny sprzęt dla milicji oraz oddziałów ZOMO. Całość dostaw – a ostatnie zamówienie polscy towarzysze złożyli w sierpniu 1982 r. – osiągnęła wartość 6,6 mln marek wschodnioniemieckich.
Wieść o wprowadzeniu stanu wojennego zaskoczyła, lecz nie oburzyła Helmuta Schmidta. W trakcie rozmów z Honeckerem Schmidt wyraził mianowicie – według słów komunistycznego przywódcy – swoje wsparcie i zrozumienie dla wprowadzenia stanu wojennego. Ten ostatni nie omieszkał oczywiście przekazać tych słów Wojciechowi Jaruzelskiemu.