the possibility that entire nations could be liquidated, not even during wartime.
Never before has the feeling of hatred, repulsion, or disgust towards
people (Jews, Poles, or Germans) led to acts as [those in] Chełmno, Oświęcim,
Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka. What were needed to achieve the objective
of destruction of a nation were the contemporary debauchery of instincts
and the extraction of all inimical forces from the layers and recesses of
unconsciousness.
A proper evaluation of what is being done to the tormented Jewish nation,
and now also to the Polish nation, has inevitably and unavoidably to lead to
conclusions dangerous to the Germans. While leaving this matter to responsible
politicians, educators, and psychopathology experts, once again it is
stressed and underlined that throughout the entire human history from the
Stone Age until this day there has been no, even slightly similar, precedent
at any longitude or latitude, in any civilisation, or on any continent. What
was needed was a tragic combination of specific factors – the spiritual breakdown
of the Germans after the lost war of 1914–1918, the depreciation of all
established moral and ethical norms and the national megalomania strangely
combined with an inferiority complex – under the aegis of modern mechanisation
to create the atmosphere needed for mass murders.
Despite being so severely tried by fate, not long ago Polish Jews still did
not believe in the tragic possibility of the total annihilation of their nation.
Neither did Poles, and some still disbelieve it. The allied nations did not
believe it either. The same thing can be said about Germans.
The continuous blows suffered by the Jewish nation severed whole parts
of the national organism, precisely and even down to the cornerstones of synagogues
and gravestones in Jewish cemeteries, making one more and more
“used to” the thought of massacres of babies in cribs, and of women.
Still covert not long ago, the partitioner’s true objectives and intensions
are slowly becoming apparent. Jews constituted, among others, experimental
material for the new German “population policy” in Poland and presumably
[52] also in other occupied territories. The system of stunning the masses and
paralysing them spiritually was tried on Jews and Jews are the first to regain
relative balance and an ability to act.
The events in Białystok, Krynki, and Jadów are a real illustration of the
process of the Jews’ regaining strength to resist and fight after such unheard
of and unprecedented bloodshed.
