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Bieganski the Blog exists to further explore the themes of the book Bieganski the Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.
These themes include the false and damaging stereotype of Poles as brutes who are uniquely hateful and responsible for atrocity, and this stereotype's use in distorting WW II history and all accounts of atrocity.
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I have listened to the full 6-minute broadcast. What it does NOT say is just as important as what it does.
ReplyDeleteA rather elaborate discussion the death camp in Auschwitz but:
1). Not one mention of the Germans as the killers.
2). Statements about the local brave rescuers of Jews, but not one word of mention that the rescuers were Poles.
3). Not one mention of the fact that 3 million Poles were also murdered by the Germans.
4). Complaints that some kids don't know what the Holocaust is--never mind the fact that the Holocaust permeates the American educational system. And how many American kids have even the foggiest clue that millions of Poles were also murdered?
It is all quite Orwellian. But again, that is what Holocaust education is all about. No surprise.
Thank you for listening to the broadcast and providing that detailed account
DeleteDoes it not say those things because it thinks we already know them? Or is this too much credit? Especially the first 3.
DeleteI think that this question can be turned around.
DeleteAfter decades of constant repetition about Jews and the Holocaust, why do we keep hearing about THAT? Doesn't everybody already know about the Jews and the Germans (Nazis)--assuming that they know anything at all?
A map is really good at checking assumptions.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know, for instance, that Auschwitz was in west Prussia and not with the General Government like most of Poland.
And I don't see any "transit cities" on the map. Unless it's the red lines, not the red dots.
As you know, I try to tackle at least one Polish media issue a month - there is never any shortage, sadly. And I too have noticed that it seems to be politically incorrect to mention Germany in connection with the Holocaust nowadays. And that is OK with me, provided that Poland, which fought on the Allied Side, is not substituted.
ReplyDeleteI have suggested that the Nazis could be re-defined as Martians, as I am 99.9 per cent recurring sure that there are no Martians to slander.