Declassified WWII Docs: 500 Americans and Brits Killed by Poles During War

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Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, the Russian Ministry of Defence has de-classified and released documents about the liberation of Warsaw on this very day in 1945. They shed light on yet unknown atrocities committed by the Nazis as well as acts by the Polish resistance movement, The Home Army.

At least 500 Brits and Americans were murdered in the extermination camp Treblinka, built in Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, newly published materials from the Russian Defence Ministry’s central achieves reveal.

One of the documents, declassified by the Russian military, states that after a trip to the notorious concentration camp set up in July 1942 between Warsaw and Bialystok, a journalist from the military newspaper “Za Rodinu” reported to the political officer of the 70th Army that along with Jews, Romani, Poles, and other people persecuted by the Nazis were being killed there.

The document cited says that according to reports, in 1942, the Germans ordered all Britons and Americans to gather on Warsaw’s prison square for a prisoner of war swap. Instead of being swapped for German prisoners, they were taken to the camp where many Jews had been brought. Like thousands of others before them, they were immediately ordered to the camp’s so-called bathhouse and killed.



Warsaw Left in Ruins

Apart from this episode, the newly-published papers document other atrocities by the Nazis as well as the Polish Home Army’s operations in the rear of the Soviet Red Army in Poland, Belorussia, and Lithuania. According to these materials, the Germans razed several city blocks to the ground, including objects of cultural heritage, as they retreated from Warsaw during an operation that took the lives of 200,000 Soviet soldiers. A report to the Chief Political Administration of the Soviet Armed Forces describes gravel-mounds in the city, in which up to 120,000 murdered and burned Poles were unceremoniously buried.

“Warsaw is destroyed… There is no monument left. Cultural valuables have been destroyed and plundered. There are graves in almost every yard, the bodies of tortured Poles are scattered in the streets”, this report says.

The archive materials also include photos from the Directorate of the 1st Belorussian front that captured a breakthrough battle, the aftermath of storming the Nazi’s powerful defences, and preparatory fire during the liberation of Warsaw on 17 January 1945. The Defence Ministry points out that this publication should help protect history from defamation, fight against rewriting history, and revision of World War II’s results.

Soviet soldiers liberating Auschwitz
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  1. The declassified documents are Armija Kraiowa (Home Army) reports and therefore of very dubious value. The Home Army was an underground resistance movement and collated these intelligence reports to send to the Polish govt in exile in London. The information was nothing more than gossip in most cases, a lot of it gathered by young women and it was almost always third party reports – ‘my cousin Wladek met a man in Krakow who had just arrived by train from Lublin and he said he saw piles of dead bodies along the rail tracks for miles and miles and most of them were stripped naked’. That sort of thing, gossip gathered under wartime conditions in an occupied nation where it was extremely hard to gather information and always heavily biased to paint the occupiers in as bad a light as possible.

  2. Today in Moscow, a grandiose salute in honor of the liberation of Warsaw. And in Poland, the authorities do not celebrate this date at all! Simple Poles come to the graves of soldiers to honor their memory! All soldiers, both Soviet and Polish. The Nazis destroyed the ancient city, killed 400,000 civilians. The reports on the advance of the troops indicate that the exhausted Poles go out to meet them with joy, as liberators. My country is in ruins, but immediately begins to supply the inhabitants of Poland with bread, medicines, cars, etc. This is what an ungrateful bastards they need to be in the Polish government to deny it now and defame the honor of a Soviet soldier! Wait, ignorant fools, you will learn a lot more. The process has begun!

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