Re: [Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Beall on Richie, 'Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising'

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The text of the Polish socialist Zygmunt Zaremba's pamphlet The Warsaw Commune:
Betrayed by Stalin, Massacred by Hitler, originally published in 1947, first
English translation 1997, can be found on the Marxist Internet Archive <
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/zaremba/warsaw-commune/index.htm
>.

The progressive nature of the programme of the Warsaw fighters can be seen from
the demands that Zaremba listed:

1: A constitution ensuring that governments conform to the will of the people.
2: A democratic electoral law faithfully reflecting public opinion at the time
of the general and municipal elections.
3: An agrarian reform sharing out all agricultural land in excess of 50 hectares
along with German landed property, as determined by prior decree; the excess of
population being directed into industry and manufacture.
4: The socialisation of key industries.
5: The participation of the workers in the management of enterprises and
workers’ control of industrial production.
6: All citizens have the right to work and to a decent standard of living.
7: A proper distribution of social revenue.
8: All citizens have the right to education and culture.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Beall on Richie, 'Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising'

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At 20:40 25-12-16 -0500, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
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>For comrades information, Andrzej Wajda, the Polish director who died in 
>October, made a film titled "Kanal"

>great film that is a bit hard to get a hold of 

Well I found it is available as a torrent and am now downloading a version that 
includes 3 subtitle files. If your software is up to scratch, you should be 
able to obtain it by starting your torrent program, and clicking on the 
following magnet link (or otherwise paste it into the address bar of your 
webbrowser as a single line):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:03219efe954422209647695c625f055cdf010950=Kanal=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969

- Jeff

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Kanal, a magnificent film I saw as a boy when it came out, available here:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps=Kanal

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>For comrades information, Andrzej Wajda, the Polish director who died in 
>October, made a film titled "Kanal" in 1956 based on the Warsaw Uprising 
>(not to be confused with the Jewish revolt a year earlier). It is a 
>great film that is a bit hard to get a hold of unless you go to a 
>research library. If you are motivated, you might want to look into 
>Filmstruck, the new VOD website launched by TCM and the Criterion 
>collection that has "Kanal".
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On 12/25/16 7:55 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:

Western audiences often interpret the Warsaw Uprising of August and
September 1944 as Joseph Stalin's attempt to kill off a Polish
independence movement by having the Germans do his dirty work.



For comrades information, Andrzej Wajda, the Polish director who died in 
October, made a film titled "Kanal" in 1956 based on the Warsaw Uprising 
(not to be confused with the Jewish revolt a year earlier). It is a 
great film that is a bit hard to get a hold of unless you go to a 
research library. If you are motivated, you might want to look into 
Filmstruck, the new VOD website launched by TCM and the Criterion 
collection that has "Kanal".


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Date: Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:51 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Beall on Richie, 'Warsaw 1944: Hitler,
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Alexandra Richie.  Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw
Uprising.  New York  Farrar, Straus  Giroux, 2013.
Illustrations. 738 pp.  $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-28655-2.

Reviewed by Jonathan Beall (University of North Georgia)
Published on H-War (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Western audiences often interpret the Warsaw Uprising of August and
September 1944 as Joseph Stalin's attempt to kill off a Polish
independence movement by having the Germans do his dirty work. For
other Westerners, it is a mere anecdote to the otherwise inexorable
march of the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany. As Alexandra Richie
shows in her _Warsaw 1944_, it was more than that to the Poles, the
Germans, and the Grand Alliance. Richie places the uprising within
the larger scope of World War II and reveals the calculus of forces
that influenced the decisions to launch the uprising, the Germans'
reaction, and the uprising's eventual defeat.

Richie argues that three events influenced the course of the Warsaw
Uprising. The first was the widespread, but mistaken, Polish belief
that the Germans were on their last legs by mid-1944 after the
Soviets' successful Operation BAGRATION, which heavily influenced the
decisions to launch the uprising. Secondly, the plot to kill Adolf
Hitler by the Wehrmacht led to the elevation of Heinrich Himmler,
head of the SS, to handle the Warsaw Uprising. Third, Richie argues
that Field Marshal Walter Model's counteroffensive, which began hours
before the uprising, wholly prevented the Soviets from assisting the
Poles and allowed the Germans to quell the uprising.

As a whole, she deftly mixes macro-level events of leaders in London,
Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw with the ground-level events in Warsaw and
throughout Belorussia. In the first fifth of the book, Richie
convincingly lays out how these decisions, experiences, and
perceptions strongly influenced the course of the Warsaw Uprising.

Although it is clear that Richie is fond of Poland, she is critical
of the senior leadership of the Armia Krajowa (AK). Richie portrays
the AK commander, General Tadeusz Komorowski, known simply as "Bór,"
as a good man but not the right man to lead the AK. She describes
other AK commanders, such as General Antoni Chruściel as a
misinformed, poor leader more interested in his place in history than
actual leadership. Richie also describes the nearly impossible
situation that Bór faced in late July. Polish leaders were aware
that the Soviets disapproved of an independent, democratic Poland,
but the Poles' failure to launch an uprising might have signaled to
the Soviets that the AK was "ineffectual--or worse, had even
collaborated with the Germans" (p. 165). Knowing the political
reality of Soviet suspicions toward Poland, realizing that the AK
could not do anything, understanding that the AK would not receive
any outside help, and influenced by a mistaken belief of imminent
German defeat, a reluctant Bór decided to roll the dice and order
the uprising.

The uprising takes up the rest of the book. From a faulty starting
point, the AK launched the uprising on August 1. Richie shows the
AK's early successes but demonstrates that it was doomed to fail from
the beginning. As the German garrison stopped the AK attacks, Himmler
deployed his SS units to suppress the uprising. Hitler ordered
Himmler to end the uprising, so Himmler relied on units that had
previously used brutality against Soviet partisans now against the AK
and civilians. In great detail, Richie records the mass murders in a
western Warsaw suburb as SS units slaughtered men, women, and
children regardless of their involvement in the uprising.

As these mass murders slowed down the Germans' progress, the Russian
_osttruppen_ deployed as well. In the Ochota suburb, these Russians
who fought for the Germans looted and raped their way through the
area. Richie recounts these terrifying tragedies in unsparing detail.
In the end, Wehrmacht forces were used to flush out the AK troops and
force the AK's surrender by the end of September. The book does not
detail the street-by-street movement of the urban combat between the
AK and the Germans. Rather, it emphasizes the civilians' brutalizing
experiences.

Throughout her work, it is clear that the author has a deep love for
Poland. To Richie, Poland was clearly a victim of Nazi occupation
wherein she observes "there were no quislings