German Atrocities in Poland - WW2

[Thorum]

"The German police organised a roundup in the streets of Lublin and held a number of young Polish girls and women. After a medical examination the unfortunates were led to a barracks, where they were violated one after another by young German pilots who had arrived at Lublin after completing their training at Swidnik camp."

Excerpt from "The German New Order in Poland"; published for the Polish Ministry of Information by Hutchinson & Co., London, in late 1941. The period covered by the book is September, 1939 to June, 1941. It is the follow-up volume to the original publication "The German Invasion of Poland"

[Conservationist]

published for the Polish Ministry of Information

I'm sure it is unbiased then!

[Hors]

No, the only source of reliable information is Dr. Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda!

[Lenny]

"The German police organised a roundup in the streets of Lublin and held a number of young Polish girls and women. After a medical examination the unfortunates were led to a barracks, where they were violated one after another by young German pilots who had arrived at Lublin after completing their training at Swidnik camp."

Excerpt from "The German New Order in Poland"; published for the Polish Ministry of Information by Hutchinson & Co., London, in late 1941. The period covered by the book is September, 1939 to June, 1941. It is the follow-up volume to the original publication "The German Invasion of Poland"

Without any further knowledge on this matter, I'd only say that believing every word written about Germans coming out of London publishers in "late 1941" is not the wisest of things to do.

[Lenny]

According to the link, the alleged events took place in 1940 or 1941, as best I can tell.

I guess the most obvious question is:
How would the Polish government-in-exile in London know about any of these things happening long after they were gone? All of their reports seem to involve second and third hand stories, of questionable origin. Repeated references are made to unnamed and uncited and unverifiable "reports that are circulating".

This is exactly how the gas-chambers stories got started, btw. "Black rumors" began circulating for various reasons (partly Jewish angst about their captivity and a fear of showers by the least-Westernized of the captive Jews [the brilliant book "The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes" deals with this; the gas chamber myth has an interesting deep cultural origin among European Jewry]). These "reports" were wildly amplified by yellow-journalists and used to rally people against Germany. "Mass-killings at Dachau gas chambers" were regularly published by news-outlets in the USA and Britain during the hysteria of the war. When we actually liberated Dachau and the Germans had surrendered, slowly we investigated and found out that nothing of the kind had happened there. No similar investigation ever occurred/was-publicized 1945-1970s in the new Sovet puppet of Poland [which hosts Auschwitz, etc]. (In the 1980s and 1990s a few researchers began doing tests and they too discovered that the gassings stories were a hoax in those camps; exactly like the Dachau stories).

[Tabiti]

"Lapanka" or abducting people straight from the streets of Poland was a fact as far as I know from a Polish friend of mine, whose grandfather (not jewish!) was put in working camp that way.

However, he survived and had never seen or heard something about gas chambers...

[Rainraven]

Without any further knowledge on this matter, I'd only say that believing every word written about Germans coming out of London publishers in "late 1941" is not the wisest of things to do.

Perhaps it is not wise, but then it was during wartime. Is it that surprising to think the Germans invaded a town, took the women and raped them?

[Thorum]

Perhaps it is not wise, but then it was during wartime. Is it that surprising to think the Germans invaded a town, took the women and raped them?

I don't doubt the story and am surprised others think it impossible and completely false.

I bet that virtually every country involved in WW2 participated in events such as the above mentioned.

[SwordoftheVistula]

I don't doubt the story and am surprised others think it impossible and completely false.

I bet that virtually every country involved in WW2 participated in events such as the above mentioned.

The German (also American and British) military was pretty well disciplined not to do such things. Russian and Japanese are the only ones where I have seen evidence of organized mass rapes.

[Tabiti]

On the other hand the German army had brothels with voluntary prostitutes where all was under full control.
I don't know why would they risk with women picked from the streets after all?