Volhynia Genocidum Atrox Explained
The late Professor Ryszard Klemens Szawłowski is the creator of the important concept of GENOCIDUM ATROX. He was a professor at the University of Lodz, Humboldt University in Berlin, the Federal Institute of Sovietology in Bonn, the University of Glasgow in Scotland, the University of Calgary in Canada, and the Polish University Abroad. Also, he was a member of the Polish Scientific Society Abroad. Prof. Szawłowski is the GIANT of international humanitarian law. One of the WISEST Poles in history. It was he who said:
“The Ukrainian genocide against Poles has several fatal distinguishing features (aggravating circumstances) compared to the German and Soviet genocides.”
Firstly:
Its purpose was to physically exterminate (murder) as quickly as possible—”there and then”—all Poles who could be reached, from infants to the elderly, without any distinction of gender or age. In this respect, it is comparable only to the German total genocide of the Jews.
Moreover, let us add that when it comes to the extermination of Jews – Polish citizens – in the southeastern borderlands of the Republic of Poland, Ukrainians not only played a significant role in all the mass acts of genocide against Jews, either jointly with the Germans or independently under German supervision, but also committed similar acts on their own as early as the summer of 1941, when German troops entered. Later, after the liquidation of ghettos with the Germans, mainly from the second half of 1942, Ukrainians rounded up and murdered individual Jews still in hiding. All of these “actions,” it should be recalled, were accompanied by massive property theft.
Secondly:
The Ukrainian genocide was usually accompanied by the use of the most barbaric tortures.
This refers to the haidamak traditions dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries (the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Koliyivshchyna uprisings), which included hacking victims with axes, throwing the wounded into wells, sawing them apart, dragging them by horseback, gouging out eyes, tearing out tongues, and so on. The Germans, and even the Soviets (as a rule), did not commit such barbaric acts. Of course, there were beatings and often brutal abuse during interrogations and in concentration camps (where there was also severe starvation and backbreaking labor, criminal medical experiments on the Germans, and so on), but there was no murder combined with cutting off or tearing off body parts, sawing, ripping open bellies and pulling out entrails, and so on.
Very often, Poles who wanted to escape the genocide already taking place in the neighboring district or commune were encouraged to stay by “guaranteeing” their safety (occasionally even in writing!) or even threatened that their escape would be treated as “treason” towards Ukrainians – all in order to murder them all on the spot!
Thirdly:
While the German and Soviet genocide was committed exclusively by “specialized” criminal uniformed formations: on the German side, in particular the so-called Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei and SD (Sicherheitsdienst); on the Soviet side, the NKVD troops – the situation was different when it came to the Ukrainian genocide.
In this case, alongside the dominant scene of the Bandera Ukrainian Insurgent Army (in Volhynia) and the competing formations of the Bulbovites and Melnykites, as well as the Ukrainian police created by the Germans in the second half of 1941 (which deserted in early 1943), especially in larger genocidal actions, tens of thousands of local Ukrainian peasants also participated. Included in this atrocity were the so-called Self-Defense Kushchov Viddily (formally rural “self-defense” units, which in practice, however, constituted auxiliary forces of the UPA in the genocide against Poles).
These were neighbors, gangs armed with axes, pitchforks, and the like—a kind of Ukrainian mass levy. Moreover, they were sometimes accompanied by Ukrainian women, teenagers, and even children, engaging in mass looting, arson, and finishing off wounded Poles. This occurred despite what were often long-standing supposed friendships, or even debts of gratitude to certain Poles.
That’s why I clearly define the genocide in Volhynia during World War II as Ukrainian genocide (and not, for example, as committed by the UPA, Banderites, Ukrainian nationalists, or the like). Contrary to what Wiktor Poliszczuk repeatedly points out in his publications, the genocide in Volhynia – as documented by the Siemaszkos – was committed by large numbers of local Ukrainians, not only UPA “fighters” but also thousands of ordinary peasants (often coerced by the UPA), who, unfortunately, often assisted them in finishing off, setting fire to, and especially in robbing, their women, adolescents, and sometimes even children.
FOURTH:
In the cases of German and Soviet genocide against Poles, the crimes were committed by the occupiers. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian genocide was perpetrated by Ukrainians—Polish citizens—residents of those territories during the Second Polish Republic, who showed even the slightest degree of loyalty. Yet, let us add, when it suited them, Ukrainians continued to eagerly claim Polish citizenship, or even, using stolen personal documents of murdered Poles, “repatriated” to Poland under their names or migrated to the West.
FIFTH:
The Ukrainian genocide was primarily associated with the barbaric “scorched earth” policy . After the stolen property and livestock of the murdered Poles, their buildings were usually burned (even orchards were cut down!), and public buildings, such as schools, were often destroyed. As part of this effort, a large number of historic Polish manors and farm buildings, as well as Catholic churches and chapels, were also completely destroyed. Such additional barbarity was generally not demonstrated by either the Germans or the Soviets.
Sixthly:
Germany has long acknowledged its crimes and publicly apologized for them. For example, German President Roman Herzog, speaking in Warsaw at the ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising on August 1, 1994, stated clearly:
“I bow my head before the fighters of the Warsaw Uprising and all Polish victims of the war. I ask for forgiveness for what the Germans did.”
Russian President Boris Yeltsin also made a few gestures, including when, while paying tribute to the victims of Katyn at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw on August 25, 1993, he kissed the hand of Monsignor Zdzisław Peszkowski and whispered the words “I’m sorry.” That evening, Polish Television broadcast this message to all of Poland. The genocide against Poles has also been openly discussed in German literature, and for years in Russian literature.
However, the behavior of Ukrainians in this respect is generally completely different: they demonstrate silence, great deception or even gross lies.
IN SUMMARY:
The Ukrainian genocide against Poles during World War II, in terms of its ruthlessness and barbarity, and after its completion – to this day! – due to denials or at least thickly sewn relativizations and evasions – significantly “exceeds” the German and Soviet genocides.
Source: Prof. Ryszard Szawłowski – “Three Genocides” – article archived at @ipngovpl
In the photo above: Vice President of the District Court Wincenty Szawłowski with his wife Maria and children Ryszard and Janina. The elite of the Polish Nation that is gone and will NEVER be again – Rivne 1936.
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More information about Prof. Szawłowski can be found here: https://glosprawa.pl/artykul-187/profesor-ryszard-szawlowski-1929-2020
