REASONS OF STATE
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which lasted
twenty-nine days, was, in effect, ignored
by the Polish Home Army – the country’s
Resistance movement – presumably for
reasons of state. Unhindered, the SS
ensured that the Ghetto was ‘Jew clean’
for the Fuhrer’s birthday. The following year,
during the Warsaw Uprising, which lasted
sixty-three days, the Polish Home Army
was ignored by the Soviet Army,
which halted its advance – definitely
for reasons of state – east of the Vistula
until the Resistance had been defeated.
Josef Stalin, silent anti-Semite,
wanted Poland cleansed of all nationalists
including his fellow Jew haters.
