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.