The Dungeon Democracy, by Christopher Burney. 1946. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York
Buchenwald Jews Leniency: German Permissiveness to Certain Jews. Buchenwald Poles Indomitable
This book was written by a British inmate of Buchenwald concentration camp. Because it was written immediately after the war, it is free of the Judeocentric Holocaust-centered accretions that came later. One learns of the counterintuitive Buchenwald Jews leniency, described later.
THE POLISH INMATES OF BUCHENWALD
Author Burney writes, “The Poles…were a clear and concise unit without complications. They had a few so-called Communists, but otherwise their political attitude was one of pride and independence. They disliked Germans and Russians with equal fervor, derided the French, were distant from the Czechs, but looked towards England and America with longing for a new star of liberty to rise…Centuries of oppression have made the Poles sensitive and quick to find enemies, and in the camp this showed itself in a tendency to arrogance. They were tough, too, and answered their masters in their own language of defiant insult and contempt.” (p. 112). Bravo, Poles!
Unfortunately, author Christopher Burney repeats Communist propaganda about Poland, perhaps unknowingly. He insinuates that Poland will either be a dictatorship (never was) or could–believe it or not–potentially relapse into feudalism! (p. 153). Now, Communists had raised the feudalism bogeyman at Poland’s independence (1918), but I did not know that they also trotted it out as late as 1944. Sounds like they were pretty desperate to discredit Poland at any cost.
BUCHENWALD JEWS LENIENCY
Burney comments, “So I will dismiss the German Jews by saying that, while they were subject to minor restrictions, such as being forbidden to smoke, they had been in the camp so long that they ‘knew the score’ and in a quiet way managed to lead a fairly peaceful life; and I will limit myself to a short account of the manner of handling in others.” (p. 105). Buchenwald Jews leniency: So much for the Holocaust supremacist myth that ALL Jews had it worse than all Poles under Nazi Germany!
Many eyewitnesses have mentioned the obsequiousness of Jews to the Germans, and Burney does too, “But for those Jews there was never one kind word. One thing must be admitted; that they behaved badly themselves. They were annoying in the extreme by their obsequiousness, even to the S. S., and even among themselves they acted more like animals then men, fighting and even robbing the dead and dying of their clothing…But there was a Pole who worked with me and who himself despised and hated the Jews and said so openly to me, and I never in all my time saw him offer violence, whether verbal or physical, to one of the. Not so the others.” (p. 109). This reminds us that hating Jews (as by some Poles) is not the same thing as doing violence to Jews (as by the Germans), yet Jews today often try to drag Poland into the German-made Holocaust.
For another inmate account of Buchenwald, see:
Buchenwald concentration camp was later re-used by the postwar Communists, but this fact has been buried by the Jews’ Holocaust:
