Elisabeth G. Sledziewski on the poor understanding of Polish history

Elisabeth G. Sledziewski is a professor of political science in Strasbourg. She is dismayed that the French confuse the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19 to 16, 1943) with the official Warsaw uprising (August 1st to October 1944) "This confusion is actually part of a general poor understanding of what happened in Poland during the war, because the French only tend to retain the extermination of the Jewish population. This ignorance leads to the denial of historical reality, of the crushing of insurgents in 1944 by the Nazis after almost five years of barbaric occupation and the cynical betrayal of the Stalinist former occupant turned 'ally'. It is as if the horrors of the Shoah in a Poland occupied and/or annexed by the 3rd Reich cancelled out the ordeal of the entire Polish nation that Hitler had started to reduce to slavery as early as September 1939. The Polish do not understand this denial and suffer from it. "

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