Nevertheless, that something is not widely spoken about, or is not a part of the school curriculum, doesn't mean that it didn't exist.

Lets look at the following historical facts:

In October 1918, Zionist Proclamation of Copenhagen stated its demands:

1. Jewish Homeland in Palestine.

2. Full emancipation of the Jews in all countries.

3. Cultural, social, and political autonomy of the Jews in all countries of Jewish Diaspora.

On the 11^th of November 1918, Independent Poland was resurrected. The Poles, between 1918 and 1922 fought six concurrent wars on the borders of Poland. Poland's borders were then defined. And Poles paid dearly for it. With their own blood.

And this was supposed to be called Judeo - Polonia. Not many Poles are aware that in the first 20 years of the XX century Poland had not only to deal with the partitioning powers and Bolsheviks, but also there was an internal enemy, an enemy who with all its powers opposed establishing of the independent Polish State.

During the last years of WWI Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian Jews strongly opposed the rebirth of independent Poland, and instead demanded establishment of the independent Jewish State in the region of Lublin, with the city of Lublin becoming it's capital on the grounds that it was a place of residence of the Jewish Waad (parliament), during the First Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka).

Such a monster established on the Polish land was an idea of the Russian Jew from Odessa, publicist and Zionist leader, Wlodzimierz Zabotynski (Vladimir Jabotinski, Zeev Yabotinsky, Jabotynsky), who was the first to use the term Judeo - Polonia.

On the German side, in 1914 the German Committee for Freedom of the Russian Jews (Deutschen Komittee zur Befreiung der russischen Juden) also proposed the project of Judeo - Polonia. (Piotr Wrobel Wiez VII-VIII 1986). The Committee was warning Germany against re-establishing of the Polish Independent State, but suggested creation of the so-called "buffer state" on the Polish lands under the Russian occupation. Ethnic composition of such a creation was supposed to be: 6mln. Jews, 1.8mln. Germans, 8mln. Poles, 5-6mln. Ukrainians, 4mln. Belorussians and 3.5mln. of Latvians and Lithuanians.

The King of this State supposed to be someone from the House of Hohenzollern, German language would be an official language (Yiddish is just a "bastardization" of the German language), German officers corps (with the Polish recruits as a "cannon fodder" of course) and the German culture. And of course, the capital of this State would be Lublin.

Poland was very lucky indeed that Germany lost WWI and this German - Jewish plans didn't eventuate. If the Germans won, such plans would be equal to the total annihilation of any thought about Polish independence. The Poles in the Prussian and Austrian partition would be totally isolated and subjected to the germanisation, and Judeo - Polonia would be ruled by the German Jews, the Poles and other nationalities such as Ukrainians and Belo Russians probably reduced to the status of slave labour. Governor Beseler was already assembling "Polnische Wermacht" staffed by the German officers with the Polish recruits, and who was to be this new Judeo - Polonia King from the House of Hohenzollern? We don't know. But the plans were there, in the stage of implementation, and were only stopped by the defeat of Germany.

Now, I think that I can be excused for drawing a parallel between the situation as described above and the situation now, in regard to the Jedwabne and an outburst of the anti – Polish propaganda. Both such outburst of propaganda were caused by the non - compliance on the Polish side with the Jewish demands. Creation of Judeo – Polonia then, and issue of the Jewish compensations now.

This century's first most blatant program of Jewish anti-Polonism took place after WWI when the Jews were furious over Poland's resurrection as an independent state. The Jews hoped that the territory of partitioned Poland would eventually be declared their homeland (Judeo-Polonia). When this did not happen they launched an international smear campaign accusing Poland of monstrous anti - Semitic atrocities. These nearly forgotten slanders are now being revived in the connection with the compensation campaign, ie. Jedwabne.

In Versailles, since the January of 1919, Polish - Zionist delegation under the leadership of Sokolow was trying to negotiate with the Polish delegation creation of the Jewish Parliament (sejm), Jewish Government that would represent the Polish Jews in the foreign relations and special ministry in the Polish Government. Shortly, they wanted a State within a State. But of course, the Polish delegation lead then by Ignacy Paderewski didn't agree to such unreasonable demands. (Where are the Poles of such calibre today? Instead of Paderewski, Dmowski or Pilsudski, today we have Kwasniewski, Geremek, Buzek and Bartoszewski)

Then the groundless Jewish accusations and propaganda started.

During these times newly independent Poland was in nearly constant state of war with the Bolsheviks, who were supported by the large (or at least the loudest and most noticeable) part of the Jewish population. So, in the war zone it was rather easy to manufacture proof of the alleged atrocities committed against the Jewish population.

The "New York Herald" published pictures from Kiszyn in Bessarabia under the title "Polish pogroms", American newspapers ran cartoons portraying Poland as bandit holding a knife above the Jewess holding a dead child, "The New York Times" wrote about pogroms in Lvov, Przemysl and Homel. In Filladelfia Jews organized an anti - Polish circus, complete with the coffins and skulls. Under such propaganda the American Congress (senator Colder) passed the resolution condemning Poland for the alleged persecution of itÂ’s Jewish population.

As put by Arthur Koestler, hardly an anti-Semite, in his "Thieves in the Night": "The Jews are the most admirable salesmen in the world, regardless of whether they sell carpets, Marxism, or their pogroms".

Under the pressure of the Jewish groups, who had a great influence on President Wilson, and even greater on Lloyd George (who never had a very friendly predisposition towards Poland in the first place, and during the Polish - Bolshevik war displayed more of the pro - Soviet, than pro-Polish attitude, see "White Eagle, Red Star" N. Davies), in the July of 1919, the Anglo-American Investigating Mission was sent to Poland, to examine the Jewish charges of over 100 pogroms in the course of which between 2500 and 3000 Jews supposedly lost their lives.

An American Jew, Henry Morgenthau, and a British Jew, Sir Stuart M. Samuel headed this Commission. Those could hardly be accused of a bias against the Jewish charges. Yet, after two months of investigation, 13 of July to 13 of September 1919, Commission arrived to the conclusion known as the Morhenthau Report, which could be summarised as follows:

"The word pogrom conveys massacres or excesses against a portion of the population which are either organized or countenanced by the authorities ... Since the Polish authorities could not be held responsible for the excesses committed, these lose the character of pogroms."

As to the "excesses committed", the Commission has determined that the real reason for the Jewish charges was to be found in the fact that "...it had seemed certain to them that one of the two, the German or the Russian Empire, must win, and that the Jews, who had their money staked on both, were safe, but the despised Poland came in first, and the Jews could hardly believe in its resurrection..."

"At the Armistice, there were therefore Jewish demonstrations against the 'Polish goose', as they termed the newly arisen Polish White Eagle ... "

And for this reason, they demanded that "Until we can have Palestine as a national home, we want to be organized as a nation in Poland..."

"They want Home Rule, a political and cultural independence in Poland, and a national home in Palestine."

Taking this attitude of the Jews, who have become Polish citizens against their will, into consideration, the Commission came to the conclusion that the "excesses committed" were of a political rather than anti - Semitic character. To boot, far from over 100, there had been only two of them in the territory recognized by the Allies as Poland proper, the so-called Congress Poland: in Kielce, 11 November 1918, and in Czestochowa, 27 May 1919, in the course of which nine Jews lost their lives.

And both were spontaneous outbreaks of violence, occasioned by the Jewish attitude toward the reborn Polish State and "certain malicious German and Russian influence, anxious to prevent foreign financial aid to Poland and using criticism of the Polish State as a weapon to forestall the assistance of the allied and associated powers."

And the report of the Commission continues:

The numerical inferiority of the Jews in what is undeniably Poland has at the same time proved no check to their political assertiveness."

Their "political assertiveness" led, among others, to the "outbreak in Kielce on the day of the armistice, November 11, 1918, which the Poles began celebrating with euphoria the moment that the Austrian garrison departed from the city. The Jews, by contrast, called a meeting in support of their own nationalist aim. Contending that they were no Poles of Mosaic confession, but Jews, they demanded a national autonomy.

"The Jewish meeting, which was easily rumoured to be in opposition to Polish national independence, was thus broken up with fatal results to four people and injuries to others before the Polish authorities came into existence to organize a service of security."

In Czestochowa, by contrast, riots broke out after a Jew had shot a Polish officer in the head. But after five Jewish deaths, the Polish military authorities had contained them.

Reported also was a "mob violence" in Kolbuszowa on 27 May, 1919, "which resulted in death on both sides. Embittered by their supposed exploitation by the Jews, the peasants from the surrounding area staged a riot that was soon enough contained by the Polish Army. But not before eight Jews, three peasants, and two Polish soldiers lost their lives ... hardly a pogrom in the proper sense of the word."

The remaining Jewish charges of pogroms were dismissed by the Commission as inapplicable to the conditions existing in a war zone.

In the course of three days of street fighting in Wilno, thirty-three Polish soldiers lost their lives to the bullets of the Jewish garrison guard. And in Lida, Pinsk, and Minsk the cause of Polish retaliation was found to be "active sympathy with the Bolsheviks by Jews sniping at the [Polish soldiers] during the street fighting". The Commission's conclusion thus was that while the reaction of Polish soldiers might have been excessive, "a military court would have acquitted them as being fully within their rights."

Such was the case history of over 100 pogroms, in the course of which 2,500 to 3,000 Jews supposedly lost their lives – just because they were Jews.

Dismissing the nine Jewish lives lost in Kielce and Czestochowa as a result of neither a pogrom nor the supposed Polish anti-Semitism, the Anglo-American Commission dismissed also the Jewish casualties incurred in the course of military operations in the defence of Lwow and the war with the Soviet Russia. According to the American version, the latter amounted to 234, according to the British estimate, to app. 300.

By adding an innocuous little zero to those numbers, the Jews created a wave of pogroms, meant to shock the world's public opinion to the detriment of the good name of the reborn Polish State and thus placed themselves clearly on the side of its enemies.

Approximately 600 000 Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union settled illegally in Poland, and after 1926, on the Pilsudski's intervention were granted the Polish citizenship. It would appear that we never learn in this regard.

But this was not an end to the idea of Judeo - Polonia. It got revived again during WWII.  And don't forget that the Zionist Federation of Germany sent a memorandum of support to the Nazi Party on June 21, 1933. In it the Federation noted:

"...A rebirth of national life such as is occurring in German life ... must also take place in the Jewish national group.

"On the foundation of the new [Nazi] state which has established the principle of race, we wish so to fit our community into the total structure, so that for us, too, in the sphere assigned to us, fruitful activity for the Fatherland is possible...."[81] Far from repudiating this policy, the World Zionist Organization Congress in 1933 defeated a resolution calling for action against Hitler by a vote of 240 to 43.

Mussolini set up squadrons of the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, Betar, in black shirts in emulation of his own Fascist bands.

When Menachem Begin became chief of Betar, he preferred the brown shirts of the Hitler gangs, a uniform Begin and Betar members wore to all meetings and rallies - at which they greeted each other, opened and closed meetings with the fascist salute.

Here comes the Zionist, Wlodzimierz Zabotynski again

In his book published in London in 1940, (V.Jabotinsky „The Jewish War Front" George Allen & Unwin Ltd.) he wrote:

"It is apparently the intention of the Nazi government to carve out a district around the city of Lublin (...) and to use it for the compulsory settlement of Jews. There is some method in this choice: the Lublin province had the highest percentage of Jews among all provinces of Poland - 42.9% in the towns, 6% in villages, 13% in all. A beginning has already been made in respect of the transportation of Jews to this district. (...)

It is not yet known whether the reservation is intended for all the Jews under the Control of Germany or only for certain sections or categories. (...)

It is quite possible that the Lublin reservation scheme may be abandoned, or that it may develop into something big, or may stop in the middle of this development. What the maximum of this development (if attainable) would be may be gauged from the following computation recently made by the "Manchester Guardian": The Nazis', that newspaper says, ' have not indeed revealed how big the reserve is going to be. If one generously assumes that it covers the whole of the Lublin voivodship it will have an area of 13,000 (?) square miles. Its present population is 2,464,600, of whom 259,500 are Jews. The Jews will stay, but the other inhabitants will have to leave for the Remainder State, for Germany, or for Russia. (...) In their place, it is planned to send (...) Jews. (...) In all, this province (...) would have to support over 3,000,000 peopleÂ’.

One thing is clear: in making any forecasts of the future of Poland's Jewish problem, the contingency must be very seriously taken into account that there may be found to exist, at the moment of restoration, an area of some importance to which hundreds of thousands of Jews have been transported from other parts of Poland. (...)

What to do with these Jews ? Logically, the reincorporation of the Lublin district into a democratic Poland where all enjoy equal rights can only mean that those hundreds of thousands of Jews would be free to disperse from the congested area and return to their former towns. (...) The correct application of this logical course would, however; threaten at once to upset the balance of economic interests." (Page 80—83).

"In this war the Jewish people should count as one of the Allied nations". (p. 14). "This is the Jews' war as much as Britain's, France and Poland's". (p. 239). "The Jewish war demands are: (...) The Jewish State as a war aim of the Allies". (p. 237). "Our claim is for the full status of an Allied nation". (p. 226)."

But there is one more question left: where the great hero of the Zionist movement envisioned such Jewish State to be created? Lets look once more in his book:

"The essential and vital interest of the Jewish masses in the Zone of Distress(...) demand the recognition of two principles: (...) The second principle is this: The territorial concentration of Jewish emigrants, and above all, no encouragement of their further dispersion as minorities among other peoples. (...) Any sane observer (...) will realize that the only sound policy is to look for some way of allowing these emigrants to create a homeland of their own. Theoretically speaking, there might be one homeland for all, or several homelands. (...) A homeland for the Jews means a land where they would dwell only among Jews, or would at least constitute a majority. (...) Perhaps this does not necessarily imply full political independence; but it certainly implies a very considerable degree of internal sovereignty; above all, it implies the reservation for this purpose of a sufficiently extensive area (or, in theory, several extensive areas) ". (p. 126—127)"

Did Zabotynski envisioned the Lublinland, after the Germany is defeated, as one of the several homelands or several extensive areas?

The German – Jewish plans of establishing the independent Jewish State on the Polish lands are today seldom mentioned in the history of the WWI and WWII. How many Poles do realise how great was this danger that we avoided only by the miracle?

But many Jews can't forget that their plans of creating Judeo - Polonia so miserably failed. And they can't forget our resistance that stoped their dreams.

Could this be one of the reasons that they attack us with their groundless accusations of cooperation with the Nazi Germany?

And maybe another reason for such attacks is an attempt to cover up their own cooperation with the Germans and the Soviets against Poland?

Maybe the reason for the current attack is contained in the words of the Israeli author Moshe Leshem:

"Israelis and American Jews fully agree that the memory of the Holocaust is an indispensable weapon-one that must be used relentlessly against their common enemy...Jewish organizations and individuals thus labor continuously to remind the world of it. In America, the perpetuation of the Holocaust memory is now a $100-million-a-year enterprise, part of which is government-funded." ( Balaam's Curse, p. 228)

Or maybe in the words of Israel Singer, General Secretary of the World Jewish Congress who stated that: