Professor Jan Grabowski was to give a lecture under the tendentious title ‘Polish (growing) problem with the history of the Holocaust’. The meeting took place at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. The hard-to-reach meeting was attended by a group of historians who wanted to create an opportunity to ask Grabowski questions so embarrassing they were just substantive. Grabowski has significant gaps in research methodology, which has already been shown to him by eg Piotr Gontarczyk, Tomasz Domański and Bogdan Musiał. However, Grabowski and Engelking’s circles avoid open discussion – now there is a chance to show the mistakes of the German-funded Holocaust researcher.
The tendentious thesis of the speech was to show that Poland, under patriotic patriotism, does not want to accept his allegedly revolutionary and reliable discoveries. The Polish side therefore prepared a substantive refutation – one such action has already stripped Grabowski of his place at the Center for Holocaust Research. Not everyone was admitted to the lecture – unclear registration rules for the event allowed the organizers to make a selection. But Polish historians stepped in. Grzegorz Braun also entered, referring to the possibility of parliamentary intervention. And the plan to control Grabowski was shattered to dust – the Confederate MP and the team interrupted the lecture, began to throw themselves and damaged the sound equipment.
In the eighteenth century, such riots were sponsored by the Russian ambassador Repnin – so that in the name of patriotism a speaker would perorate in such a way as to call for calm and thoughtful political action. Nothing easier under the sun. “I saw how he arranges the cheapest among the people, how he wins applause and a pension, who shouts that he lives for her” – he wrote about defenders of the fatherland like Kasprowicz.
The Russian media are already describing Grzegorz Braun. The German Historical Institute has received confirmation for its tendentious statement about ‘Poland’s growing problems with the Holocaust’. A substantively weak Grabowski would be easy to beat. And so he moved into a smaller room with a smaller group of audience – no Polish historians and no provocateurs. Naive Poles can applaud a cheap brawl and come up with actions that touch them personally.
Source: wPolityce
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