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>From: “Louis R. Coatney”
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>Subject: (Strategic WWII naval matters and) Soviet NKVD/Nazi SS Collaboration
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> > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 07:56:11
> > Can Louis R. Coatney (or anyone) provide more information or some
> > references about the “terror technology sharing conference between the Nazi
> > SS and Soviet NKVD at Zakopane, Poland, in early 1940″ that Coatney
> > mentions in his recent H-Russia email?
> > thanks,
>
>Sure, Steve:
>
>Watson, George. “Rehearsal for the Holocaust?” COMMENTARY, Jun81, 60-61.
> Watson was identified as a Cambridge Univ. prof. His conclusion was
> that the only thing the Nazis added to Soviet mass deportation/
> extermination methods was gas … in the interests of expediency, I
> would say. They also used cremation to destroy the bodies/evidence, of
> course.
> The Soviets’ use of Siberian concentration camps … exposure,
> starvation, disease … was no less efficient, in the end.
> I picked up on Watson’s article because of his suspicion that the
> fate of the (26,000, now) Polish officers, cadets, intelligentsia …
> who were exterminated at Katyn and elsewhere … was
> decided at Zakopane in that early 1940 summit of evil.
>
> I trust everyone is aware of how slavishly the Soviets adhered to
> their alliance with the Nazis. There were those two German Communist
> women turned (back) over to the Nazis by the Soviets. The agreed Soviet
> natural resources were being railed across the Bug River right up until
> the last moments before “Barbarossa” began in the early light of
> 22Jun41.
> There are a myriad of Soviet/Nazi “cooperations.” One of the Nazi
> merchant raiders … was it KOMET? … negotiated the Arctic ice pack
> from the Atlantic to the Bering Straits, only thanks to the Red Navy’s
> help, of course. (Yes. Rohwer and Hummelchen’s CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR
> AT SEA, 2d ed. in 1 vol., says it set out from Bergen on 9Jul40. By
> that fall, it was raiding throughout Commonwealth/Allied islands, etc.,
> in the Pacific. There may have been a later one, too. As I remember,
> this one was crypticly warned to get clear of Soviet waters by May41.)
>
>Conquest, Robert. STALIN: BREAKER OF NATIONS … which chronicles the
> Soviet genocides of troublesome ethnic groups/nationalities … also
> mentions the Zakopane conference.
>
>Keith Sword’s book on the Soviet occupation/extermination of Eastern
> Poland also addresses the genocide issue. The estimate of the number
> of ethnic Poles transported to Siberia is anywhere from about 0.5
> million — Volk.’s figure, I believe — to 1.25 million. Of these,
> about 0.25 million survived to come West in 1942-43 when Stalin allowed
> them to … as allies … in respect of Western requests. Molotov’s
> pledge to the Supreme Soviet in Oct39 to wipe “out all remains of this
> misshapen offspring of the Versailles Treaty” was certainly as
> annihilatory as anything the *Nazis* said about Poland.
>
>The Soviet and Nazi totalitarianisms really weren’t that different …
> in methods or types of victims. Again, people overlook that Nazi
> means National *Socialist*.
>
>Lou Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
> www.wiu.edu/users/mslrc/
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