251:!! Unfortunately, the below entry on Konzentrazionslager Warschau is highly misleading. No evidence exists of neither the gas chamber in the West Warsaw tunnel, nor of the claimed huge number of victims (who, according to the proponents of the KL Warschau campaign, are to have been "Polish Christians," victims of a "Christian Holocaust"). The evidenced produced in her book by Maria Trzcinska is flawed and biased. None of the historians specializing in WWII nor any survivors of the occupation in Warsaw support her argument or even take it seriously. Similar is the position on the issue of the Institute of National Rememberance (IPN). The camp set up in the area of the prison at Gesiowka was the only unit of the alleged "death camp KL Warschau" that ever existed. The total number of victims of KL Warschau could have amounted to a few tens of thousands at the most, the great majority of whom were in fact not Polish Christians, but non-Polish Jews (Greek, Belgian, French, etc.) brought to Warsaw in 1943 as labor force to dismantle the remainings of what used to be the Warsaw ghetto. Had a major death camp eqipped with gas chambers and operating on the scale similar to Treblinka (200,000 victims in 1,5 year) been located in the middle of Warsaw, it would have been widely known both during and after the Nazi occupation. The currently on-going campaign that aims at winning official recognition of the alleged death camp is an unfortunate product of the nationalist imagination, conspiracy theory thinking, and a political undertaking of the nationalist catholic right. It seeks to create a counter-narrative to the history of the Holocaust and foreground what is perceived as the unrecognized suffering of the Catholic Poles. In fact, and fortunately, it is--as of yet--merely a marginal artifact of local exoticism, and should only be regarded as such.
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