Warsaw Uprising: Crimes At Radium Hospital

This Except from the book German Crimes In Poland was written by Howard Fertig and publish in 1982 in New York. This document was written for people who wanted to know more knowledge about the Warsaw Uprising between Poland and Germany. The topic of this document is a massacre that happened at the Radium Hospital in Poland conducted by German soldiers. The German government is to be held responsible for every atrocity that happened in Poland. On August 1944 German men "were purposely given drink" (CARH) before they went to the Radium hospital where they tried to kill every person in the building and burn it down. These soldiers rounded up patients and nurses in this hospital and murdered them. "The victims were lined up in rows of three and forbidden to look around; and then an order was given to set up machine guns in the rear". (CARH). This hospital was filled with patients and nurses and the soldiers felt like killing them, and that was it. They were lined and blown up in the head. The German government purposely got these soldiers drunk so they will do the work without thinking. Alcohol puts you out of your element, and that was what the German army was going for, and they got it. The soldiers killed without feeling any remorse. The most disturbing part of the article was when soldiers killed sick women. "When the soldiers noticed in the procession of a very sick woman, staggering...they ordered her to laid down near the wall...where one of them shot her and then set her fire to the body". (CARH). The excuse of the soldiers was Why keep a dieing woman alive? Killing a dieing woman is never an excuse to win a war. The German army saw this as a game. Even when the Poland had been ambushed, the German army tried to wipe out the whole country. They did not care if they were man, woman, or child; they were violated, killed, and burnt.

After the Germans ambushed the hospital they took some victims to camps, but other nurses were hiding during the ambus, and they were able to avoid being caught. They stayed and took care of the sick patients. "The nurses stealthily cooked hot food for patients at night and looked after them". (CARH). Any normal human being would have run for their life. Hide form the soldiers, but these brave nurses did not. They risked their lives and stayed for the sick. Thats the courage the Polands had that the Germany did not. The Polish kept fighting even when they were down.

This document definitely supports my opinions about the Germans being obnoxiously cruel. They could not just leave the Polish. After tramping over them, they had to wipe out their country too. This reminds of the Holocaust and the Germans who did anything to wipe out the Jews. That was some kind of tatic, when they decided to get rid of a threat they really got rid of it. I have one question for the author. I am being a little bit skeptical because this except is written with so much detail as if the author witnessed it all. I want to know if the story was completely made up or it was a series of witnesses from survivors?