Harry: We have already established that in the UK school children learn about the Jewish ghetto police and the Jewish Gestapo Did you learn about Spilker's boys?
"For reasons such as these, a secret Jewish court in the Warsaw ghetto executed fifty-nine Zagiew collaborators. The Polish underground killed the collaborators as well. So did the Gestapo - because the collaborators "knew too much" and because rival Gestapo groups often killed the agents of their competitors. In time, their numbers dwindled, and the remainder, together with the decreasing numer of members of the Society of Free Jews, were incorporated into the Jewish Gestapo brigades, formed in 1941 by Hauptsturmfuehrer Alfred Spilker. Spilker was appointed by Hans Frank to head up the special Sonderkommando AS, which, in conjunction with the Abwehr, attempted to counter the efforts of the Polish underground. Sonderkommando AS consisted of groups of renegades from various nationalities. Among them were 820 Jews, who formed the Jewish brigades. During the Warsaw uprising, "Spilker's boys" were assigned the task of "cleansing" the areas captured by the Germans..."(Tadeusz Piotrowski, "Poland's Holocaust", McFarland & Co.: Jefferson, NC, 1998.)
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