ABSTRACT
Marek Edelman is the only surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis of 1943. He was a critic of the Polish Communist regime. This chapter discusses the letter written by Marek Edelman to the German Ambassador to Poland, Guenter Knackstedt, on 1 October 1990. It was first reprinted in the New York Times on 15 October 1990. The division of Germany was not a punishment for the war lost by Germany or the inhuman crimes of the Nazi regime. It was a result of the military and political situation at the end of the war. Similarly, the unification of Germany is not a result of the Germans' struggle for unity, but an effect of the political, economic and military power relations in the world today. It is a gift from the victorious United States and the collapsing regime of the Soviet Union.
