Wikipedia's first sentence called it “collaborationist jewish organisation in german nazi -occupied warsaw”. Today it says “underground magazine published in the warsaw ghetto by assimilated jews”.
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Żagiew ("The Torch"), also known as Żydowska Gwardia Wolności (the "Jewish Freedom Guard"), was a Nazi-collaborationist Jewish agent provocateur group in the Nazi German -occupied Poland, founded and sponsored by the Germans and led by Abraham Gancwajch . Many Żagiew members were related to the collaborationist Jewish organization Group 13 , which was also led by Gancwajch. The Nazis had over a thousand Jewish secret agents in Poland and some were permitted by their Gestapo handlers to possess and bear firearms. The organization operated primarily within the Warsaw Ghetto . Its primary goal was to infiltrate the Jewish resistance network and reveal its connections with the Polish underground aiding and hiding Jews in the General Government . The organization was able to inflict considerable damage on both fronts. Żagiew agents were also instrumental in organizing the Hotel Polski affair in Warsaw, a German scheme to lure thousands of wealthy Jews under false promises of evacuation to South America into a trap and extort their money and valuables before killing most of them.1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Żagiew (the Torch , known in Polish as Żydowska Gwardia Wolności ) was a collaborationist Jewish organisation in German Nazi -occupied Warsaw , founded by the Germans in February 1943, during World War II at the beginning of the Jewish uprising . Its primary goal was to infiltrate the Jewish resistance and reveal its connections with the Polish underground aiding and hiding Jews in Nazi German controlled General Gouvernement . The organization was able to inflict considerable damage on both fronts. Many Żagiew members were related to the Group 13 . The Nazis had over a thousand Jewish Gestapo agents in the organization. They were permitted by the Gestapo to possess and bear firearms. Żagiew agents were instrumental in organizing the Hotel Polski affair in Warsaw . The organization operated primarily within the Warsaw ghetto and most of its members were killed during Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by members of the Jewish resistance ( ŻOB ).
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Żagiew ("The Torch", Die Fackel ), also known as Żydowska Gwardia Wolności (the "Jewish Freedom Guard"), was a Nazi-collaborationist Jewish agent-provocateur group in German -occupied Poland, founded and sponsored by the Germans and led by Abraham Gancwajch .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Jewish group collaborating with the German occupation of Poland Żagiew ("The Torch", Die Fackel ), also known as Żydowska Gwardia Wolności (the "Jewish Freedom Guard"), was a Nazi-collaborationist Jewish agent-provocateur group in German -occupied Poland, founded and sponsored by the Germans and led by Abraham Gancwajch .
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collaborationist jewish organisation in german nazi -occupied warsaw
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underground magazine published in the warsaw ghetto by assimilated jews
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