Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 1998 - 437 strán (strany) With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East Prussia. The resulting conglomeration of ethnic groups left many substantial minorities wanting independence. The approach of World War II provided the minorities' leaders a new opportunity in their nationalist movements, and many sided with one or the other of Poland's two enemies--the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany--in hopes of achieving their goals at the expense of Poland and its people. Based on primary and secondary sources in numerous languages (including Polish, German, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian and English), this work examines the roles of the ethnic minorities in the collapse of the Republic and in the atrocities that occurred under the occupying troops. The Polish government's response to mounting ethnic tensions in the prewar era and its conduct of the war effort are also examined. |
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... Belorussian National Union ( Belarus- kaye Narodnaye Abyednannye , or BNA ) , and the nationalist group of Father Wincenty Godlewski rejected the fascist propaganda spewed out by the Novy Shlakh . By 1939 , how- ever , with more intense ...
... Belorussian Catholic priests . The SD was informed by the Belorussian Orthodox clergy that even their Catholic counterparts were being used by the Catholic hierarchy to further the Polish cause . No one could have accused Father ...
... Belorussian population suspected of col- laborating with the Soviet partisans . The extermination of the Belorussians in the dis- trict of Lida also escalated . According to Belorussian estimates , from mid - February to mid - April ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |