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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... Jews and Germans . It was this class which built and peopled the towns of Poland both large and small . Before the Second World War , the Jews constituted one - third of town dwellers in all of Poland . Over 80 percent of the Jews lived ...
... Jews welcomed the Soviet invasion , implanting in Polish memory the image of Jewish crowds greeting the invad- ing Red Army as their liberator . " 78 That image , delineated more precisely , was one of Jews danc- ing on Polish graves . A ...
... Jews both during and after the war . Yet , this fact needs to be placed beside another truth : that many Poles risked their lives to help Jews in the ghettos and to save Jews on the outside . Assistance to Jews In Poland , during the ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |