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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... June 1941. But one should not for that reason discount them , or try to read history backward . " 19 Under the Soviet occupation , the Polish people's perception was that they were the vic- tims of a genocidal policy aided and abetted ...
... June 1944 , the members of his unit killed 6,000 " Bolsheviks . " We can surmise that the vast majority of them consisted of the civil- ian Belorussian population suspected of col- laborating with the Soviet partisans . The ...
... June 14 , 1940 , when the Soviet Union handed Lithuania an ultimatum and the Red Army proceeded to reoccupy ( on June 15 ) not only the Wilno region but the whole of the twenty - three - year- old Lithuanian Republic - according to the ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |