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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... NKVD began to write the last hor- rid chapter of this brutal occupation by evacu- ating thousands in death marches and death . trains into the heart of Russia and by slaugh- tering additional thousands of prisoners whom they did not ...
... NKVD officials stationed in Ejszyszki - or both ? The Polish neighbor may indeed have " led the killer band to the [ Sonenson ] family home " because of " anti - Semitic anger that Professor Eliach's family had returned to its village ...
... NKVD , the NKGB , and SMERSH the officers with an " operative value " ( i.e. , with potential for collaboration with the Soviets ) and to direct the remaining officers to various NKVD camps " lest they undertake the organization of ...
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