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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... Polish citizens ( res- ident civilians , refugees from western and cen- tral Poland , civilian prisoners , Red Army recruits , and prisoners of war ) were deported to the Soviet Union where many of them died.48 They went to the northern ...
... people . In addition to the Polish citizens who died during the war , a number of citizens of other nations were brought to Poland . They were brought there to die . Among these were the Gypsies from Germany and German - occupied ...
... Polish citizens of German speech only in that part of Poland which was German territory in August , 1914 . Art . 12. Poland agrees that the stipulations in the foregoing Articles , so far as they affect persons belonging to racial ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |