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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... Ukrainian Nationalists of the OUN . For them , Germany was God's gift to Ukraine . With the prospects of war on the horizon , the OUN abandoned its prewar strategy of achieving Western Ukrainian independence by means of a popular revolt ...
... Western Ukraine " in exchange for military and clandestine collaboration.181 The ability to move German - trained Ukrainians to " Western Ukraine " for diversionary and espionage activ- ities before the invasion of the Soviet Union was ...
... Western Ukrainian Republic " ( 1918-19 ) , the Poznanian War with Germany ... Ukraine , Signed at Riga , on March 18 , 1921 , " ibid . , pp . 72-74 ; and ... Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia ( Princeton : Princeton Uni- versity ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |