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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... civilians . At times , even neighbors participated in the massacres . It was not until the summer of 1943 , when the Poles in Wołyń began to enter the German police ( vacated by the Ukrainians ) for self- defense and retaliation , that ...
... civilians , the fol- lowing are noteworthy : 1. The 1940-41 massive deportations to the Gulag by the Soviets . ( Of all people deported , ethnic Poles constituted an absolute majority . ) 2. The liquidation of the Polish intelli ...
... civilians only because they were Poles . The Ukrainian nationalists also actively participated in the crimes of the occupying fascist regime . On their con- science lie the massive murders of civilians - in Babi Yar and Khatyn [ not to ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |