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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... collaborators ' in mind . " " 207 Władysław Bartoszewski , a Polish histo- rian , cofounded the Polish wartime Council for Aid to Jews and was later decorated by Yad Vashem . He wrote : " Aside from the German police and the informers ...
... collaborators , did not consider them to be such . 32 Neither should we include in the list of collaborators the hundreds of thousands of Poles who were forced into the German army , whether they carried arms or were used in aux- iliary ...
... collaborators under the German occupation , the following deserve special mention : the Belorussian auxiliary police ; the Belorussian police battalions ; the ill- fated antipartisan fortified villages ( Wehrdör- fer ) set up by the ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |