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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... camps , Himmler said : " All Polish specialists will be exploited in our ... concentration camp , from which many never returned.20 During the Aktion A ... concentration camps and jails , 50 died in the ghetto , and 12 perished in the ...
... concentration camps were the Gypsies , who , like the Jews , were slated for total exter- mination . Although the king of the European Gypsies and president of the Gypsies in the General Government , Rudolf Kwiek , in 1942 offered ...
... concentration camps . He person- ally tortured and executed many Germans and Poles after the war , but he later claimed that he did it ( in the case of the former ) because of the way he had been treated in German concentration camps ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |