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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... continued un- abated to within literally hours of the German invasion . During this time some 31,000 to 35,000 Poles and some 40,000 ( German esti- mate ) to 60,000 ( Lithuanian estimate ) Lithua- nians were arrested and deported by the ...
... continued loyalty and their desire to do battle by the side of the " great German ally , " they explained what great faith they placed in the Nationalist - German alliance , and with great pathos they reminded Hitler , " The war still ...
... continued to be issued in German , and the men continued to be pawns in the German battle plan . " No doubt , that was the intended course of action , but whether this name change was ever formally made remains an open question . Major ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |