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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... formed its Bukovinian Bat- talion of 1,000 men which fought in the ranks of German auxiliary forces against the Soviet partisans in Belorussia . On August 3 , 1941 , Stepan Bandera , " Führer der Organisation Ukrainischer Nation ...
... formed in October 1941 from Ukrainian prisoners freed by the Germans . Schuma - Bataillon 202 was formed in 1942 . At the end of that year and the beginning of 1943 , battalions 203 , and then 204-206 were launched . ( Battalions 207 ...
... formed a similar unit under the identical name in the spring of 1943. When attempts to unify these three UPAs failed , the OUN - B attacked Melnyk in July and Borovets in August 1943 and success- fully coerced most of their followers ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |