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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... former homes after the Ger- man invasion . Needless to say , this did not go over very well with the above - mentioned Belo- russian organizations , which were eagerly pre- paring their own members for this task . In Belorussia - East ...
... former minister Kazys Škirpa , the Lithuanian deputy in Berlin known for his anti - Polish , pro - German orientation , as well as the followers of the former prime min- ister of Lithuania , Augustinas Voldemaras , whose party , after ...
... Former military police , policemen , former employees of the political and criminal police and of the prisons ; d ) Former officers of the Tsarist , Petlyura , and other armies ; e ) Former officers and members of the mili- tary courts ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |