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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... lands which were then under the authority of the Tsars . In Poland , that is to say , in a land which in comparison to Western Europe was eco- nomically and socially backward as well as mostly agricultural , the Jews were able to engage ...
... land , belonging mostly to large Polish estates , among the landless peas- ants , as well as distributing land grants to Pol- ish soldiers and officers , the " military settlers . " According to one 1939 estimate , out of a total of ...
... land.16 If the Ukrainian peasants felt that all of this land should have been distributed to them instead , so did the Polish peasants - and with perhaps greater cause , since the land in question was expropriated from the Polish ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |