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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... lived in Kielce . In May of that year , that number fell to 163. Except for a few families who lived in pri- vate residences in town , the rest lived in a Jew- ish Center located at 7 Planty Street , regarded by some as a UB domicile ...
... lived on the land . At this time , they were untroubled by nationalistic aspirations . The Poles , loyal to their country , inhabited the towns , especially Wilno , but also owned large estates and lived in the villages . The Russians lived ...
... lived in the villages ; the towns were occupied mostly by Poles and Jews . The cultural center of Lwów , like that of Wilno , was predominantly Polish . The majority of the Poles , however , also lived in villages , a pattern that did ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |