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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... peasants still managed to get into the square . Reinforced by those peas- ants who returned from the cattle market , they then started to throw stones at the win- dows of Jewish apartments in the square and on Warszawska Street . At ...
... peasants for provisions . " We naturally told them that we belonged to the Polish army which is operating in secret . " 126 The peasants , poor as they were and al- ready burdened with harsh German quotas , ini- tially were willing to ...
... peasants ' volunteer militias , the Russians never trusted the " Polish Belorussians . " It is true that the Soviet " libera- tors " deported all the Polish military and civil- ian settlers , all the hated foresters , all the officials ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |