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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... shot to death by the Germans for providing shelter in their monastery to two Jew- ish families . On December 14 , 1943 , a German notice in Lwów contained the names of fifty- five Poles who were executed . Eight of these were shot for ...
... shot because supposedly they took an active in the defense of Grodno . " part Lesław Kiszyński : Schoolchildren caught after 7:00 p.m. were taken to a jail and not even allowed an explanation . After a few days , they were led under ...
... shot . Those to be executed were often brought by rail and by truck , but just as often they were marched to their graves . Generally speaking , even when guarded by a handful of Lithuanian policemen , the Jews went there without ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |