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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... taken into the USSR as prisoners of war ; and about 20,000 went there to work . About half of the deportees ( 440,000 ) ended up in labor camps and prisons . The other half were dumped into settlements ( posëlki ) all over the Soviet ...
... taken to concentration camps . The transports were usually taken from the prison in the early morning . The Polish staff was kept away from this action , and working prisoners were not allowed out of their cells or were pulled out of ...
... taken an equal place alongside Western European countries in rescuing Jews . The blind folly of Poland's anti - Semites , who have learnt noth- ing , has been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |