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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... villages of undependable political elements and to supply each of them with fifty to one hundred rifles . Dozens of such villages appeared in Belorussia - West and , after 1943 , some in the eastern part as well . In the Bara- nowicze ...
... villages as Cho- daczów Wielki in the county of Tarnopol , Huta Pieniacka and Podkamień in the county of Brody , Siemianówka in the county of Lwów , and Wicyn and Huta Werchobuska in the county of Złoczów , as well as dozens of other ...
... village squares , marched off to buildings , and shot five at a time . And finally , there was the procedure learned from the Nazis while serving as auxiliary police : lead the people away from their homes and villages while assuring ...
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and ... Tadeusz Piotrowski Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1998 |