The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944Emphasizes that the Polish people, like the Jews, were victims of a German war of annihilation which nearly succeeded. While some Poles helped Jews, others helped the Germans to hunt them down. However, these were condemned by the Polish underground. Ch. 5 (pp. 121-151) argues that Polish failure to save the Jews was due not to antisemitism but rather to preoccupation with their own survival and lack of mutual social contacts. Contends that Polish antisemitism was mainly an expression of resentment against Jewish economic domination, matched by Jewish discrimination against Poles. Poles resented the Jewish welcome of the Soviets in 1939. Up to 1942, they believed that the Jews were relatively safe in the ghettos. also denies "exaggerated" accusations of antisemitism in the Anders Army. Ch. 6 (pp. 152-181) describes actions of the government-in-exile on behalf of the Jews; denies that the Home Army failed to help the Warsaw ghetto fighters. |
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... Gestapo , and military a license to steal per- sonal possessions . The German army had not been immune to the lure of plunder that awaited them in Poland ; as one journalist observed : The old German army usually respected private ...
... Gestapo , and military a license to steal per- sonal possessions . The German army had not been immune to the lure of plunder that awaited them in Poland ; as one journalist observed : The old German army usually respected private ...
Page 92
... Gestapo . The Gestapo infiltrated the Sword and Plow ( Miecz i Pług ) , a right - wing organization that had been subordinated to the ZWZ / AK , and the AK shot three of the organization's top leaders for being Gestapo agents . 121 ...
... Gestapo . The Gestapo infiltrated the Sword and Plow ( Miecz i Pług ) , a right - wing organization that had been subordinated to the ZWZ / AK , and the AK shot three of the organization's top leaders for being Gestapo agents . 121 ...
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... Gestapo agents . 121 Obviously , the ar- rests and executions of ZWZ / AK officers created shortages of people to ... Gestapo and was the principal operative in the conspiracy . Before the AK had an opportunity to rescue Rowecki , the ...
... Gestapo agents . 121 Obviously , the ar- rests and executions of ZWZ / AK officers created shortages of people to ... Gestapo and was the principal operative in the conspiracy . Before the AK had an opportunity to rescue Rowecki , the ...
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