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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... became Sosemann , Mikołajczyk Micker , Witaszek Wittke ; apparently the inten- tion was to allow the two names to blend in the memory of the child so that the original name would be forgotten . Often the children got names which ...
... became Sosemann , Mikołajczyk Micker , Witaszek Wittke ; apparently the inten- tion was to allow the two names to blend in the memory of the child so that the original name would be forgotten . Often the children got names which ...
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... became the first government delegate in the Polish under- ground state . The National Democrats had been one of the strongest parties in pre- war Poland . Urban , intellectual , and anti - Semitic , the party strongly op- posed ...
... became the first government delegate in the Polish under- ground state . The National Democrats had been one of the strongest parties in pre- war Poland . Urban , intellectual , and anti - Semitic , the party strongly op- posed ...
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... became so popular that in many places in Poland it became a synonym for partisans . It was not until the establishment of the Directorate of Underground Resistance , late in 1942 , that the AK formally began to organize a partisan ...
... became so popular that in many places in Poland it became a synonym for partisans . It was not until the establishment of the Directorate of Underground Resistance , late in 1942 , that the AK formally began to organize a partisan ...
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