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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... enemy and exacerbated fears that the Poles would not be in a strong political position to act in a unified way when the war finally ended . Yet , despite the lack of cohesion , the groups within the Polish underground movement had a ...
... enemy and exacerbated fears that the Poles would not be in a strong political position to act in a unified way when the war finally ended . Yet , despite the lack of cohesion , the groups within the Polish underground movement had a ...
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... enemy's war machine . When the right moment finally came to attack the enemy with the full weight of the un- derground army in a general uprising , ZWZ / AK leaders feared that their forces would have been enfeebled by many repressive ...
... enemy's war machine . When the right moment finally came to attack the enemy with the full weight of the un- derground army in a general uprising , ZWZ / AK leaders feared that their forces would have been enfeebled by many repressive ...
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... enemy . The history of the Poles in the Warsaw Uprising is in a sense a collection of individual biographies of men and women , young and old , many of whom did some incredibly brave , humane , and determined things . " The spirit of ...
... enemy . The history of the Poles in the Warsaw Uprising is in a sense a collection of individual biographies of men and women , young and old , many of whom did some incredibly brave , humane , and determined things . " The spirit of ...
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