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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... farmers even thought conditions might improve for them compared to their situation under the Sanacja , the prewar Polish regime . And German benevolences - cancel- lation of farmers ' debts to Jewish creditors , elimination of taxes ...
... farmers even thought conditions might improve for them compared to their situation under the Sanacja , the prewar Polish regime . And German benevolences - cancel- lation of farmers ' debts to Jewish creditors , elimination of taxes ...
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... farmers when land was needed for war factories and airfields . 124 The consequence of all these German policies was the pauperization of the Polish people . In 1940-41 , the net income of the Poles fell below 40 percent of that in 1938 ...
... farmers when land was needed for war factories and airfields . 124 The consequence of all these German policies was the pauperization of the Polish people . In 1940-41 , the net income of the Poles fell below 40 percent of that in 1938 ...
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... farmer saw the Warsaw Uprising as a chance to annihilate the Poles . " My Führer , " Himmler de- clared , " Warsaw . . . will be erased [ : ] this nation that has blocked our way to the East for the past 700 years and which has been a ...
... farmer saw the Warsaw Uprising as a chance to annihilate the Poles . " My Führer , " Himmler de- clared , " Warsaw . . . will be erased [ : ] this nation that has blocked our way to the East for the past 700 years and which has been a ...
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