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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... extermination and enslavement . As Hitler made clear even before the German invasion of Poland , " The destruction ... Extermination by outright execution was only one method in the Nazi arsenal ; extermination by working the Poles to ...
... extermination and enslavement . As Hitler made clear even before the German invasion of Poland , " The destruction ... Extermination by outright execution was only one method in the Nazi arsenal ; extermination by working the Poles to ...
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... extermination of these peoples . " 20 Leading Wehrmacht and SS commanders were convinced that Poles and other Slavs were to share the same fate as the Jews , though the meth- ods would be varied . General Heusinger , who headed the ...
... extermination of these peoples . " 20 Leading Wehrmacht and SS commanders were convinced that Poles and other Slavs were to share the same fate as the Jews , though the meth- ods would be varied . General Heusinger , who headed the ...
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... extermination of the Polish nation and other nations , an exter- mination the most appalling expression of which is provided by the mass- murders of the Jews in Poland and in the rest of Europe which Hitler has subjected . " It used the ...
... extermination of the Polish nation and other nations , an exter- mination the most appalling expression of which is provided by the mass- murders of the Jews in Poland and in the rest of Europe which Hitler has subjected . " It used the ...
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