The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944"There is no doubt that from the very beginning of their occupation the Nazis were intent on destroying Poland as a nation, and in his absorbing account of wartime Poland, Richard Lucas outlines the variety of means that they employed for the purpose." --The New York Review of Books "A superior work." --Library Journal "An eloquent, gripping account." --Publisher's Weekly "Lukas tells the story with an outrage properly contained within the framework of a scholarly narrative." --Washington Post |
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Page 34
Even children under sixteen years of age were vulnerable to the death penalty for making anti - German statements or simply demonstrating what the Germans described as a " hostile mentality . " A Pole could and often was shot for not ...
Even children under sixteen years of age were vulnerable to the death penalty for making anti - German statements or simply demonstrating what the Germans described as a " hostile mentality . " A Pole could and often was shot for not ...
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The consequence of his death was a flood of arrests and twenty - one executions of Polish hostages by the Germans . The assassinations of Sym and other well - known collaborators by the underground did not always meet with the approval ...
The consequence of his death was a flood of arrests and twenty - one executions of Polish hostages by the Germans . The assassinations of Sym and other well - known collaborators by the underground did not always meet with the approval ...
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Moreover , the Directorate of Civil Resistance only controlled civil underground courts ; the ZWZIAK also condemned people to death and executed a very large number of them . In addition , a large number of informers were liquidated by ...
Moreover , the Directorate of Civil Resistance only controlled civil underground courts ; the ZWZIAK also condemned people to death and executed a very large number of them . In addition , a large number of informers were liquidated by ...
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Contents
FOREWORD by Norman Davies ix | 1 |
CHAPTER | 40 |
CHAPTER THREE | 61 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944 |
| Author | Richard C. Lukas |
| Edition | 2, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Hippocrene Books, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0781809010, 9780781809016 |
| Length | 358 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Eastern History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General |
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