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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... 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 making way on a sidewalk for a German approaching from 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 making way on a sidewalk for a German approaching from the ...
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... death of one German . In Lublin , the Germans wiped out the village of Józefów for the death of one German family . 158 According to SS General Bach - Zelewski , any officer with the rank of cap- tain or higher had the authority to kill ...
... death of one German . In Lublin , the Germans wiped out the village of Józefów for the death of one German family . 158 According to SS General Bach - Zelewski , any officer with the rank of cap- tain or higher had the authority to kill ...
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... Death Ring , 77-80 . Witold Wasilewski , a Polish judge who had collaborated with the Nazis , died in Cracow . Kennard re- marked that the " mysterious circumstances ( of this death ) appear to be much the same as those attending the death ...
... Death Ring , 77-80 . Witold Wasilewski , a Polish judge who had collaborated with the Nazis , died in Cracow . Kennard re- marked that the " mysterious circumstances ( of this death ) appear to be much the same as those attending the death ...
Contents
FOREWORD by Norman Davies ix | 1 |
CHAPTER | 40 |
CHAPTER THREE | 61 |
Copyright | |
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