The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944The revised edition includes a short history of ZEGOTA, the underground government organisation working to save the Jews, and an annotated listing of many Poles executed by the Germans for trying to shelter and save Jews. |
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In fact , when the Germans occupied the Baltic states and the Ukraine in 1941 , a
large number of the decrees promulgated in these areas were virtually identical
to similar measures in force earlier in the General Government . The relationship
...
In fact , when the Germans occupied the Baltic states and the Ukraine in 1941 , a
large number of the decrees promulgated in these areas were virtually identical
to similar measures in force earlier in the General Government . The relationship
...
Page 126
The fact that the Peasant Party saw emigration for the Jews as a solution to the
socioeconomic problem confronting Poland did not mean the party was anti -
Semitic ; after all , many Jews at the time endorsed the idea 21 Only one major
party ...
The fact that the Peasant Party saw emigration for the Jews as a solution to the
socioeconomic problem confronting Poland did not mean the party was anti -
Semitic ; after all , many Jews at the time endorsed the idea 21 Only one major
party ...
Page 129
At every opportunity ingenious quotations , historical examples , “ facts ” ,
statistics , and so on were presented . ... This may have been due to the fact that
Polish anti - Semitism was not racial in character ; instead , as already seen , it
grew out ...
At every opportunity ingenious quotations , historical examples , “ facts ” ,
statistics , and so on were presented . ... This may have been due to the fact that
Polish anti - Semitism was not racial in character ; instead , as already seen , it
grew out ...
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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 / Holocaust History / Military / World War II |
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