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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Various branches of the army and police carried out 714 executions , which took
the lives of 16 , 376 people , most of whom were Polish Christians . The
Wehrmacht committed approximately 60 percent of these crimes , with the police
...
Various branches of the army and police carried out 714 executions , which took
the lives of 16 , 376 people , most of whom were Polish Christians . The
Wehrmacht committed approximately 60 percent of these crimes , with the police
...
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While it took a courier seven to ten days to make it from Warsaw to Paris before
the defeat of France , it took seven weeks to make the journey after that . Despite
the obvious problems , the overland routes were used heavily . For example , the
...
While it took a courier seven to ten days to make it from Warsaw to Paris before
the defeat of France , it took seven weeks to make the journey after that . Despite
the obvious problems , the overland routes were used heavily . For example , the
...
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The Germans took Bór and his staff to Ożarów , where they boarded a train for
their internment at Gansenstein . Bach - Zelewski , insistent that Bór and his staff
be well treated , went out of his way to insure the safety and well - being of his ...
The Germans took Bór and his staff to Ożarów , where they boarded a train for
their internment at Gansenstein . Bach - Zelewski , insistent that Bór and his staff
be well treated , went out of his way to insure the safety and well - being of his ...
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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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