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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... Cracow , as the center of the General Government , was a major German administrative and communications center with a large German population . The city boasted four German theaters and twenty - six German restaurants ; in German eyes ...
... Cracow , as the center of the General Government , was a major German administrative and communications center with a large German population . The city boasted four German theaters and twenty - six German restaurants ; in German eyes ...
Page 106
... Cracow.46 The Polish underground theater kept the Polish heritage alive , responded to the nationalistic yearnings of the people , and served to confirm the underground code of conduct of Poles in their rela- tions with the Germans . As ...
... Cracow.46 The Polish underground theater kept the Polish heritage alive , responded to the nationalistic yearnings of the people , and served to confirm the underground code of conduct of Poles in their rela- tions with the Germans . As ...
Page 114
... Cracow , ended the requirement of passes for Poles using trains , and opened some seminaries that had been closed in 1939. They even contem- plated opening secondary schools and a school of medicine in Cracow staffed by Polish ...
... Cracow , ended the requirement of passes for Poles using trains , and opened some seminaries that had been closed in 1939. They even contem- plated opening secondary schools and a school of medicine in Cracow staffed by Polish ...
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Ainsztein AKwD Allied anti-Semitic armed attacks August Auschwitz Bach-Zelewski Bartoszewski bombing Bór Bór's British camps civilians commander Communists Cracow death Depesza Duraczyński eastern Poland Europe executions extermination Fighting forced German German occupation Gestapo groups GSHI Himmler Hitler Holocaust Home Army Ibid Iranek-Osmecki Jewish Resistance July June Kamiński Karski killed Komisja Historyczna Korboński large number leaders letter Łódź London Lwów Madajczyk major Mikołajczyk military Mitkiewicz murder Nazi Okupowanej Polsce operations organization partisan Party Peasant percent Poland Polish army Polish government Polish government-in-exile Polish Jews Polish National Polish underground Polish-Jewish Relations political Polityka Polityka III Rzeszy Polska Powstanie Raczyński Reich reprisals Ringelblum Rowecki Rowecki do Centrali Roweckiego Russians Rządu Rzeszy w Okupowanej sabotage Sanacja Secret Army September Sikorski Sikorskiego soldiers Sosnkowski Soviet Union Sprawozdanie tion units Warsaw Ghetto Warsaw Uprising Warszawskie Wojna i Okupacja Woliński YIVO Zamość Żegota złotys ZWZ/AK