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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Party , cynically described as " a party of leaders without followers , ” 19 was the
smallest of the four but had a great deal ... the party strongly opposed Piłsudski ' s
coup d ' état in 1926 and the subsequent regimes that dominated Poland until ...
Party , cynically described as " a party of leaders without followers , ” 19 was the
smallest of the four but had a great deal ... the party strongly opposed Piłsudski ' s
coup d ' état in 1926 and the subsequent regimes that dominated Poland until ...
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On the left was the Polish Workers Party ( Polska Partia Robotnicza ) . 61
Organized in January 1942 , the Polish Workers Party was the successor to the
Polish Communist Party which Stalin had ordered dissolved in 1938 . The Polish
Workers ...
On the left was the Polish Workers Party ( Polska Partia Robotnicza ) . 61
Organized in January 1942 , the Polish Workers Party was the successor to the
Polish Communist Party which Stalin had ordered dissolved in 1938 . The Polish
Workers ...
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Two months later , a group of Polish and Jewish Communists , who had been
indoctrinated by the Comintern , parachuted near Warsaw and , together with
another group which landed later , established the Polish Workers Party on
January 5 ...
Two months later , a group of Polish and Jewish Communists , who had been
indoctrinated by the Comintern , parachuted near Warsaw and , together with
another group which landed later , established the Polish Workers Party on
January 5 ...
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Contents
The Polish Government and the Origins of the Underground | 40 |
The Military Underground in Operation | 61 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 95 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944 |
| Author | Richard C. Lukas |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University Press of Kentucky, 1986 |
| ISBN | 0813115663, 9780813115665 |
| Length | 300 pages |
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