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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Page 57
... groups . Throughout the evolution of the civilian - political and military com- ponents of the Polish underground , there was a great deal of ambiguity as to where the real locus of authority in Poland was located . The average Pole ...
... groups . Throughout the evolution of the civilian - political and military com- ponents of the Polish underground , there was a great deal of ambiguity as to where the real locus of authority in Poland was located . The average Pole ...
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... groups and their military units undermining confi- dence in the ZWZ / AK . “ No one , " he declared , " has the right to undermine always the spirit of the fighting soldier , to shake his confidence in his leaders , which is the most ...
... groups and their military units undermining confi- dence in the ZWZ / AK . “ No one , " he declared , " has the right to undermine always the spirit of the fighting soldier , to shake his confidence in his leaders , which is the most ...
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... groups toward the AK on the ques- tion of cooperating against the Germans in eastern Poland in 1943 col- lapsed over the refusal of Soviet groups to recognize the AK as the legal military authority in areas the AK considered an integral ...
... groups toward the AK on the ques- tion of cooperating against the Germans in eastern Poland in 1943 col- lapsed over the refusal of Soviet groups to recognize the AK as the legal military authority in areas the AK considered an integral ...
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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