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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... lands and the General Government — it wreaked havoc with the organizational structure of the church . The line between the annexed lands and the General Government separated metropolitan sees from their suffragans and capriciously cut ...
... lands and the General Government — it wreaked havoc with the organizational structure of the church . The line between the annexed lands and the General Government separated metropolitan sees from their suffragans and capriciously cut ...
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... lands.69 But a Polish authority says that altogether about 750,000 Germans from the Reich and Volksdeutsch of various ... land , " he repeated , and looked mournfully around . " What ? Sixty acres too much for you ? THE GERMAN OCCUPATION ...
... lands.69 But a Polish authority says that altogether about 750,000 Germans from the Reich and Volksdeutsch of various ... land , " he repeated , and looked mournfully around . " What ? Sixty acres too much for you ? THE GERMAN OCCUPATION ...
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... land . Prior to the dissolution of the party in 1938 , Jews constituted 25 percent of the membership ; in urban areas in central Poland , the percent- age rose to 50 percent . The Jewish section of the Communist party in Poland was ...
... land . Prior to the dissolution of the party in 1938 , Jews constituted 25 percent of the membership ; in urban areas in central Poland , the percent- age rose to 50 percent . The Jewish section of the Communist party in Poland was ...
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