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 149
... murder of their kinsmen in Poland . 124 But budgetary limitations were obviously not the only , or even the most ... murdered . . . . Our entire people will be destroyed . . . . This cannot be prevented by any force in Poland , neither ...
... murder of their kinsmen in Poland . 124 But budgetary limitations were obviously not the only , or even the most ... murdered . . . . Our entire people will be destroyed . . . . This cannot be prevented by any force in Poland , neither ...
Page 157
... murder of Jews . On July 27 , 1942 , the Jewish Telegraph Agency , obviously getting its information from Polish ... murder all the Jews in Poland ; and in November 1942 , he gave a far more optimistic figure concerning Jewish survivors ...
... murder of Jews . On July 27 , 1942 , the Jewish Telegraph Agency , obviously getting its information from Polish ... murder all the Jews in Poland ; and in November 1942 , he gave a far more optimistic figure concerning Jewish survivors ...
Page 205
... murdered during the war . Rather , it was the inefficient and orgiastic way the Russians went about it . After all , there was a prescribed way for Nazis to commit murder . Fegelein's motives in squealing on one of Himmler's favorite ...
... murdered during the war . Rather , it was the inefficient and orgiastic way the Russians went about it . After all , there was a prescribed way for Nazis to commit murder . Fegelein's motives in squealing on one of Himmler's favorite ...
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