Poland's Holocaust : Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947

Piotrowski, Tadeusz

McFarland & Co Inc（2007/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 451 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786429134
• DDC分類 940.531809438

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997.

Full Description

With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East Prussia. The resulting conglomeration of ethnic groups left many substantial minorities wanting independence.

The approach of World War II provided the minorities' leaders a new opportunity in their nationalist movements, and many sided with one or the other of Poland's two enemies--the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany--in hopes of achieving their goals at the expense of Poland and its people. Based on primary and secondary sources in numerous languages (including Polish, German, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian and English), this work examines the roles of the ethnic minorities in the collapse of the Republic and in the atrocities that occurred under the occupying troops. The Polish government's response to mounting ethnic tensions in the prewar era and its conduct of the war effort are also examined.

Contents

Table of Contents

Abbreviations    

Tables and Maps    

Preface    

Introduction    

1 Soviet Terror    

2 Nazi Terror    

3 Jewish Collaboration    

4 Polish Collaboration    

5 Belorussian Collaboration    

6 Lithuanian Collaboration    

7 Ukrainian Collaboration    

Conclusion    

Appendix: Documents    

Notes    

Bibliography    

Index