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The Nazi invasion of Poland was the first step in an unremittingly brutal occupation, one most infamously represented by the network of death camps constructed on Polish soil. The systematic murder of Jews in the camps has understandably been the focus of much historical attention. Less well-remembered today is the fate of millions of non-Jewish Polish civilians, who—when they were not expelled from their homeland or forced into slave labor—were murdered in vast numbers both within and outside of the camps. Drawing on both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz gives a definitive account of the depredations inflicted upon Polish society, tracing the ruthless implementation of a racial ideology that cast ethnic Poles as an inferior race.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The setting of massacres: prehistory, enemy constructs and the order of violence
Chapter 1. Continuities and ruptures: Germans and Poles before 1939
Chapter 2. Occupation as a framework for action: ideology, politics and violence
Part II: 'Polish bands': war, occupation policy and the logic of massacres
Chapter 3. Beyond the border: the war in September 1939
Chapter 4. Initiation and practice: 'Hubal' and the beginnings of counter-partisan operations
Chapter 5. Removal of constraints: fighting partisans through a 'small-scale war' in 1942
Chapter 6. Losing control: escalating crisis and the dynamics of violence in 1943
Chapter 7. Authority amid the death throes: the final phase of German rule, 1944-1945
Chapter 8. Transfer and culmination: the quelling of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944
Part III: Coming to terms with the past after 1945
Chapter 9. Extradition and punishment: Poland, the Allies and German perpetrators
Chapter 10. Prosecution and suppression: massacres and German justice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
