Displaying: 1 25 of 26 matches for “poland”
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1. Deceiving the Public: The Invasion of Poland
Deceiving the Public: The Invasion of Poland Deceiving the Public: The Invasion of Poland Deceiving ... the Public The Invasion of Poland Nazi propaganda stories alleged Polish aggression against Germany
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2. Mobilizing Police in a “Racial War”
“Racial War” After the 1939 invasion of Poland, Nazi authorities sent German police to maintain ... close range in occupied Poland. The unit executed these innocent civilians as revenge for an attack by ... Poland to view the region’s Polish and Jewish populations as a “racial threat ... supposedly “inferior” people in occupied Poland. Police officers watching Police leader Arrested
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3. Longstanding Bonds
The two families became trusted friends. When German forces invaded Poland in 1939, they began ... day.” German Invasion of Poland German Administration of Poland
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4. Her Sister's Needlepoint
Poland, took this linen from Marsha’s home after members of her family were shot nearby. After the ... non-Jewish people profited from the deportation and murder of Jewish populations in Poland. Often
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5. Oral History: Stefan Kucharek
Stefan Kucharek I just brought the cars and the Jews were unloaded. Growing up in Poland, Stefan ... Małkinia. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Stefan began working for the local railroad
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6. Mixed Motivations
Poland—convinced him to help hide the families in the crawl space. Whatever Valentin’s ... always] wanted a Poland without Jews, but not like this.” Trap Door to a Hiding Place Children
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7. World War II
World War II On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France declared
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8. Watching Neighbors
sent to Auschwitz or another killing center in Poland. Few survived. German authorities and their
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9. Manufacturing Death
at several locations in Nazi Germany and occupied Poland. Hundreds of thousands of victims were
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10. Could the Allies Have Stopped the Killing?
that time, the Germans had opened six killing centers in Nazi-occupied Poland and already had murdered
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11. Stigmatizing the Enemy: Jewish Badges
stigmatize Jews as being alien and foreign. In 1939, German officials ordered all Jews in occupied Poland to
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12. In Plain Sight
in occupied Poland. Few survived. Neighbors watching Gestapo officials Jewish men and women
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13. A Steady Job—With “Benefits”
additional income at a time of war and scarcity. German Administration of Poland Warsaw Ghetto Local (Polish
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14. Oral History: Henry Kanner
ghetto of Krákow, Poland, 14-year-old Henry Kanner escaped into the countryside. He was soon
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15. From Friend to Outcast
ghetto in occupied Poland in 1941. They did not survive. Kristallnacht Education in the Third Reich
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16. Defying Nazi Censorship
troops invaded Poland, the Nazi state instituted a new law prohibiting Germans from listening to foreign
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17. Deception and Mass Murder
the SS killing centers in German-occupied Poland or on the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied
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18. Choices Yield Deadly Consequences
devastating impact on Jewish families. By 1941, German authorities in Poland had already forced Cypora
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19. Oral History: Jana Malish
town of Narol, Poland. Her mother was soon killed in a pogrom in nearby Lwów (today Lviv
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20. Closer Than Blood
and deporting Jewish people in her town of Żółkiew, Poland. Together with two other families
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21. Brothers in Arms
leaders sent German police officers to expel Polish and Jewish people from parts of Poland annexed by
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22. For “Our Little Ones”
deported to camps and killing centers in occupied Poland. Responding to parents’ pleas for help
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23. Oral History: Jack Pariser
occupied Poland, their helpers feared they would be discovered. The punishment for hiding Jews was death
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24. Pressure to Act
dire situation in occupied Poland. Karski later recalled that FDR promised the Allies “shall win the
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25. A Crime Of Opportunity?
rounding up Hungarian Jewish people, deporting them to the Auschwitz killing center in occupied Poland. By