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Nazi Crimes Against Ethnic Poles

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Events
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Polish Jews
Operation Reinhard
Jewish
Polish
ethnic Poles
Ukrainians
Belarusians
Poland
Nazi
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Eastern Europe
Germany
Lebensraum
Reinhard Heydrich
Wilhelm Keitel
intelligentsia
Soviet Union
Luftwaffe
terror bombing
bombing of Frampol
Wielu?
POWs
Einsatzgruppen
German invasion of Poland
Intelligenzaktion
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
Operation Tannenberg
Generalplan Ost
upper class
Intelligenzaktion Pommern
Pomeranian Voivodeship
German AB-Aktion operation in Poland
AB-Aktion
massacre of Lwów professors
Palmiry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wsaw-exec.jpg
Bydgoszcz
Bloody Sunday
paramilitary units
Volksdeutsche
large-scale punitive operations
cultural genocide
Heinrich Himmler
Secret Teaching
Pripet Marshes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wysiedlanie-Zamojszczyzna.jpg
Expulsion of Poles
Zamo?? Region
Expulsion of Poles by Germany
World War II evacuation and expulsion
more than one million Poles were expelled
Reich
Hitler Youth
League of German Girls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lapanka_zoliborz_warszawa_Polska_1941.jpg
?apanka
Nazi concentration camps
Mauthausen-Gusen
Auschwitz
Sachsenhausen
Gross-Rosen
Neuengamme
Dachau
Ravensbrück
Stutthof
Gda?sk
Majdanek
Lublin
Potulice concentration camp
Warsaw concentration camp
Warsaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auschwitz-2.jpg
Auschwitz I
Auschwitz
Soviet POWs
Zyklon-B
gassing
Franciszek Piper
human experimentation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egzekucja-lodz.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WWII_Krakow_-_04.jpg
Krakow
Non-Jewish
Pawiak
Gestapo
Warsaw Ghetto
Action T4
psychiatric
Kocborowo
Owi?ska
Pozna?
Kochanówek
?ód?
extermination camps
gas vans
SS and Police Leader
Wilhelm Koppe
tuberculosis
Chelmno extermination camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C5%81apanka.jpg
racial defilement
Germanization
Reichsgau Wartheland
Polish
Kashubians
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
Deutsche Volksliste
kidnapped by the Nazis
Germanized
Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WestminsterAbbey-Martyrs.jpg
Maximilian Kolbe
Westminster Abbey
General Government
Pomerania
Wroc?aw
Che?mno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polish_civilians_murdered_by_German-SS-troops_in_Warsaw_Uprising_Warsaw_August_1944.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PL_pomnik_rzez_woli.jpg
Wola massacre
took place in Wola district
Sicherheitspoliz i
Heinz Reinefarth
Dirlewanger
?ródmie?cie
Stare Miasto
Marymont
Ochota
an orgy of civilian killings, rape and looting
collaborators
RONA
Czerniaków
Powi?le
Mokotów
Polish resistance
was systematically demolished
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
extradition
[39]
Kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Germanization
Germanize
Aryan
forced labor
extermination camps
concentration camps
grade schools
SS
Gauleiters
German-occupied France
Hitler's Table Talk
French
boarding schools
petit-bourgeois
ruling class
Martin Bormann
noting
Zamo?? County
Zwierzyniec
Zamo??
cattle wagons
livestock
Garwolin
Mrozów
Sobolew
?osice
Che?m
Gdynia
Lidice
foster parents
Germanisation
Auschwitz
Treblinka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Litzmannstadt_Ghetto_plan.svg
Litzmannstadt Ghetto
Lebensborn
the skull shape
Polonized
Hans Frank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Czeslawa-Kwoka2.jpg
Czes?awa Kwoka
Auschwitz concentration camp
phenol
gas chambers
Lubliniec
Upper Silesia
euthanasia
Cieszyn
psychoactive
barbiturate
Luminal
Heu-Aktion
Interior Minister
Obergruppenfuehrer
Gottlob Berger
Untermensch
Mit Schwert und Wiege
German 9th Army
Third Reich
Belarus
Wehrmacht
Waffen-SS
Ulrich Greifelt
RuSHA Trial
Nuremberg Trials
genocide
Women and children walk past Krema III gas chamber.
Inside of the women's block at Birkenau
Eduard Wirths -SS Doctor
Auschwitz SS doctor
Horst Schuman
Carl Clauberg
Home Army
German and Soviet zones of occupation
anti-fascist
resistance movement
Eastern Front
military intelligence
Jewish
the Holocaust
Allied
Polish Underground State
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warsaw_Uprising_by_Deczkowki_-_Kolegium_A_-15861.jpg
Kolegium "A"
Kedyw
Wola
Warsaw Uprising
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:J%C4%99drusie_3.jpg
Kielce
J?drusie
Polish government in exile
Union for Armed Combat
communists
far-right
Polish Secret State
People's Army
Polish Workers' Party
fall of France
Polish Army in France
Polish resistance in France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Witold_Pilecki_1.JPG
Witold Pilecki
TAP
Jan W?odarkiewicz
Secret Polish Army
Siedlce
Radom
machine guns
anti-tank rifles
Union for Armed Struggle
Armia Krajowa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henryk_Dobrza%C5%84ski.jpg
Henryk Dobrza?ski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubal3.png
guerrilla
Henryk Dobrza?ski "Hubal"
battalion
Huciska
Sza?asy
SS
Panzer
Auschwitz concentration camp
Zwi?zek Organizacji Wojskowej
Podolian
Czortków
Czortków Uprising
Red Army
Aleksander Kami?ski
Wawer
Szare Szeregi
Polish Scouting Association
minor sabotage
graffiti
Wawer massacre
Kotwica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gott_mit_uns_-_polish_resistance_poster,_German-occupied_Poland,_1943.jpg
Operation N
Bureau of Information and Propaganda
Tadeusz ?enczykowski
sabotage
subversion
black-propaganda
Holocaust
Auschwitz-Birkenau
collaborator
Igo Sym
Stefan Jaracz
Leon Schiller
Mieczys?aw S?owikowski
Agency Africa
Gwido Langer
Maksymilian Ci??ki
Operation Torch
Italian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zdzis%C5%82aw_de_Ville.jpg
Polish version
M1918 BAR
Eugeniusz Bendera
Kazimierz Piechowski
Stanis?aw Gustaw Jaster
Józef Lempart
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Rudolf Hoss
Steyr
?egota
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz
Catholic
Irena Sendler
Jewish
Jan Karski
PPS
SN
SP
SL
Jewish Bund
Poalei Zion
Anthony Eden
Zamo?? Uprising
Bataliony Ch?opskie
expulsion of Poles
Nazi
mass murder
colonization
Operation Wieniec
occupied Poland
edit
Polish Home Army Intelligence
V-2
War Cabinet
Defence Committee (Operations)
Operation Hydra bombing
Peenemünde
Operation Crossbow
Operation Arsenal
Polish Underground
Jan Bytnar "Rudy"
Arthur Koestler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Felix Frankfurter
Cordell Hull
William Joseph Donovan
Stephen Wise
Samuel Stritch
Hollywood
Jews
Warsaw ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto Rising
National Security Corps
Henryk Iwa?ski
ghetto
?ZW
Kapitan
Józef Pszenny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:V-2_Bug.jpg
AK
Bug River
Operation Belt
Operation Heads
assassinations
Special Courts
Franz Bürkl
Operation Bürkl
public execution
Operation Most III
V-2 rocket
Brindisi
Royal Air Force
Douglas Dakota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AK-soldiers_Parasol_Regiment_Warsaw_Uprising_1944.jpg
Batalion Zo?ka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warsaw_Uprising_-_Captured_SdKfz_251_(1944).jpg
SdKfz 251
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
Agat
Franz Kutschera
Operation Kutschera
Battle of Murowana Oszmianka
Home Army
Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force
Generalbezirk Litauen
Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze
Battle of Osuchy
Operation Tempest
Operation Ostra Brama
3rd Belorussian Front
NKVD
Lwów Uprising
Polish Home Army
Lwów
Gulags
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
Mauthausen
staged trial
Moscow
Trial of the Sixteen
Government Delegate
Council of National Unity
C-i-C
Ivan Serov
Joseph Stalin
Pruszków
Leopold Okulicki
Jan Stanis?aw Jankowski
Kazimierz Pu?ak
collaboration
increasing conflicts between Polish and Soviet partisans
Cursed soldiers
anti-communist resistance in Poland
Józef Franczak
ZOMO
Bohemia
Narodowe Si?y Zbrojne
concentration camp
Holiszowo
Edward Wasilewski
attacked a NKVD camp located in Rembertów
deporting to Siberia
pro-independence Polish resistance
Raids on communist prisons in Poland (1944–1946)
Kury?ówka
Battle of Kury?ówka
National Military Alliance
Augustów chase 1945
SMERSH
UB
LWP
former Armia Krajowa soldiers
Suwa?ki
Augustów
Lithuania
anticommunist
internment camps
Kolbuszowa
harcmistrz
resistance
Second World War
Kamienie na szaniec
Barbara Wachowicz
Rudy, Alek, Zo?ka
Nazis
Grupy Szturmowe
Arsenal action
interrogation
Rottenführer
Ewald Lange
Obersturmführer
Herbert Schultz
S?awomir Maciej Bittner
Eugeniusz Kecher
Jerzy Zapadko
[ka??imj?? pj??x?fsk?i]
Rajkowy
Boy Scout
Second Polish Republic
Polish Home Army
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Rudolf Höss
Tczew
Vistula
Polish Boy Scouts
Selbstschutz
free Polish Army
Baligrod
Sanok
Montelupich Prison
Kraków
Wi?nicz
Occupied Poland
Tarnów
Edward Galinski
Kapo
Otto Küsel
Gerhard Arno Palitzsch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MHV_Steyr_220_1937_01.jpg
Invasion of Poland
Wadowice
Ukrainian
Czortków
Ukraine
Arbeit Macht Frei
a report
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaga_PPP.svg
anti-Polish sentiment
Gda?sk University of Technology
Order of the White Eagle
Maciej P?a?y?ski
Breslau
standing cell
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
Die Ermittlung
Peter Weiss
http://www.polandww2.com/images/stories/Warsaw_Uprising_1944/uprising2.jpg
http://polishgreatness.com/thepolishresistancephotogallery.html
Igo Sym
http://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/3512527790/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/3638553343/
life-size bronze monument 
Armia Krajowa
Radomsko County
KEDYW
Virituti Militari
Polish secret police 
arrest of the 16 AK leaders, and their trial in Moscow
Piotrków Trybunalski
Wielu?
Cz?stochowa
Sieradz
?ask
Zawiercie
W?oszczowa
ytom
Gliwice
Katowice
Ko?le
Pszczyna
Rybnik
Soviet NKVD
 Read more about Polish secret police, the UB, torture methods here
Lech Aleksander Kaczynski
2 March 
1901
Praszka
23 April 
1989
Washington, DC
politician
lawyer
journalist
Polish Underground State
Government Delegate to the country
Member of Parliament Legislative
the PSL
Czestochowa
grammar school
the defense of Lviv
Polish-Bolshevik War
Third Silesian Uprising
the Cross of Valor and the Silesian Ribbon of Merit
Virtuti Militari
S?upcy
Pyzdrach
law
the University of Poznan
Attorney General
Poznan
Warsaw
PSL, "Liberation"
Peasant Party
Centrolew
Krakow
SL
Bialystok
September campaign
57 Infantry Regiment
Soviet aggression on Poland September 17, 1939
the Red Army
the Germans 
in Warsaw
the ZWZ
AK
Peasant Party "Roch"
Sophie
Dawn
the Political Coordinating Committee
the Directorate of Civil Resistance
leadership of the Underground Struggle
the Warsaw Uprising
Delegation of the Polish Government in Exile
NKVD, 
Jan Stanislaw Jankowski
the Polish Government Delegate to the country
of the Council of National Unity
of the Provisional Government of National Unity
Polish Peasant Party
of communist
Legislative Sejm
of Warsaw
of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Zofia
Sweden
USA
ACEN
the Polish Institute of Science in America
PEN Club
PRL