World of Delusions and Disillusions
The National Minorities of Poland During World War II∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11046224 |
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| Authors | Edward D Wynot (Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-196 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905997908407865 |
| OpenAlex | W2073102876 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Perhaps no country in Eastern Europe suffered the human, material, and psychological devastation that Poland experienced during nearly six long years of war and occupation. Caught initially between Soviet Communism and German Nazism, and eventually falling completely under the yoke of the latter, the country became the target of ruthless attempts to impose these totalitarian systems on the hapless vanquished population. Without dismissing the sufferings of the ethnic Poles, this paper will focus on the fortunes of the key ethnoreligious minority groups in prewar Poland — the Germans, Belorussians, Ukrainians, and Jews. It will attempt to portray not only the relationship between the occupying powers and the individual minorities, but also the relationships among those population segments in the face of a concerted challenge to their very existence
Ancient history · Communism · Economic history · Ethnic group · Face (sociological concept · Falling (accident · First world war · German · German population · Nazism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Yoke (aeronautics · Demography · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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