The Polish underground press and the issue of collaboration with the Nazi occupiers, 1939–1944
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22976429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carla Tonini (University of Bologna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-205 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13507480801931119 |
| OpenAlex | W1981151450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The terror, exploitation and demographic restructuring (which included ethnic cleansing, deportation, colonisation and genocide) that the Nazis implemented in Poland had no parallel in Europe. Unlike in Belarus and in Ukraine, where the Nazis sought (and found) collaborators, no Poles were given positions of authority. This policy ruled out any kind of legal collaboration at the political and economic level. The Poles reacted in different ways to the prospect of being subjugated and exterminated: complying with the occupiers or passively and actively resisting them. The Polish elites created a vast network of informal social institutions, including an extensive clandestine press, schools and universities. However, the ease with which the Poles created a split reality, where the occupiers were circumvented and ignored, was not due to specific anthropological qualities of the Poles, but to their experience of foreign occupation in the nineteenth century. It was the combination of these two factors (the hatred and ignorance of the Polish reality and the ability to defy Nazi rule) that led to the failure of the Generalplan Ost in Poland. Hence only one component of the plan was carried out, namely, the mass murder of the Jews.
Deportation · Ethnic Cleansing · Genocide · Hatred · Ignorance · Immigration · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |