Poland's Holocaust Ethnic Strife, Collaboration With Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947

The approach of World War II provided Polish minorities? leaders a new opportunity in their nationalist movements, and many sided with one or the other of Poland's two enemies'the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany'in hopes of achieving their goals at the expense of Poland and its people. Based on primary and secondary sources in numerous languages (including Polish, German, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian and English), this work examines the roles of the ethnic minorities in the collapse of the Republic and in the atrocities that occurred under the occupying troops. The Polish government's response to mounting ethnic tensions in the prewar era and its conduct of the war effort are also examined.Piotrowski, Tadeusz is the author of 'Poland's Holocaust Ethnic Strife, Collaboration With Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786429134 and ISBN 0786429135.