Poland under German occupation 1939-1945

Germans selected Poland as the only country where aiding a Jew, be it only to give him a slice of bread, was immediately punished by death. Failure to inform on a neighbor hiding Jews meant deportation to a GERMAN NAZI Concentration and Extermination Camp(1939-1945) AUSCHWITZ, BUCHENWALD, DACHAU, BERGEN BELSEN, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, MAUTHAUSEN, Neuengamme, GROSS-ROSEN, SZUCHA, PAWIAK, PALMIRY.

Waclaw Bielawski, from the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation, issued a list of 1,181 names of Poles who had been killed for helping Jews during World War II. In Western Europe the automatic death sentence for help rendered to Jews did not exist and applying it to a whole family or neighbors was unthinkable. The reign of terror that organized in German-occupied Poland(1939-1945) was completely isolated, and unimaginable in the West Europe and all the world.

ZEGOTA-Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland(1939-1945). Zegota(in Polish:Żegota) was the cryptonym for the clandestine underground organization in German-Nazi- occupied Poland(1939-1945) that provide assistance to the Jewish people. ZEGOTA was the only such organization in German-occupied EUROPE during the Holocaust.

IRENA SENDLEROWA (de domo: IRENA KRZYŻANOWSKA) (also IRENA SENDLER) played a leading role in the rescue and hiding of Jewish children. IRENA SENDLEROWA with Żegota saved 2500 Jewish Children during the German terror in Holocaust. LIFE IN A JAR.

Righteous Among the Nations in Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum:
POLAND - 6066 - more than from any other German Nazi-occupied country
Total Persons - 22,211

POLAND'S HOLOCAUST: 6 MILLION CITIZENS DEAD
(3 MILLION CHRISTIANS and 3 MILLION JEWS)
Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews.
Sheltering or helping Jews in German-occupied Poland posed a serious danger to anyone doing it. Poland was the only country where the German-Nazis ordered a death penalty not only for the persons directly aiding them but even for the neighbors living nearby.

Poland had been conquered by Nazi Germany during 1939 Defensive War, and its government went into exile in London; no Polish puppet state collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Auschwitz German Camp- 1940-1945 became the main concentration camp for Poles after the arrival there on June 14, 1940, of 728 men transported from an overcrowded prison at Tarnow. By March 1941, 10,900 prisoners were registered at the camp, most of them Poles. In September 1941, 200 ill prisoners, most of them Poles, along with 650 Soviet prisoners of war, were killed in the first gassing experiments at Auschwitz. Beginning in 1942, Auschwitz's prisoner population became much more diverse, as Jews and other "enemies of the state" from all over German-occupied Europe were deported to the camp.
The Polish scholar Franciszek Piper, the chief historian of Auschwitz, estimates that 140,000 to 150,000 Poles were brought to that camp between 1940 and 1945, and that 70,000 to 75,000 died there as victims of executions, of cruel medical experiments, and of starvation and disease. Some 100,000 Poles were deported to Majdanek, and tens of thousands of them died there. An estimated 20,000 Poles died at Sachsenhausen, 20,000 at Gross-Rosen, 30,000 at Mauthausen, 17,000 at Neuengamme, 10,000 at Dachau, and 17,000 at Ravensbrueck. In addition, victims in the tens of thousands were executed or died in the thousands of other camps--including special children's camps such as Lodz and its subcamp, Dzierzazn--and in prisons and other places of detention within and outside German-occupied Poland 1939-1945.

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[amabeline]

Poland's Holokaust.

Musimy przypominać nasze polskie ofiary.

Mój dziadek, polski nauczyciel zginął w KL Auschwitz, nr obozowy 11193.

[ferdovit]

Before 2 world war Nazi Germany spread propaganda that Poles makes massacres of German miniority in Poland. Poland in this thime has different borders but Germans said that Poland occupied German teritory. In German opinion all Poland is the German land. They sing the same melody from 1000 years.

[licicaviki]

@flyabroom In 1939 when Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland our "All -lies" sit on fat asses in safe, glorious and effective SITZKRIEG strategy... 200 000 Polish soldiers escape via Hungary and Romania to France and England get job of "democracy defenders" and later our "All-lies" sold east Europe to Stalin... and on the end They have decade of fun with "Polish jokes" and They called Poles "the worst antisemites on whole world"... It was so f.... cool...

[flyabroom]

@someoneinusa

During this time millions of REAL HEROES were being murdered, deported, worked to death or imprisoned. Where were Poland's pre-war allies, where was the world press, where was Hollywood - I ask? There are no Hollywood movies about the suffering of the Polish Nation or its incredibly heroic stance - NONE! Looks like we all lost a "moral compass" since 1939, and have yet to regain it!

[flyabroom]

@someoneinusa. Truth about Poland that was purposefully hidden from the Western public for the past 70-years by "free western media." Between 1939 and 1956Poland was a killing arena of the Poles by both, Germans and Bolsheviks (yes, that late by the Bolsheviks) . It was also the site of the stiffest and longest resistance by anyone to Nazism and Communism (until 1956) - the two totalitarian and most deadly systems in the history of mankind.

[11luke1]

fuck the Germans, they were lucky the Russians didn't catch all of Germany thanks to us Americans. The Russians had a better plan to deal with the Nazi's then we did.

[licicaviki]

Germans try to eliminate all Slavs on area of Poland like They do the same in medieval time on areas of Polabian Slavs in east Germany. To this day survived only 60 000 Sorbians in Lusatia.

[sousique]

@amabeline czy one są żydowskie te ręce czy gojowskie to nie ważne. Ważne że nie są pro polskie.

[DizzyMarci]

Poland NEVER capitulated....I repeat, NEVER capitulated.

[kamilr95]

Bardzo dobre. My pomagaliśmy żydom, aby nie zginęli zagazowani w obozach zagłady, a oni nas teraz oskarżają, że to my ich zabijaliśmy! Nie ulegajmy antypolskiej żydowskiej propagandzie!

[IanHunedoara8]

Goal of Germans was to ultimately exterminate all Polish identity, then physical existence thru forced sterilization and slave labor