The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939–41

The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939–41
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    • In Poland, the Nazis had more time than in any other occupied country to implement their policies against people they classified as "racially inferior.

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    The task of implementing Hitler's plan fell to Hans Frank, a year-old lawyer, Nazi Party member and brutal champion of the Nazis' vision of racial purity. Frank was named "Governor-General" of a large chunk of Poland, an area of about 95, square kilometers 36,sq mi , with approximately 10 million inhabitants. This was the western part of Poland that had been annexed by the German Reich, while the eastern half of the country was occupied by the Red Army in accordance with the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

    Frank was unashamedly proud of his ruthless regime, which contrasted with the comparatively lenient system of rule in the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia," as the Nazis called the majority ethnic-Czech region they had occupied. German soldiers committed war crimes in Poland from the very outset. One soldier in the 41st infantry division noted, "Polish civilians and soldiers are dragged out everywhere. When we finish our operation, the entire village is on fire. Nobody is left alive, also all the dogs were shot. Wehrmacht soldiers without battle experience thought they saw snipers everywhere, and ended up firing at anything that moved -- often their own comrades.

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    And if Polish soldiers merely shot at them, the Germans took revenge by setting entire villages ablaze or taking hostages and executing them. Following a gun battle by Ciepielow, Colonel Walter Wessel of the 29th motorized infantry division had captured Polish soldiers stripped of their uniform jackets and then shot as partisans. Although Jews weren't persecuted systematically during the "Polish campaign," the anti-Semitism of the German troops surfaced time and again.

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    The war diary of one machine gun battalion noted, "All the male inhabitants are standing under guard in a large square. The only exceptions are the Jews, who are not standing, but have been made to kneel and pray constantly.

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    On the very day the last Polish soldiers gave themselves up, Hitler gave a speech to the German parliament, the Reichstag, promising to "reorganize the ethnographic conditions" in Europe. Himmler had his staff draw up an Eastern General Plan, a blueprint for the German colonization of all areas up to the Urals.

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    After all, as Joseph Goebbels claimed, eastern Europe had always been Germany's "destiny. He wanted the annexed parts of western Poland to be "depolonized" and "germanized" as quickly as possible.

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    My sister declined the kind offer of marriage, which I thought was very selfish of her. One woman in our group was seized from a hospital bed with her newborn baby. They were just trying to get rid of a misdirected transport of inferior product. Immediately after the entry of Soviet troops extensive arrests were carried out embracing Polish State officials, judges, State prosecutors as well as members of the police force of all ranks. Clothes, shoes, underwear have become an unattainable luxury, ironware a precious and uncommon thing. When M.

    To this end, some eight million Jews and Poles were to be moved into the General Government, the area of Poland under Nazi military control. Welcome sign in sign up.

    The Nazi foreign minister had lost his patience with the Poles. For the Nazis, the Soviet Union was the main enemy, and its agriculture and oil the prize. Why should Poland trade Baltic territories for the chance to fight for a Black Sea coastline?

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    Why would German troops, once they entered Poland, ever leave? The Polish foreign minister declared that Poland would concede no territory and would fight to preserve its sovereignty. France and Britain, having seen Germany annex Austria and destroy Czechoslovakia, now offered guarantees to Poland, and sought to bring the Soviet Union into an alliance.

    Josef Stalin doubted that the British or the French would be much use if Germany attacked, and he knew that Poland would not permit Soviet troops to cross Polish territory to attack Germany. Stalin waited for a better offer, and got one—from Hitler.