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The Intelligenzaktion (German pronunciation: [ɪntɛliˈɡɛnt͡s.akˌt͡sjoːn]), or the Intelligentsia mass shootings [citation needed], was a series of mass murders which was committed against the Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) early in the Second World War (1939–45) by Nazi Germany.
The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; [1] as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers.
Ovid in the Third Reich" is the opening poem of Hill's 1968 collection King Log, published in the United Kingdom by André Deutsch and in the United States by Dufour Editions. [ 7 ] Among the collections of Hill's poems that include "Ovid in the Third Reich" are New and Collected Poems, 1952–1992 , published by Houghton Mifflin in 1994, [ 8 ...
Free-floating intellectuals or free-floating intelligentsia (German: Freischwebende Intelligenz) is a term from the sociology of knowledge that was used by the sociologist and philosopher Karl Mannheim in 1929, but was originally coined by the sociologist Alfred Weber. [1]
Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German poet and playwright, directly aligned with Nazi philosophy, as a member of the officially approved writers’ organisations in the Third Reich.
The Nazis considered the Polish intelligentsia to include not just the country's academics and artists, but its politicians, artists, aristocrats, professionals, clergy, present and former military officers, and generally everyone sufficiently educated or wealthy to have a position of authority, even informally, in Polish society.
On the direct orders from Adolf Hitler, carried out by Reinhard Heydrich's bureau of Referat Tannenberg along with Heinrich Himmler’s established Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), Poles from among intelligentsia and elites were rounded up, [7] and executed without any due process by the SS-Einsatzgruppen in dozens of remote locations such as ...
Boris Borisovich Ryzhy [a] (Russian: Борис Борисович Рыжий; 8 September 1974 – 7 May 2001) was a Russian poet and geologist. [1] Some poems by Ryzhy have been translated into English, Italian, German, Dutch and Serbian.