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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.
In response, Wilson writes that he was reminded of Roy Campbell's mockery of similar ideas among the British intelligentsia of the 1930s in the poem The Flowering Rifle. In the poem, Campbell vowed to "flaunt Truth: Before the senile owl-roosts of our youth Whom monkeys' glands seem powerless to restore, As Birth Control was profitless before,
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) was an English writer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Although politically liberal, he wrote the book Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, which influenced Blavatsky, and has been rumored to have been a precursor a secret Vril Society whose ideas were supposedly adopted by the SS.
"The Future of the Intelligentsia" (1905) My Political Ideas (1937) The Reign of Quantity (1945) The Opium of the Intellectuals (1955) Violence and the Sacred (1972) The Camp of the Saints (1973) The Tyranny of Guilt (2006) The French Suicide (2014) Submission (2015)
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.
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.