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Rossoliński-Liebe sees "genocide", in this context, as a word that is sometimes used in political attacks on Ukraine. [221] However, historian Grzegorz Motyka, an expert on Polish-Ukrainian issues, argued in 2021 that "although the anti-Polish action was an ethnic cleansing, it also meets the definition of genocide". [222]
Olszański notes that in pre-war Poland, a Ukrainian nationalist movement could develop relatively freely even in the most radical forms, including the use of terror, and that the Polish state wasn't able to solve the problems concerning coexistence of Poles and Ukrainians, which resulted in popularization of nationalist and communist movements ...
The Nazi plans also called for Poland's 3.3 million Jews to be exterminated; the non-Jewish majority's extermination was planned for the long term and initiated through the mass murder of its political, religious, and intellectual elites at first, which was meant to make the formation of any organized top-down resistance more difficult. Further ...
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
Former and present members of the Polish Socialist Party and other non-communist Polish political parties. All prisoners of war from the Polish-Soviet war remaining in the Soviet Union. Members of the Polish Military Organisation listed in the special list. All "clerical elements" having, or having had, some kind of connection with Poland.
Polish genocide may refer to: Massacres and religious segregation of Poles in Russian Empire after 1863 Uprising; Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia; Nazi crimes against the Polish nation; Polish Operation of the NKVD; Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)
Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, [3] along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, [4] included the genocide of millions of Polish people, especially the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles.
Post box during German occupation in Poznań Old Market Square (Stary Rynek) in Poznań renamed Adolf Hitler Platz "Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf proclaimed, language-exclusive Germanisation does not equate to total Germanisation, an alien nation, which expresses its thought in non-German form, degrades the greatness and honour of the German nation.