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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.
Through its title, "Ovid in the Third Reich" transposes the ancient Roman poet Ovid to Nazi Germany. [2] The poem is introduced with a Latin quotation from Ovid's Amores 3.14: "non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare, / solaque famosam culpa professa facit" (transl. she who is able to deny having sinned does not sin, / only confessed guilt makes a woman renowned).
The extermination action was most deadly in the territories annexed to the Reich (Pomerania, Greater Poland, Upper Silesia). [3] In the first months of the occupation, mass reprisals against the Polish intelligentsia also took place in the territory of the so-called General Government.
This is a list of people whose ideas became part of Nazi ideology.The ideas, writings, and speeches of these thinkers were incorporated into what became Nazism, including antisemitism, German Idealism, eugenics, racial hygiene, the concept of the master race, and Lebensraum.
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.
A US Navy chaplain reads an excerpt of Niemöller's poem during a Holocaust Days of Remembrance observance service in Pearl Harbor; 27 April 2009. At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the quotation is on display, and the museum website has a discussion of the history of the quotation.
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 ...
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.