Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Jan w Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Jan w to the policies of the ruling powers. He provides a highly useful typology of response to occupation, defining collaboration as an active relationship with the occupiers for reasons of self-interest and to the detriment of one's neighbors; resistance as passive and active opposition; and accommodation as compliance falling between the two extremes. He focuses on the ways in which these reactions influenced relations between individuals, between social classes, and between ethnic groups. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies. |
Contents
On the Eve 19141939 | 39 |
The Local Elite and the German Authorities 19391944 | 67 |
The Polish Majority under Nazi Rule 19391944 | 105 |
Ethnic Minorities under Nazi Rule 19391944 | 133 |
The Independentists and Their Enemies 19391947 | 181 |
The Local Elite under Soviet Occupation 19441947 | 237 |
The Polish Majority under Soviet Occupation 19441947 | 265 |
Ethnic Minorities under Soviet Occupation 19441947 | 297 |
Common terms and phrases
accommodation administration Andrzej APLOK appendix April August authorities AZHRL AŻIH Batorz Budzyń camp Chrzanów civilian collaboration cooperation county of Janów county supervisor deported Distrikts Lublin dnia dziejów economic elite ethnic Germans food quota forced labor gminy Holocaust IHPAN independentists institutions Janów County Janów Lubelski Janowie Jerzy Jewish Jews Józef July June killed Kraków Kraśnik Kreishauptmann latach Lubelskiego Lubelszczyźnie M.A. thesis March Marek Jan Chodakiewicz miesiąc military n/a n/a nationalist Nazi Nazi occupation NKVD Nonetheless official okupacji Parish partisans peasants Poland Poles police Polish Communist political Polsce Polski population Populists powiatu powiecie Protokół proxy regime Raport Red Army resistance RGO-PKO September social Sprawozdanie sytuacyjne Sprawozdanie z działalności Stanisław Starosta Starosta Powiatowy Starosty Powiatowego Tadeusz terror Trzydnik Ukrainian Ulanów UMCS underground Urzędów village Volksdeutsche Warsaw Warszawa Warunki Władysław Wydawnictwo Wydawnicza Wykaz Zaklików Zakrzówek Zbrodnie
Popular passages
Page 23 - Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986; New York: Hippocrene Books, 1990), pp.
Page 33 - Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin (eds), From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (New York: Schocken Books, 1983), p.
Page 29 - Some aspects of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Nazi Occupation', Studies in Polish Civilisation, ed. D. Wandycz (New York, 1966), 154-75; Righteous among nations: how Poles helped the Jews, 1939-45, ed. W. Bartoszewski, Z. Lewin (London, 1972); S. Krakowski, The Slaughter of Polish Jewry: a Polish "re-assessment"', Wiener Library Bulletin, cxxi (May 1973), 293-401; Polacy i Zydzi.