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In the Shadow of Auschwitz: German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939 1945
The Nazi invasion of Poland was the first step in an unremittingly brutal occupation, one most infamously represented by the network of death camps constructed on Polish soil. The systematic murder of Jews in the camps has understandably been the focus of much historical attention. Less well-remembered today is the fate of millions of non-Jewish Polish civilians, whowhen they were not expelled from their homeland or forced into slave laborwere murdered in vast numbers both within and outside of the camps. Drawing on both German and Polish sources, Read more