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Wola massacre. The Wola massacre ( Polish: Rzeź Woli, lit. 'Wola slaughter') was the systematic killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Poles in the Wola neighbourhood of the Polish capital city, Warsaw, by the German Waffen-SS and fellow Axis collaborators in the Azerbaijani Legion, as well as the predominantly-Russian RONA forces, which took ...
- 5–12 August 1944
- Nazi Germany
- 40,000–50,000
Glossary of Nazi Germany. This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated, and other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic.
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Polen heeft 38.282.325 (2020) inwoners. In de laatste 200 jaar zijn vele Polen naar het buitenland vertrokken. In de Verenigde Staten leven ruim 10 miljoen mensen van Poolse afkomst, maar ook Brazilië (2 miljoen) heeft een grote groep Poolse immigranten. Voor Duitsland is het moeilijker aan te geven hoe groot de groep is, omdat grote delen van ...
Polabian Slavs, also known as Elbe Slavs [a] and more broadly as Wends, is a collective term applied to a number of Lechitic ( West Slavic) tribes who lived scattered along the Elbe river in what is today eastern Germany. The approximate territory stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north, the Saale [1] and the Limes Saxoniae [2] in the west ...
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] War of Poland of 1939, [h] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [i] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
- 1 September 1939-6 October 1939 (35 days)
A significant portion of Volksdeutsche in Hungary joined the SS, which was a pattern repeated also in Romania (with 54,000 locals serving in the SS by the end of 1943). The majority of 200,000 Volksdeutsche from the area of Danube who served with the SS were from Hungary. As early as 1942, some 18,000 Hungarian Germans joined the SS.
Polnische Opfer. Nach der Niederlage der polnischen Armee im September 1939 unterdrückten die Deutschen die Polen rücksichtslos. Sie ermordeten Tausende von Zivilisten, führten in großem Umfang Zwangsarbeitsprogramme ein und siedelten Hunderttausende um. Ziel der deutschen NS-Politik war es, die polnische Nation und Kultur zu zerstören und ...
