The price of loyalty towards the Second Polish Republic: The dispossession of the Habsburgs of Żywiec by the National Socialist Germany, 1939–1944 Cover Image

Cena lojalnoÊci wobec II Rzeczypospolitej.Wywłaszczenie Habsburgów zywieckich przez narodowosocjalistyczne Niemcy 1939–1944
The price of loyalty towards the Second Polish Republic: The dispossession of the Habsburgs of Żywiec by the National Socialist Germany, 1939–1944

Author(s): Mirosław Sikora
Subject(s): History
Published by: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
Keywords: price of loyalty; Second Polish Republic; dispossession; Habsburg; National Socialist Germany;1939–1944

Summary/Abstract: In the autumn of 1939, the National Socialist Germany occupying Poland, started imposing a Germanisation policies in the newly incorporated into the Third Reich territories of the Second Polish Republic. The most effective methods of removing Polish identity – apart from elimination of the leadership – were Polish people displacement and dispossession.First months of the occupation were aimed at a gathering information about people living in areas annexed by the Nazi Germany.

  • Issue Year: 17/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 231-246
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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