Forgotten Holocaust
Subtitle: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944
Contributors: Norman Davies (Foreword)
Edition: 2nd Rev edition
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780781809016
Subjects: European history: Second World War; The Holocaust; Second World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust; History; History - General History; World War, 1939-1945; History: World; Germany; Military - World War II; Eastern Europe - Poland; Atrocities; Poland; Prisoners and prisons, German
First sentence: When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the Poles became the first people in Europe to experience the Holocaust, for this was the inauguration of the German policies of systematic terror, enslavement, and extermination of civilians on an unprecedented scale.