Poles suffer under the Nazis
5th December 1942: Germans step up persecution of Polish civilians as hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are deported to work as slave labourers
Quite apart from the Nazi-organised mass murder of the Jews in Poland, the ordinary Polish citizen was subjected to widespread casual persecution which often proved fatal. Poland was erased from the map, the western part absorbed in 'Gr…
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