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    Polish decrees, Polish directives or decrees on Poles (German: Polen-Erlasse, Polenerlasse) were the decrees of the Nazi Germany government announced on...
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    application decrees. Presidential decrees are generally nominations or exceptional measures where the law mandates a presidential decree, such as the...
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    "related blood" to Germans. This position later changed with the so-called Polish decrees of 8 March 1940, and it was made explicit in the secret order of the...
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    the Sejm and convening its sessions, issuing decrees during periods between Sejm sessions (the decrees had to be later accepted by the Sejm), initiating...
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    Zofia Nalkowska Nazi crime Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany Polish decrees Polish resistance movement in World War II Polish Underground State Porajmos...
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    After the Polish decrees became enforced, sexual relations between Germans and Poles were forbidden as Rassenschande (race defilement), a Polish women caught...
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    On 8 March 1940, the Nazi German government issued the Polish decrees with regard to the Polish forced laborer workers in Germany, stating that any Pole...
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    Lebensraum (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    and regulated the working and living conditions of Polish laborers (Zivilarbeiter). The Polish decrees also established that any Pole "who has sexual relations...
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    used for entry into Polish territory. With this decree the Polish Government obviously intend to make it impossible for numerous Polish Jews living abroad...
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    country. In journalism and political history, the term "Beneš decrees" refers to the decrees of the president and the ordinances of the Slovak National Council...
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    The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (Polish: I Rzeczpospolita), was a federative real...
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    The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist...
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    Announced on 8 March 1940 was the Polish decrees which were used as a legal basis for foreign labourers in Germany. The decrees required Poles to wear identifying...
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    residents of occupied Poland were conscripted on the basis of the so-called Polish decrees (Polenerlasse), and were subject to discriminatory regulation. Compared...
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    Decree 770 was a decree of the communist government of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, signed in 1967. It restricted abortion in Romania and contraception...
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    Germany Zivilarbeiter forced laborers in the Third Reich Polenlager Polish decrees Notes Ulrich Herbert (16 March 1999), The Army of Millions of the Modern...
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    Forced labour under German rule during World War II (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    from the General Government territory. They were regulated by strict Polish decrees: they received much lower wages and could not use conveniences such...
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  • Bierut Decrees German: Bierut-Dekrete is a term used in German historiography referring to a series of decrees, laws and regulations enacted by the Provisional...
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    The Polish hussars (/həˈzɑːrs/; Polish: husaria [xuˈsarja]), alternatively known as the winged hussars, were an elite heavy cavalry formation active in...
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    occupied Polish territories. The jurisdiction and powers of the Tribunal were defined in decrees of 22 January and 17 October 1946 and a decree of 11 April...
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    Sejm (redirect from Polish Diet)
    session, the State Council had the power to issue decrees that had the force of law. However, those decrees had to be approved by the Sejm at its next session...
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    The Central Committee of Polish Jews also referred to as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and abbreviated CKŻP, (Polish: Centralny Komitet Żydów...
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  • of the Capital of Warsaw also translated as the Decree on Ownership and Use of Land in Warsaw (Polish: Dekret o własności i użytkowaniu gruntów na obszarze...
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    Deutsche apartheid policy in occupied Poland and the so-called Polish decrees concerning the Polish labourers in Germany The widespread use of forced/unfree...
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    God, Honour, Fatherland (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    confirmed as such by several Polish legal decrees. The phrase "Honour and Fatherland" can be traced to the slogans and banners of Polish revolutionaries of the...
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    the racist and repressive Polish decrees, which regulated the working and living conditions of Polish slave workers. Polish slave workers were obliged...
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    P (Nazi symbol) (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    seen as a badge of shame. The design was introduced in the Polish decrees (laws concerning Polish workers in Germany) on 8 March 1940. The symbol was a diamond...
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    power to pass decrees was limited by the requirement that the Prime Minister and the appropriate other Minister had to verify his decrees with their signatures...
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    Racial policy of Nazi Germany (category Anti-Polish sentiment in Europe)
    Germany. The Nazis issued the Polish decrees on 8 March 1940 which regulated the working and living conditions of Polish laborers (Zivilarbeiter) used...
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    commander-in-chief of the Polish Army, and the General Inspector of the Armed Forces. He also had the authority to issue decrees and veto legislation passed...
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