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    Gmina Dobrcz is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the...
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    municipalities such as Wieruszów County, Gmina Besko, Gmina Gidle, Gmina Klecko, Gmina Ryczywół, and Gmina Siennica, among others. In and around Bydgoszcz...
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    against Polish prisoners of war Gmina Aleksandrów, Lublin Voivodeship Gmina Besko Gmina Gidle Gmina Kłecko Gmina Ryczywół Gmina Siennica Intelligenzaktion...
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    confine the Jewish population of the town for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation. The ghetto was liquidated in February 1941, when all...
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    Germany "Historia miasta, Miasto i gmina Kalisz Pomorski" (in Polish). Retrieved July 14, 2019. Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen...
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  • Zamość region. Majdan Nowy, situated in Biłgoraj County, Gmina Księżpol (previously part of Gmina Sól until 1954), witnessed its first war crime perpetrated...
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  • can speak of mass terror July – August 1943 – apogee of terror; Ukrainians also assault Polish self-defence forces; spread of terror to Eastern Galician...
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    divisions of Wehrmacht and SS committed numerous massacres and unleashed state-terror indiscriminately against the native populations, in operations labelled...
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    arrests in Toruń, detaining dozens of people as hostages. The occupier's terror also affected other towns in the Toruń County. On September 14, in Czarnowo...
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    the Nazi occupation, 37% of the inhabitants of the gmina of Tułowice died, and such severe terror against the inhabitants of these areas was at least...
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    from the German occupational authorities in Wysokie Mazowieckie, including gmina commissar Otto Erit, agricultural commissar Neuman, gendarmerie post commandant...
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    Madajczyk, Czesław (1965). Hitlerowski terror na wsi polskiej 1939–1945. Zestawienie większych akcji represyjnych [Nazi terror in the Polish countryside 1939–1945...
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    municipalities such as Wieruszów County, Gmina Besko, Gmina Gidle, Gmina Kłecko, Gmina Ryczywół, and Gmina Siennica, among others. Along with civilians...
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    the city was incorporated to the Ukrainian SSR in the atmosphere of NKVD terror as thousands of Jews were ordered to be deported. It became part of the...
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    Drachowo [draˈxɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niechanowo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central...
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    pre-census information leaflets. In summer 1939 the German terror against the Poles even exceeded the terror from the period of the 1920 plebiscite. Poles were...
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    addition, the city is the administrative seat of Słupsk County and the rural Gmina Słupsk, despite belonging to neither, while until 1999 it was the capital...
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    p. 56. Nechama Tec Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror. University Press: Oxford 2013 Polski Słownik Biograficzny, t. XVII, Warszawa...
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    of the German occupation, Pomerania was the region of Poland where Nazi terror took the most brutal form. Polish historians estimate that between September...
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    During the most oppressive phase of the Stalinist period (1948–1953), terror was justified in Poland as necessary to eliminate reactionary subversion...
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    a transfer camp for various German concentration camps. Despite German terror, the Home Army units were active in the area, most notably in the town itself...
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    Prussian plebiscite. The plebiscite was preceded by a campaign of violence and terror by the Germans against the Poles and even against Allied soldiers. The Germans...
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    strike in Trzebiatów in June 1919 resonated widely in Gryfice. Acts of terror, murders, and rapes occurred in surrounding villages. After the suppression...
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    the Nazi Germans was insignificant.[failed verification] However, Nazi terror combined with the inadequacy of food rations, as well as German greed, along...
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    south-central Poland with 21,624 inhabitants (2021). The town is the seat of the Gmina Wieluń and Wieluń County, and is located within the Łódź Voivodeship. Wieluń...
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  • Thumbnail for Sędziejowice, Łódź Voivodeship
    Voivodeship, in central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Sędziejowice. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi)...
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    city was overrun by the Germans on 17 September 1939. In order to inflict terror, five prominent Jews were shot at the town square. Following the signing...
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    Stettin Jews to Belzyce in Lublin area, reservation purpose decline of Jews, terror command of Kurt Engels, shocking insights in life circumstances "The deportations...
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  • structures of the Home Army from the pre-war gminas of Czosnów and Młociny, as well as from the eastern part of the Gmina Zaborów, were part of the VIII District...
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    Jewish population of about 3.5 million for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation. In smaller towns, ghettos often served as staging points...
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