Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two [Paperback]

Shmuel Krakowski (Author), Israel Gutman (Author)

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Text: English, Hebrew (translation) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Unites States Holocaust (September 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896040569
• ISBN-13: 978-0896040564
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,405,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book is biased, May 19, 2007

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W. Paul Gessner (Arvada, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two (Hardcover)

Although it is certainly true that Jews were in much worse situation than Poles in German occupied Poland during WW II, in Hitler's plans both ethnic groups were to be in long run exterminated. During WW II Poles were executed on a daily basis, frequent round ups were taking place, and Poles captured that way were sent in thousands to labor camps and concentration camps.
Although millions of Jews lost their lives in concentration camps, millions others killed there were not Jews, but other ethnic groups (approx. 50 % were Jews, and other 50 % other ethnic groups). This book stresses the horrible fate of Jews during years of Holocaust, but does not provide with true facts regarging fate of Poles in German occupied Poland during WW II.

11 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does Not Tell the Full Story of What Took Place, December 8, 1999

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This review is from: Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two (Paperback)

As part of their argument, the authors deny that Polish gentiles were ever slated for total extermination by the Nazis. This is contrary to historical fact. The Germans did plan to kill most of the Slavic peoples--not by mass gassings and shootings but by slower, more indirect methods such as forced sterilization, overwork, etc.