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Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two

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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.

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.