Article: The Ghetto Uprising and The Battle of Warsaw: 50 Years Ago

Mark Kohan
Polish-American Journal
08-01-1994
The Ghetto Uprising and The Battle of Warsaw.

Before any shots were fired, before any soil was claimed for Germany, Adolph Hitler had coldly calculated his plans for Poland. Trapped between great powers to the East and West, the country was to carved up much like is had been before World War I.

Hitler saw "the new German city of Warsaw" made up of mostly of Reich immigrants and "a labor force of Poles residing in a prison settlement on the opposite bank of the Vistula," according to documents produced at the war-crimes tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946. He planned to rid Poland of its political, military and intellectual leaders, people who would ...

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