Hi,
the previous topic here
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=996198
was closed due to the start of a flame war between members.
PLEASE do not make any political comment on this new topic about "who was wrong and who was right". The killed people were people before being "German" or "Polish".
Facts are that as usual, civilians (from all "nationalities") were the first victims of this war, which like any war is more or less political/racial.
In this new topic, on the suggestion of DouglasDwight, i will do a short review of the German book and the one published by the Allied Nations.
Below you will find pictures of the books from my collection.
As said in the previous topic, the original German title was "Dokumente polnisher Grausamkeit" (Documentation on the Polish cruaulty).
The book has around 460 pages (!), two third of it are reports of the various massacres., then you will find pictures of the victims, reports, newspapers with death notices.
Published in 1940, it was republished in a reduced 300-page book as "Die polnischen Greueltaten an den Volksdeutschen in Polen" (The Polish Atrocities against the German minority in Poland).
This is this second edition which was made available languages.
You will find the English (from which pictures are taken) and French editions (more probably exist).
The German book is giving the sources of the selected material used in it, and that it does not includes other war crimes (against German POW for example).
As for February 1940, around 13,000 German civilians were said to have been killed, and 42,000 are said to be "missing", for a total of near 60,000 civilians.
Those incredibly high numbers of killed civilians should be greatly be minored as it is very well explained on the wikipedia page below :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1939)
Also it is clear that many civilians (Polish or from the German minority) were killed by war operations, not especially by massacres.
See You
Vince
the previous topic here
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=996198
was closed due to the start of a flame war between members.
PLEASE do not make any political comment on this new topic about "who was wrong and who was right". The killed people were people before being "German" or "Polish".
Facts are that as usual, civilians (from all "nationalities") were the first victims of this war, which like any war is more or less political/racial.
In this new topic, on the suggestion of DouglasDwight, i will do a short review of the German book and the one published by the Allied Nations.
Below you will find pictures of the books from my collection.
As said in the previous topic, the original German title was "Dokumente polnisher Grausamkeit" (Documentation on the Polish cruaulty).
The book has around 460 pages (!), two third of it are reports of the various massacres., then you will find pictures of the victims, reports, newspapers with death notices.
Published in 1940, it was republished in a reduced 300-page book as "Die polnischen Greueltaten an den Volksdeutschen in Polen" (The Polish Atrocities against the German minority in Poland).
This is this second edition which was made available languages.
You will find the English (from which pictures are taken) and French editions (more probably exist).
The German book is giving the sources of the selected material used in it, and that it does not includes other war crimes (against German POW for example).
As for February 1940, around 13,000 German civilians were said to have been killed, and 42,000 are said to be "missing", for a total of near 60,000 civilians.
Those incredibly high numbers of killed civilians should be greatly be minored as it is very well explained on the wikipedia page below :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1939)
Also it is clear that many civilians (Polish or from the German minority) were killed by war operations, not especially by massacres.
See You
Vince
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