Download or read book The German Fifth Column in Poland written by The Polish ministery of information and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Fifth Column in Poland written by Polish Ministry of Information and published by Dale Street Books. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little known fact of history is how the Fifth Column-a minority German population living inside Poland-aided the German invasion in September, 1939. The simple version of history is that Polish forces were outgunned and outmanned by the Wehrmacht. The truth is more complicated. This well-documented, thoroughly researched report by the Polish Ministry of Information in 1940 details the treacheries of Germans on their Polish neighbors. As German troops crossed the Polish border on September 1, Fifth Columnists were ready, marking targets for German pilots, spreading false information to cause panic, spying on Polish troop movements, firing on Polish soldiers, sabotaging Polish facilities, and executing Polish patriots. Most fascinating is how well coordinated the activities were between the Wehrmacht and the Fifth Column, which had been carefully trained and well equipped months before the invasion. Under the very noses of their Polish neighbors, Germans living in Poland had buried stockpiles of fuel and ammunition, concealed their insignias under their regular clothes and even armed their Lutheran church towers as strategic sniper positions. As the German occupation of Poland began its bloody rule of terror and the war spread to other countries, the truth of the Fifth Column was buried under ever more horrible news. Still, it is an important lesson in national security and the possible enemy within, hiding in plain sight and waiting to strike at the right moment.
Download or read book The German Fifth Column in the Second World War written by Louis De Jong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in English in 1956, this book is divided into 3 parts : the first outlines how, after 1933, those outside Germany began to become increasingly afraid of sinister operations on the part of German agents and the partisans of National Socialism. The second part examines the role of the German Fifth column during the war and the third part analyses the role of the groups which were living outside Germany at the time Hitler started his assault.
Download or read book The German Campaign in Poland written by War Department and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth examination of the successful tactics used by the German army and air-force, compiled by the United States War Department to be studied in preparation for meeting the Germans on the battlefield. The author explains how through the proper and effective use of intelligence, combined arms tactics, and fifth column activities the German military was able to secure a massive and overwhelming victory.
Download or read book The German Fifth Column in Poland written by Poland. Centrum informacji i dokumentacji and published by London : Published for the Polish Ministsry of Information by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1941 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Fifth Column 1933 1945 written by Louis Jong and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fifth Column in World War II written by Robert Loeffel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives a Fifth Column to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war.
Download or read book The German Campaign in Poland September 1 to October 5 1939 written by United States. War Department. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Holocaust written by Michael Fleming and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes which took place during the Second World War were prosecuted.
Download or read book Expelling the Germans written by Matthew Frank and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expelling the Germans focuses on how Britain perceived the mass movement of German populations from Poland and Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of British archival material, Matthew Frank examines why the British came to regard the forcible removal of Germans as a necessity, and evaluates the public and official responses in Britain once mass expulsion became a reality in 1945. Central to this study is the concept of 'population transfer': the contemporary idea that awkward minority problems could be solved rationally and constructively by removing the population concerned in an orderly and gradual manner, while avoiding unnecessary human suffering and economic disruption. Dr Frank demonstrates that while most British observers accepted the principle of population transfer, most were also consistently uneasy with the results of putting that principle into practice. This clash of 'principle' with 'practice' reveals much not only about the limitations of Britain's role but also the hierarchy of British priorities in immediate post-war Europe.
Download or read book Orphans Of Versailles written by Richard Blanke and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles. The Polish government now confronted a German minority in a region where power relationships had been the other way around for more than a century. Orphans of Versailles examines the complex psychological and political situation of Germans consigned to Poland, their treatment by the Polish government and society, their diverse strategies for survival, their place in international relations, and the impact of National Socialism. Not a one-sided study of victimization, this book treats the contributions of both the Polish state and the German minority to the conflict that culminated in their mutual destruction. Based largely on research in European archives, it sheds new light on a key aspect of German-Polish relations, one that was long overshadowed by concern over the German revanchist threat and the hostility that subsequently dominated the German-Polish relationship. Thanks to the new political situation in central Europe, however, this topic can finally be addressed evenhandedly.
Download or read book The German Minority in Interwar Poland written by Winson Chu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.
Download or read book The Fifth Column in World War II written by Robert Loeffel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepared an army of subversives a Fifth Column to undermine the war effort. These suspicions plagued the Australian home front for much of the war.
Download or read book Nemesis at Potsdam written by Alfred M. de Zayas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive. How did this extraordinary event come about? Was it necessary for the peace of Europe? What role did Britain and the United States play in authorizing the ‘transfer’? The book answers these questions and relates the integration of the German expellees to the phenomenal resurgence of West Germany, and traces the development of Ostpolitik and détente through to the Helsinki Declaration. It will be of interest to students of history, international relations, and political science.
Download or read book Spying for Hitler written by John Humphries and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Dunkirk, the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military and civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready and able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk, MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector. This is the true, action-packed account of how a bogus Welsh nationalist infiltrated German Military Intelligence during the Second World War.
Download or read book Poland and the Second World War 1938 1948 written by Evan McGilvray and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed chronicle of Poland’s efforts during World War II from beginning to end, by the author of Narvik and the Allies. The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistance, Poland was quickly conquered but Poles continued the struggle to the very last day of the war against Germany, resisting the occupier within their homeland and fighting in exile with the Allied forces. Evan McGilvray, drawing on intensive research in Polish sources, gives a comprehensive account of Poland’s war. He reveals the complexities of Poland’s relationship with the Allies (forced to accept their Soviet enemies as allies after 1941, then betrayed to Soviet occupation in the post-war settlement), as well as the divisions between Polish factions that led to civil war even before the defeat of Germany. The author narrates all the fighting involving Polish forces, including such famous actions as the Battle of Britain, Tobruk, Normandy, Arnhem, and the Warsaw Rising, but also lesser known aspects such as Kopinski’s Carpathian Brigade in Italy, Polish troops under Soviet command, and the capture of Wilhelmshaven on the last day of the war.
Download or read book Austria Hungary Poland Russia written by Herbert A. Strauss and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
