God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

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CHAPTER 20. GOLGOTA



  1. (US Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality) Nazi Conspiracy and
    Aggression, vi (Washington 1948), 390—2, cities Naujock's own deposition.

  2. Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader (London, 1952), 38.

  3. Nicholas Bethell, The War Hitler Won (London, 1972), describes the political back-
    ground to the September campaign. Clare Hollingworth, The Three Weeks' War in
    Poland (London, 1940) provides an eye-witness account. Military studies include
    R. M. Kennedy, The German Campaign in Poland (Washington, 1956);
    M. N. Neugebauer, The Defence of Poland, September 1939 (London, 1942); John
    Kimche, The Unf'ought Battle (London, 1968); The German Invasion of Poland {The
    Polish Black Book), Poland Ministry of Information (London, 1940); Polskie Sily
    Zbrojne w drugiej wojnie swiatowej, Sikorski Institute, i (London, 1951); T. Jurga,
    Wrzesiefl 1939 (Warsaw, 1970); Z. Flisowski, Westerplatte (Warsaw, 1971);
    T. Kutrzeba, Bitwa nad Bzurq: 9-22 wrzesnia 1939 (Warsaw, 1958); M. Zgorniak,
    'A German general on the September Campaign', Polish Western Affairs, iii (1962),
    353-72; M. M. Drozdowski, Alarm dla Warszawy (Warsaw, 1975).

  4. See Zbigniew Zaluski, Siedem grzechow polskich (Warsaw, 1973), 'Grzech czwarty: z
    lancami na czolgi', 60-4.

  5. Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey (London, 1950), Foreward by Winston S.
    Churchill.

  6. Stanislaw Piotrowski, Hans Frank's Diary (Warsaw, 1961; in English tr.) 299-300.

  7. The two comprehensive studies of Nazi policy in occupied Poland are M. Broszat,
    Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik, 1939-45 (Revised Edition, Frankfurt-Hamburg,
    1965); Cz. Madajczyk, Polityka III Rzeszy w okupowanej Polsce (Warsaw, 1970), 2 vols:
    (also in German, as Die deutschen Besatzungspolitik in Polen, 1939-45 (Wiesbaden,
    1967).

  8. Krushchev Remembers, trans. Strobe Talbot, with an introduction, com comentaiy, and
    notes by Edward Crankshaw (London, 1971), 128-9. In this same passage, Krushchev
    recalls making friends with Wanda Lvovna Wassilevska (Wanda Wasilewska), 'who
    helped us to get through to those Poles who were clinging irrationally to the idea that we
    had negotiated the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact at their expense'.

  9. Documents on German Foreign Policy (1918—45), Series D, xi (London, 1961, No. 638,
    1068.

  10. See Chapter 19, note 38 above.

  11. Willi Frischauer, Himmler: the evil genius of the Third Reich (London, 1953), 135-6. See
    German Crimes in Poland (Warsaw, 1946-7), 2 vols.

  12. See K. M. Pospieszalski, Hitlerowskie prawo okupacyjne w Polsce: dokumenty (Poznan,
    1952-8), 2 vols.; T. Cyprian, Wehrmacht: Zbrodnia i kara (Warsaw, 1972);
    A. Konieczny, Pod rzqdami wojennego prawa karnego Trzeciej Rzeszy, Gorny Slqsk
    1939-4; (Warsaw, 1972); J. T. Gross, Polish Society under German Occupation,
    1939-44, Princeton 1979.

  13. See G. R. Reitlinger. The Final Solution: an attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe,
    1939-4; (London, 1953). Some technical details, and the timing of the operation are in
    dispute. See above Chapter 9, note 23.

  14. See E. Duraczyiiski, Wojna a okupacja (Warsaw, 1973).

  15. T. Esman, W. Jastrzebski, Pierwsze miesiqce okupacji hitlerowskiej w Bydgoszczy w
    swietle zrodet niemieckich (Bydgoszcz, 1967); C. Luczak, Kraj Warty, 1939-4; (Poznan,
    1972).

  16. Order 0054, 28 November 1940 signed by Gusevitius, People's Commissar for the
    Interior, Lithuanian SSR. quoted in The Dark Side of the Moon, prefaced by T. S. Eliot
    (New York, 1947), 51. Under Soviet practice, a deportation order normally included all
    the immediate relatives of the named deportee.

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