Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)



Home Army (A. K.), National Armed Forces (NSZ), Indomitable Soldiers (Zolnierze Wykleci)

Zolnierze Wykleci Violence? Normal Even if True!

The Logic of Violence in Civil War, by Stathis N. Kalyvas. 2006. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York

Zolnierze Wykleci Violence? Some Basic Contextualization Author Kalyvas is a Greek political scientist and an expert on violence in irregular wars. Lewaks (Polish leftists) and Jews have revived the old Communist…

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The Daring Zolnierze Wykleci Are Now Insanely Trivialized

The Contested Symbolism of the "Cursed Soldiers": Hegemony, Memory, and the Politics of Fear in Poland, by Krzysztof Jaskulowski and Piotr Majewski. 2024. HISTORY & MEMORY 36(1)111-139

Belittling the Daring Zolnierze Wykleci By the Use of Various Trivialities This is not just another hatchet job on the Polish freedom fighters.…

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Odd Schindler Laborers, Jedwabne Evil Stahlecker, Old Anti-Partisan Warfare

Messages of Murder: A Study of the Reports of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the Security Service, 1941-1943, by Ronald Headland. 1992. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, London and Toronto

Odd Schindler Laborers: Kept Alive For Profit, and Not Out of a Love For Jews This book surveys the…

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Home Army (Armia Krajowa) Combat. A. K. Weapon Shortage. Baudienst Not Collaborationist. German Killings Mostly Not For Guerilla Acts. Polish Collaboration Driven by German Tortures. Konigsberg

AK 75: Brawurowe Akcje Armii Krajowej, by Wojciech Konigsberg. 2017. Znak Horyzont, Krakow

Armia Krajowa: Assassinations, Intelligence Gathering, Sabotage, Captives Freed, Murdered Poles Avenged DARING ACTIONS OF THE ARMIA KRAJOWA is the title of this Polish-language book. It is a mini-encyclopedia of the guerrilla Home Army actions--it's Underground deeds that…

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Poland’s Heroic Narrative Affirmed by Nazi Enemy: the Warsaw Uprising. Polish Guerrilla Combat Action. Iranek-Osmecki

The Unseen and the Silent: Adventures From the Underground Movement Narrated by Paratroops of the Polish Home Army, by Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki. 1954

No "National Myths" or "Heroic Narrative": The German Enemy Gives More Credit to the Polish Underground Than Do Many Jews and LEWAKS The title of this book refers…

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Polish Collaboration Driven By German Tortures. Unequal Risk-Taking in Verboten Activities: Aiding Jews vs. Radio Possession. Poles and Not Only Jews Faced Choiceless Choices. BAUDIENST Not Collaborationist. A. K. Weapon Shortage. Przesmycki

The Sold Out Dream: Memoirs of a Polish Freedom Fighter, by Julius F Przesmycki. 1991

The 1939 War, Zydokomuna Enmity, Radio-Hiding (vs. Jew-Hiding), Polish Nazi Collaboration By Poles Broken By German Tortures, A.K. Guerrilla Combat, Permanent-Exile Status, etc. The title of this comprehensive English-language book refers to the selling…

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NSZ. Fugitive Jewish Banditry. Jewish Revolutionary Banditry. Polish Guerrilla Counteractions. Pius XII. Szucki

Narodowe Sily Zbrojne, by Piotr Szucki (ed.) 1992

A 50th-Anniversary Scholarly Study of the Polish-Guerrilla NSZ. Jewish Revolutionary Banditry Provoked the Occasional (Never Systematic) NSZ Killings of Fugitive Jews THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES is the title of this Polish-language anthology. It features articles by historians, notably by Leszek Zebrowski and…

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BIG BULLETIN: AWESOME BUT FORGOTTEN POLISH GUERRILLA WAR

  • The Polish Underground State had several features unique to German-occupied Europe: a hidden state apparatus, a photoengraving facility, and the Underground manufacture of British "Sten" guns (Ney-Krwawicz 2001).
  • The Jan T. Gross idiocy about "well-paid" Polish guerrillas is beyond obscene. It was, at most, subsistence payments (Szymanski 1973), and…

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The Polish Home Army (ARMIA KRAJOWA: A. K.): A Retrospective. Gryz

Armia Krajowa: Spojrzenie Po Siedemdziesieciu Latach, by Ryszard Gryz (ed). 2015. Wydawnicto Jana Kochanowskiego, Kielce

Polish Guerrilla Combat in the Kielce Region THE HOME ARMY: A LOOK AFTER THE PASSAGE OF SEVENTY YEARS, is the title of this Polish-language book. I focus on a few issues. In the discussion towards…

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No Suicidal Pro-Jewish Polish Uprising: Silly Complaint. Polish Guerrilla Combat Action. Ney-Krwawicz

The Polish Resistance Home Army, by Marek Ney-Krwawicz. 2001

The Polish Underground Didn't Launch a Suicidal Uprising on Behalf of Millions of Murdered Poles, So Why, According to Jewish Accusations, Were the Poles "Supposed" To Do So On Behalf of the Jews? This book presents an excellent English-language summary of…

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ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI. Indomitable Soldiers. Cursed Soldiers. Freedom Fighters. Geographic Details. Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (IPN)

Atlas polskiego podziemia niepodległościowego 1944-1956/The atlas of the independence underground in Poland 1944-1956, by Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (IPN). 2007

The Zolnierze Wykleci: A Superb, Very Detailed Atlas and Compendium of Polish Guerrilla Action Against the Soviet-Imposed Communist Puppet Government THE ATLAS OF THE INDEPENDENCE UNDERGROUND IN POLAND 1944-1956 is the…

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A. K. Guerrilla Combat Action. Railways to Death Camps Not Blown Up Fallacy. Tworzyanski

As I Remember: Polish Home Army in the Konecki and Nowogrodek Regions 1939-1945, by Bojomir Tworzyanski. 2009. B. J. Tworzyanski Ltd., Markham, Ontario

Guerrilla Combat Action: The Experiences of an Armia Krajowa Polish Guerrilla This memoir recounts the wartime acts of the author. He fought in the 1939 defensive war,…

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German Zamosc Operation: Polish Guerrilla Combat Action (Book One). Gmitruk

Chlopi w Obronie Zamojszczyzny, by Janusz Gmitruk (ed.) 1985

Striking Back at the Polocaust: Polish-Guerrilla Peasant Battalions (BCh) Against the German-Nazi and OUN-UPA Genocides in the Zamosc Area PEASANTS IN DEFENSE OF THE ZAMOSC REGION is the title of this Polish-language anthology. It combines valuable information on the Polish Underground…

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NSZ Anti-Semitic? Hardly. NSZ Unit Gave Shelter to Jews During the Warsaw Uprising. Rogue Guerrilla/Bandit Bands May Have Killed Jews. Pilacinski

Narodowe Sily Zbrojne: Kulisy Walki Podziemnej 1939-1945, by Jerzy Pilacinski "Lech". 1976. Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Imienia Romana Dmowskiego nr. 10

The Political Roots of the Polish Guerrilla NSZ. The NSZ and the Jews THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES: THE BACKSTAGE OF THE UNDERGROUND COMBAT 1939-1945, is the title of this Polish-language book.…

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NSZ Guerrilla Combat. Accusations of Killing Jews is Recycled Communist Propaganda. Miecz i Plug Details. Soviet Rapes. Boguszewski

Zeszyty Do Historii Narodowych Sil Zbrojnych I, by Tadeusz Boguszewski (ed.) 1961. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne, Chicago

NSZ Intelligence Gathering, Sabotage, and Guerrilla Warfare. Soviet Enmity Appreciated NOTEBOOKS CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES is the title of this unpublished Polish-language typewritten notebook. It is the first of a…

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Hubal and His Campaign: Unappreciated Aspects of Guerrilla Warfare. Guerrilla Combat Action. All Guerrillas Were Bandits a Myth. 1939 War. Syryjczyk

Medical Care in the Unit of Henryk Dobrzanski aka "Hubal", by Donata Syryjczyk. 2012

The Striking Degree of Practical Polish Support for Hubal's Unit This is a review of an article published in MILITARY PHARMACY AND MEDICINE 2:42-48. Rather than focusing on guerrilla combat itself, this article examines the logistics…

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ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI. Indomitable Soldiers. Cursed Soldiers. Freedom Fighters. Communism a Forced Soviet Import. Wasowski and Zebrowski

Zolnierze Wykleci, by Grzegorz Wasowski and Leszek Zebrowski. 1999

Cursed Soldiers: A Photo-Filled One-Volume Encyclopedia on the Polish Guerrilla Resistance Against Soviet Rule THE CURSED SOLDIERS: THE ANTI-COMMUNIST ARMED UNDERGROUND AFTER 1944 is the title of this Polish-language book. It features almost exhaustive biographical detail about Underground guerrilla personages of…

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ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI. Indomitable Soldiers. Cursed Soldiers. Guerrilla Freedom Fighters in the Lublin Area. Ewa Kurek

Zaporczycy w Fotografii 1943-1963, by Ewa Kurek. 1995

Guerrilla Combat: The Zolnierze Wykleci: A Fascinating Photo-Album of Polish Guerrillas Who Fought Against the Nazis and Communists. Decades-Long Combat! THE 'ZAPORCZYCY' [MAJOR ZAPORA'S MEN] IN PHOTOGRAPHS 1943-1963, is the title of this 2009 Polish-language book. It has a huge collection of…

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NSZ Guerrilla Combat Action Against Bandits (Much Detail), Germans, and Communists. Fugitive Jewish Banditry. Zochowski

Narodowe Sily Zbrojne: Wspomnienia Osobiste, by S. "Bohdan" Zochowski. 1950

Some Early Combat Missions of the NSZ. Implications for the Killing of Fugitive Jews NATIONAL ARMED FORCES: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS is the title of this Polish-language article, originally published in KULTURA 5(31)100-126. Note that this is article was published shortly after…

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German Zamosc Operation: Polish Guerrilla Combat Action (Book Two). Jewish Passivity. Gmitruk

Powstanie Zamojskie, by Janusz Gmitruk (ed.) 2003

Organized and Patriotically-Active Polish Peasantry. The Polocaust Partly Thwarted Locally: The "Zamosc Uprising" by Polish BCh (Peasant Battalion) Guerrillas THE ZAMOSC UPRISING, a Polish-language book, is the most recent in a series of BCh (Bataliony Chlopskie) studies by Janusz Gmitruk, all reviewed by…

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NSZ Guerrilla Combat Action: Brygada Swietokrzyska Featured. No Pogrom of Jews at Przedborz. Boguszewski

Zeszyty Do Historii Narodowych Sil Zbrojnych III, by Tadeusz Boguszewski (ed.) 1964. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne, Chicago

The Brygada Swietokrzyska: Combat Operations in Nazi German-Occupied Poland NOTEBOOKS CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES is the title of this unpublished Polish-language notebook. It is the third of a series of…

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ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI, Indomitable Soldiers. Cursed Soldiers. Freedom Fighters: Some Personalities. Wieliczka Szarkowa

Żołnierze wyklęci. Niezłomni bohaterowie, by Joanna Wieliczka-Szarkowa. 2013

Freedom Fighters: Polish Irregular Fighters for Freedom Against the Soviet-Imposed Communist Puppet Government THE CURSED SOLDIERS: INDOMITABLE HEROES is the title of this Polish-language work. It focuses on the post-WWII Polish anti-Communist guerrilla movements, with the book organized according to chapter on…

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January 1863 Insurrection. Zebrowski

Powstanie Styczniowe, by Leszek Zebrowski (ed.) 2013

Includes Little-Known Facts on the Poles' January 1863 Insurrection THE JANUARY INSURRECTION (January 1863 Insurrection) is the title of this Polish-language book. The introduction, written by historian Leszek Zebrowski, is packed with more information than many books on this subject. Let us look…

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NSZ. Zolnierze Wykleci. Indomitable Soldiers Biographies. Cursed Soldiers. Guerrilla Combat Action: Accounts From Multiple Sources. Saweczko

Poczet Zolnierzy Wykletych, by Mateusz Saweczko. 2016. Capital Book, Warszawa

Indomitable Soldiers Biographies. Examines 75 Anti-Communist Guerrilla Leaders and Their Patriotic Deeds. Alleged Killing of Jews: Implications FELLOWSHIP OF THE INDOMITABLE SOLDIERS is the title of this Polish-language book. It focuses on the inevitably-futile war (1944-1963) against the Soviet-imposed Communist…

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NSZ in War: NSZ Guerrilla Combat Action. Poles and Not Only Jews Lost Property. All Guerillas Were Bandits a Myth. Rutkowski

Z Ziemi Swietokrzyskiej Na Ziemi Odzyskane: Wspomnienia, by Marian Rutkowski. 2014. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej, Wroclaw

The NSZ in War Against the German Conquerors of Poland FROM THE SWIETOKRZYSKI LANDS TO THE RECOVERED TERRITORIES: RECOLLECTIONS is the title of this Polish-language book. This work includes the author's involvement in the…

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November 1830 Insurrection and January 1863 Insurrection. Futile Bloodletting? No! Polish Guerrilla Warfare Copied By Other Nations. Halicz

Partisan Warfare in 19th-Century Poland, by Emanuel Halicz. 1975. Odense University Press, Odense

The Kosciuszko Insurrection (1794), the November Insurrection (1830), and the January Insurrection (1863): The Pioneering Nature of Polish Guerrilla Warfare This work focuses on the Polish Insurrections of 1894, 1831, and 1863. It emphasizes tactics rather than…

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NSZ. Brygada Swietokrzyska Saved Jews. Other Jews Became Enemies of Poland Through Communism. Bohun Dabrowski

Bylem Dowodca Brygady Swietokrzyskiej, by Antoni Bohun-Dabrowski. 1984

NSZ Saves Jews. Polish Guerrilla Leader Tells How His "Anti-Semitic" Unit Saved a Large Group of Jewish Women From Being Burned Alive by the Germans This action-packed memoir covers the prewar period, the 1939 campaign, guerilla actions in the region of Kielce,…

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Efficacy of Polish Guerrilla Warfare: Recognition and Admiration by Top Nazi Officials. Futile Bloodletting? No! Gehlen

The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen. 1972. World Publishing, New York

Gehlen Polish Underground. The Nazi German Enemy Appreciated the Sophistication of Polish Partisan Warfare Nowadays, there are complaints about Polish guerrilla warfare by some Jews, in that Poles dwell on their "heroic narrative" instead of beating their…

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The Last-Living Hubal Soldier. German Concentration Camps. Jewish Sonderkommandos: Collaborative Conduct. Yalta Sellout. Ziolkowska-Boehm

Polish Hero Roman Rodziewicz: Fate of a Hubal Soldier in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Postwar England, by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm. 2013. Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York

The Hubal Men Were Religious, and Had Deep Ties to the People. Intense Guerrilla Combat This book describes the life of one of the Hubalczycy.…

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ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI. Indomitable Soldiers. Cursed Soldiers. Direct Communist Repressive Terror, By the Soviet “Ally”, Immediately After WWII. Kaczorowska

Oblawa Augustowska, by Teresa Kaczorowska. 2015. Bellona, Warszawa

The Soviet Boot at First Fails to Stomp Out Polish Freedom Fighters in Augustow and Environs THE AUGUSTOW ROUNDUP is the title of this Polish-language book. Augustow is part of the region of NE Poland as defined by her post-WWII boundaries, and…

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ARMIA KRAJOWA: Why Few Jews. Post-Holocaust Jewish Properties Easily Recovered by Survivors. Szmalcowniki Effectively Combatted. Zuker-Bujanowska

Liliana's Journal: Warsaw 1939-1945, by Liliana Zuker-Bujanowska. 1980

Why Jews Seldom Accepted Into AK (ARMIA KRAJOWA). Re-Acquisition of Jewish Property After the War In common with countless Jewish and Polish eyewitnesses, the author describes the indiscriminate bombing and strafing of defenseless Polish civilians, by the Luftwaffe, during the German-Soviet conquest…

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Futile Bloodletting? No! Striking a Blow Against Russian Oppression. January 1863 Insurrection Classic. Blessing the Tools of Warfare. Gawronski

Walka o Wolnosc w roku 1863, by Fr. Rawita-Gawronski. 1913

A Rare Gem. Background to the January 1863 Insurrection: Why Poles Found Russian Rule So Odious THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN THE YEAR 1863 is the title of this Polish-language book. (Review based on original 1913 edition). Author Franciszek Gawronski…

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Futile Bloodletting? No! German Terror Palliated By Polish Guerrilla Actions. Efficacy of Polish Guerrilla Warfare. Railways to Death Camps Not Blown Up Fallacy. Jekielek

Bataliony Chlopskie w Malopolsce i Na Slasku, by Wojciech Jekielek. 1987

Polish Guerrillas Counter the German-Sponsored Alcoholism, Confiscations of Feedstuffs, and Polish Collaborators. The Impossibility of Death-Camp-Bound Trains Destroyed by the Polish Underground Title: THE PEASANT BATTALIONS IN THE MALOPOLSKA REGION AND IN SILESIA: A CALENDAR. This work follows a…

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Home Army (Armia Krajowa) Guerrilla Warfare. Jew Killing WWII By Poles Bogus Order. Fugitive Jewish Banditry Very Real. No Polish Quisling Because Poles Refused. Bor Komorowski

The Secret Army, by Tadeusz Bór Komorowski. 1951, 1984

A Bogus Order: The Falsehood of Commander Bor Komorowski Giving an Order For Poles to Kill Fugitive Jews. The Soviet-Betrayed Warsaw Uprising Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski was, after the capture of Grot Rowecki by the Germans, the head of the entire AK…

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NSZ-ONR Rejects Nazi Policies on Jews. NSZ-ONR Members Rescued Jews. Chrzanowski

Zwiazek Jaszczurczy i Narodowe Siły Zbrojne na Pomorzu 1939-1947: nieznane karty pomorskiej konspiracji, by Bogdan Chrzanowski. 1997

Polish ONR Anti-Semitism Not Nazi-Like. Amazingly, ONR-NSZ Guerrillas Functioned Effectively Even in Polish Territory Annexed By the Third Reich The literally-translated title of this Polish-language work is: THE ORDER OF LIZARDS AND NATIONAL…

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NSZ. Dealing With Collaborators. Jew Killing WWII By Poles: Why Children Were Sometimes Killed. Kolacinski

Miedzy Mlotem a Swastyka, by Wladyslaw Kolacinski "Zbik". 1961, 2018. Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (IPN)

INSTRUCTIVE! Why Polish Guerrillas Were, in Rare Circumstances, Forced to Kill Innocent Relatives of Collaborators [Including Potentially Jewish Ones]. NSZ Combat Against the Nazi German Occupant and the Communist GL-AL Bands and Their " Revolutionary…

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Poles and Not Only Jews Were Killed For Who They Were! Home Army (ARMIA KRAJOWA: A. K.) Guerrilla Combat Action. Rosinski

The Warsaw Underground: A Memoir of Resistance 1939-1945, by Jan Rosinski with Richard Hile. 2014. McFarland & Company, Inc. North Carolina and London

Broad-Based Experiences in the Armia Krajowa: Espionage, Sabotage, and the Kutschera Assassination The author had broad-based experiences in the Home Army, and eventually fought in the…

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Questionable Jewish Business Practices. Zydokomuna in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising–Home Army (Armia Krajowa) Assistance. Krall

Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Hanna Krall, Lawrence Weschler. 1986

Jewish Business Practices Under the Spotlight. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Steeped in Communism This interview raises some interesting issues. For example: JEWISH SHOPKEEPERS: QUESTIONABLE…

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Polish Guerrillas Assassinate Top Nazi German Officials. Efficacy of Polish Guerrilla Warfare. Unknowable Scale of German Murder of Poles. Poles and Not Only Jews Were Cremated en Masse. IPN. Zarnowski

Rather Die Than Betray the Cause: The Gestapo Detention Center at Aleja Schucha 25, by Witold Zarnowski. 2021. Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (IPN), Warszawa

Polish Guerrillas Assassinate Top Germans. A Graphic Description of a Gestapo Prison in German-Occupied Poland: Broader Implications This work is on the complex of Gestapo prisons that…

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Ukrainian UPA Genocide of Poles Counteracted by Polish Guerrillas. Dziemianczuk

Polish Self Defence In Volhynia, by Wladyslaw Dziemianczuk. 1999

How Poles Fought Back Against the Ukrainian (OUN-UPA) Genocide of Poles in Volyn (Wolyn) This is one of the few English-language books on this little-known genocidal event. During the German occupation of prewar eastern Poland during WWII, Ukrainian collaborators massively assisted…

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NSZ: Bogus Accusations of Antisemitism. Dmowski-Pilsudski Factionalism Overcome. ONR Activism. Secret Education Under Nazi German Rule. Boguszewski

Zeszyty Do Historii Narodowych Sil Zbrojnych II, by Tadeusz Boguszewski (ed.) 1962. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne, Chicago

NSZ Intelligence Gathering and Guerrilla Warfare. Prewar NSZ Political Roots NOTEBOOKS CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES is the title of this unpublished Polish-language notebook. It is the second of a series…

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NSZ Definitive Work. NSZ Guerrilla Combat Action. NSZ and the Holocaust: No Connection. Goodbye Jews! a Lie. No Polish Quisling Because Poles Refused. Gniadek-Zielinski

Narodowe Sily Zbrojne 1942-1947, by Michal Gniadek-Zielinski. 2017. Capital Book, Warszawa

NSZ Definitive Work: Polish Patriots That Fought Hitler and Stalin. A Comprehensive Book This work is a one-volume encyclopedia on the NSZ. I tend to focus on matters that I had not elaborated in my earlier reviews of works…

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