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unusual facts about occupied Poland



Augustyn Träger

Augustyn Träger (born August 25, 1896 in Kalnica Dolna - died, April 22, 1957 in Bydgoszcz), codenames Sęk (Knot) and Tragarz (Moving Man), was a Polish-Austrian soldier during World War I and an intelligence officer in interwar and German-occupied Poland.

Karl Steubl

Before his last assignment at Sobibor in occupied Poland, Steubl was a senior male nurse at Schloss Hartheim, the biggest mass extermination centre outside Eastern Europe set up at Alkoven in Upper Austria.

Matt McCarten

Comparing the situation of Gaza with that of the Warsaw Ghetto in occupied Poland, McCarten has also suggested that the next move of Israeli leaders could be "to follow the example of the Nazis who in the end massacred everyone".

Radom Ghetto

Radom Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up in March 1941 by Nazi Germany in the city of Radom in occupied Poland, for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of the local Polish Jews.

Zasław concentration camp

The Zasław concentration camp or Zwangsarbeitslager Zaslaw was the World War II German concentration camp for ghettoised Jews, established in occupied Poland near the village of Zasław, (now part of Zagórz in Poland).


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Camp King

: Hans Frank, Reich Minister, Governor-General of occupied Poland

Chabad-Lubavitch related controversies

At the start of the Second World War, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok escaped Nazi occupied Poland, and settled in New York City.

Hilary Paweł Januszewski

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907; Krajenki – March 25, 1945; Dachau concentration camp), was a Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest, who sent by the Nazi authorities in occupied Poland to the concentration camp at Dachau, where he managed to survive until 1945.

MCEM 2 submachine gun

The MCEM-2 was developed by Jerzy Podsedkowski, a Polish constructor involved in work on Vis and Mors, who fled from occupied Poland to Britain.

Niklas Frank

Niklas Frank (born 9 March 1939) is a German author and journalist best known for writing a book which denounced his father Hans Frank (a German lawyer who was executed after being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials for his actions, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from his involvement with the Nazi party and as Governor-General of occupied Poland during World War II).

Oath crisis

The citizens of Austria-Hungary (roughly 3,000) were then forcibly drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army or the Polnische Wehrmacht, demoted to privates and sent to Italian Front, while people born in other parts of occupied Poland were interned in prisoner of war camps in Szczypiorno and Beniaminów.

R42

Sidolówka, a hand grenade produced in occupied Poland during World War II

Sam Sejavka

This work centres around a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Secret Polish Army

Tajna Armia Polska, TAP (Secret Polish Army) was a Resistance movement founded in November 1939 in German-occupied Poland, which was active in the areas of the Warsaw, Podlasie, Kielce and Lublin Voivodships.

The Expulsion

Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany, the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million ethnic Poles from all territories of occupied Poland