The belittling of the German murder of 3 million Poles as "only" 10% of the population is fallacious. General Blaskowitz adds to those who realized that killing substantially more Poles would've led to unacceptable problems for wartime Germany.

Probably the most comprehensive English-language study, by a German scholar, on the genocide of Slavs in parallel with the genocide of the Jews. Not only racism but also economic considerations motivated the Nazis (see the Peczkis review).

An excellent, though necessarily incomplete, introduction to the forgotten genocide of Poles during the Nazi German occupation.

The author focuses on the expulsions of the Wartheland Poles by the Germans, and Heinrich Himmler's plan to exterminate 30 million locals as a byproduct of Operation Barbarossa.

This author recognizes the fact that, after the Jews, the Nazis planned to exterminate 10 million gentiles a year at Auschwitz-Birkenau (see the Peczkis review).

Martin Bormann plainly said that Slavs can exist only for as long as they are needed by the Germans as laborers. He also advocated measures to reduce the fertility of the Slavic peoples.

This volume from the Nuremberg Trials focuses on Hans Frank and his genocidal acts as Governor General of German-occupied Poland. He spoke of making mincemeat out of Poles and Ukrainians after Germany won the war. After his trial, Frank concluded: "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will still not be erased."

Read about escalating genocidal acts against both Jews and Poles, along with a progressive German disinhibition towards genocide. Resettlement plans evolved into genocide (resettlement becoming a euphemism), with GENERALPLAN OST following the same course. In time, Frank realized that he couldn't afford to kill many more Poles than he did because of its disruptiveness, need for wartime labor, etc.

Many if not most places of secret executions of Poles by Germans in forests will probably never be known--as the graves were well-disguised. Some Zamosc-area Poles were killed at Auschwitz by cardiac injections, with "natural death" listed. The Auschwitz-Birkenau facilities were to be expanded far beyond the need to handle Europe's remaining Jews. Guess for who?

Norman Finkelstein, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, reaffirms his opposition to the notion that the extermination of Jews was unique, or was in any way above that of other peoples. He calls the Holocaust-uniqueness position "repellent chauvinism."

Despite all the attention paid to the anti-gay policies of the Nazis, the Nazis' destruction of the Poles clearly took precedence over the Nazi persecution of gays. The Germans openly stated that homosexuality should be tolerated among Poles.

The complete Nazi contempt for both Jewish and Polish lives was not limited to top Nazi officials. When this Jew successfully masqueraded as a Polish gentile, and ended up in Germany, a German doctor refused to treat her. He said that treating Jews and Poles was a waste of medicine, that Poles and Jews shouldn't even be spared for forced labor, and that all Poles and Jews should die.

The Germans' cultural genocide against the Poles included the destruction of 16 million volumes in Polish libraries, including the systematic burning of at least 300,000 irreplaceable ones in Warsaw alone.

This author describes the theft of others' cultural treasures, notably that of the Poles, by Germans (not only Nazis), and of long-term German plans to exterminate the Poles.

Although Reitlinger focuses on the extermination of the Jews, he recognizes the fact that Himmler's office contained many Nazis who wanted the Poles to be also exterminated.

It is a well-known fact that the Nazis equated Jews with dirt and vermin. It turns out that Hitler and Goebbels also were obsessed with Poles being dirt.

Heinrich Himmler stated that, in time, all Poles will disappear. For now, the passive genocidal German policies in Poland had caused a drop in the Polish birth rate of 80% over prewar levels (see the Peczkis review)

A group of German scholars discuss Nazi policies. Plans to exterminate all the Poles deported from the Zamosc area who could not do labor were ameliorated in the face of increasing Polish resistance. Hitler backed off from Slav extermination because of the need for forced laborers.

Many Holocaust films are so Judeocentric that Polish sufferings are ignored to the point that the viewer gets the impression that Poles lived more or less comfortable lives under the German occupation. Instead, it was a time of daily privations and horrors for Poles. Read the testimonies of some survivors.

Includes a description of "Operation Zamosc", in which 100,000 rural Poles were deported to make room for German settlers. One-fifth of these Poles were murdered at Auschwitz. Many others died elsewhere.