Class Year
2023
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Fall 2020
Department 1
History
Abstract
The Nazi invasion and occupation of Western Poland was a vital first step to the development and fulfillment of the genocidal processes of the Holocaust. The utilization of mass arrests, executions, and shootings led to the persecution and death of hundreds of thousands of Poles and Polish Jews prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union and inception of the Final Solution in the summer of 1941.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Letizia, Lauren R., "Before Barbarossa: The Nazi Occupation of Western Poland, September 1,1939-June 22, 1941" (2020). Student Publications. 880.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/880
Included in
European History Commons, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Commons, Military History Commons
Comments
Written for Hist 218: History of Modern Germany