Poles

Paige Richey

Nicole Gutierrez

Chase Brannon

Cameron Carlson

Breeana Weaver

Sara Godfrey

Hailey-Jean Tustison

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Victims of the Nazis: The Poles

Aftermath of War

Information

Why Target the Poles

• 1942, teens/adults taken for forced labor
• 4,454 children were readopted
• Some killed or sent to homes
• Estimate of 50,000 children kidnapped

• Everything was taken from them
• Left without homes or families
• Lots were killed
• Families separated

• Poles died of executions, harsh, conditions, and labor
• 20,000 at Sachsenhausen/ Gross-Rosen
• 30,000 at Mauthausen
• 17,000 at Nevengamme/ Ravensbrveck
• 10,000 at Dachau
• 10,000s died in other camps

Life after Nazis

• Germans needed to expand into Poland
• They wanted to keep the polish people from uniting against them
• Polish people were considered the enemy, and beneath them or racioally inferior

Life in Poland

• Nazis destroyed much of the polish culture
• Demolished universities, school, museums, libraries and scientific laboratories
• Murdered in mass executions
• Had to work ten hours a day, if over fourteen

• Calm and peaceful
• Most were peasants, agricultural laborers, and industrial workers
• Lower, middle class citizens

The Poles

• Anyone living in Poland
• Included women, children, men
• The country next to Germany
• Most were common Catholics