Yivo Poland: Poland Prior To 1795
As a initially step, Nazi governors in the annexed territories (such as Arthur Greiser in the Warthegau and Albert Forster in Danzig-West Prussia) forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Poles into the Generalgouvernement. Far more than 500,000 ethnic Germans have been then settled in these regions. In 1942–43, SS and Police units carried out Germanization actions in the Zamosc area of the Generalgouvernement, forcibly removing some one hundred,000 Polish civilians, including 30,000 young children. Families were broken up, numerous victims…