Understanding an Occupation Unlike Most Others
by Edward Reid Only in German Occupied Poland? When people speak about occupied Europe during the Second World War, they sometimes imagine that every nation experienced German rule in roughly … Continue reading
The Neglected Narrative: Polish Victims in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Before 1986, no American historian had written a systematic account of the Polish people under the German occupation. Prior to that time, the story of ethnic Poles had been subsumed … Continue reading
The Battle of Britain
10 July 1940 – The Battle of Britain Begins On this day in 1940, the Battle of Britain began, one of the defining turning points of the Second World War. … Continue reading
Against Anonymity.
There is a second death that does not arrive with violence, nor with the closing of eyes, nor even with the final breath drawn in fear, exhaustion, or resignation, but … Continue reading
Although defeated Polish soldiers did not stop fighting
When Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939, the country was defeated militarily within weeks. The Polish state was occupied, its cities bombed, its officers murdered, and … Continue reading
What would you do?
There are questions that are comfortable to ask from a distance and questions that become unbearable when we move them closer to home. “What would you do?” is one of … Continue reading
Józef Unrug, German Admiral
“A German-born admiral spent 6 years in Nazi POW camps and never spoke a single word of German to his captors—not even to his own cousin.”Admiral Józef Unrug was born … Continue reading
German propaganda during the Second World War
German propaganda during the Second World War leaned heavily on racial ideology and worked relentlessly to portray Poles as Untermenschen, or sub-humans. In 1940, Hans Frank, the Governor-General of occupied … Continue reading
Little Auschwitz
November 28, 1942 Reichsführer of Germany Heinrich Himmler issued an order to create a “Little Auschwitz” or German Death / Work Camp for Polish Children in Łódź on a separate … Continue reading
Historical silence becomes a second death
Edward Reid I write about Polish history not to compare tragedies or measure one nation’s suffering against another, but because silence becomes a second death. When a nation loses six … Continue reading
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