Poland Flashcards
Where did Germany annex? (3)
Polish corridor
Western Poland
Western Silesia
Operation Tannenberg
Execution of Polish hostages by an SS task force
Polish intelligentsia
Prominent Poles and intellectuals arrested
Heydrich said that they were the driving force of the resistance
Execution of Polish hostages by an SS task force
Operation Tannenberg
Ethnic cleansing
Germanisation of (some) towns
Poles replaced
Armia Ludowa
Communist Soviet resistance movement
Polish underground
‘Underground state’
Underground political system
Deportations
Approximately 300,000
Resistance (4)
Polish underground
Armia Krakowa
Armia Ludowa
SOE
Armia Krakowa
Sabotaged German supplies and transport lines
SOE (2)
Polish members of the SOE volunteered and liased between allies and resistance
Assisted government in exile
Individual
Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek
Founding member of SOE
Helped establish cell of Polish spies, and ran several operations
