Theo Young-Smith

Maybe 100,000, maybe 200,000, maybe fewer. It's hard to say. What happened to Poland, there was a lot of dithering about what the Nazis and the Russians would do. But in the end, Western Poland was annexed by the Reich. Stalin, that's about 10 million people.

Maybe 100,000, maybe 200,000, maybe fewer. It's hard to say. What happened to Poland, there was a lot of dithering about what the Nazis and the Russians would do. But in the end, Western Poland was annexed by the Reich. Stalin, that's about 10 million people.

Maybe 100,000, maybe 200,000, maybe fewer. It's hard to say. What happened to Poland, there was a lot of dithering about what the Nazis and the Russians would do. But in the end, Western Poland was annexed by the Reich. Stalin, that's about 10 million people.

Stalin took the eastern bit, so that's about 13 million people, and that was given to the republics of Belarus and Ukraine where it remains today.

Stalin took the eastern bit, so that's about 13 million people, and that was given to the republics of Belarus and Ukraine where it remains today.

Stalin took the eastern bit, so that's about 13 million people, and that was given to the republics of Belarus and Ukraine where it remains today.

So we will hear next time on Thursday's episode about what happens in Stalin's bit of Poland, the killings of tens of thousands of professional people and officers and so on, the people put in prison camps, and in particular the one and a half million people who are put into cattle trucks and then are deported to Kazakhstan or to Siberia.

So we will hear next time on Thursday's episode about what happens in Stalin's bit of Poland, the killings of tens of thousands of professional people and officers and so on, the people put in prison camps, and in particular the one and a half million people who are put into cattle trucks and then are deported to Kazakhstan or to Siberia.

So we will hear next time on Thursday's episode about what happens in Stalin's bit of Poland, the killings of tens of thousands of professional people and officers and so on, the people put in prison camps, and in particular the one and a half million people who are put into cattle trucks and then are deported to Kazakhstan or to Siberia.

And these are people, I mean, it's not just anybody who's a professional person who's in the army, who owns land or anything like that, but even Stalin deported people who, if you spoke Esperanto, if you collected stamps, if you had kind of cosmopolitan tendencies, a sense of sophistication and integration into European culture, you know, you are out, you're off. Yes.

And these are people, I mean, it's not just anybody who's a professional person who's in the army, who owns land or anything like that, but even Stalin deported people who, if you spoke Esperanto, if you collected stamps, if you had kind of cosmopolitan tendencies, a sense of sophistication and integration into European culture, you know, you are out, you're off. Yes.

And these are people, I mean, it's not just anybody who's a professional person who's in the army, who owns land or anything like that, but even Stalin deported people who, if you spoke Esperanto, if you collected stamps, if you had kind of cosmopolitan tendencies, a sense of sophistication and integration into European culture, you know, you are out, you're off. Yes.

That left a kind of rump bit of Poland in sort of the south and the center around Warsaw and Krakow, which had about 11 million people. And there was some talk, will we have a kind of rump state? And they said basically, no, we'll just leave this as a kind of weird appendage, kind of semi-legal colony called the General Government. And it was ruled by Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer.

That left a kind of rump bit of Poland in sort of the south and the center around Warsaw and Krakow, which had about 11 million people. And there was some talk, will we have a kind of rump state? And they said basically, no, we'll just leave this as a kind of weird appendage, kind of semi-legal colony called the General Government. And it was ruled by Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer.

That left a kind of rump bit of Poland in sort of the south and the center around Warsaw and Krakow, which had about 11 million people. And there was some talk, will we have a kind of rump state? And they said basically, no, we'll just leave this as a kind of weird appendage, kind of semi-legal colony called the General Government. And it was ruled by Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer.

And this, the general government, becomes the location for some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust. So the big camps, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor and Belzec are all in the general government. And in these areas, Polishness, they attempt to eradicate Polishness itself. They shut down all the schools, the universities, the libraries, the museums. Polish music is banned. Chopin is banned.

And this, the general government, becomes the location for some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust. So the big camps, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor and Belzec are all in the general government. And in these areas, Polishness, they attempt to eradicate Polishness itself. They shut down all the schools, the universities, the libraries, the museums. Polish music is banned. Chopin is banned.

And this, the general government, becomes the location for some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust. So the big camps, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor and Belzec are all in the general government. And in these areas, Polishness, they attempt to eradicate Polishness itself. They shut down all the schools, the universities, the libraries, the museums. Polish music is banned. Chopin is banned.

They abolish Polish names, don't they? So the town of Auschwitz becomes Auschwitz. Auschwitz, exactly. National monuments are blown up. Teachers are murdered. All of this kind of thing. In the first three months of the year, the SS and the German militias of various kinds probably murdered, I don't know, 65,000, 70,000 people, priests, intellectuals, professional people.

They abolish Polish names, don't they? So the town of Auschwitz becomes Auschwitz. Auschwitz, exactly. National monuments are blown up. Teachers are murdered. All of this kind of thing. In the first three months of the year, the SS and the German militias of various kinds probably murdered, I don't know, 65,000, 70,000 people, priests, intellectuals, professional people.