As well as the lack of translated Polish and other Slavs' experiences.
Dr Wanda Wyporska
Equalities Officer, ATL
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Sent: Mon Feb 25 12:08:44 2013
Subject: Re: what does 'racist' mean?
I think it might be useful to remember that alongside their paranoic
persecution of European Jewry, they also theorised slavs - including Poles
as "Untermensch" and indeed the first people sent to the gas chambers were
Russian prisoners of war.
Denied access to colonies in Africa, Hitler's "Lebensraum" policy involved
expansion east and the reduction of slavic people to a servile status if
not extermination.
Check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
for a useful overview.
It has been perhaps a product of the cold war that the impact of this
aspect of Nazism has not been well appreciated in the UK.
all the best
Fabian
> From the latest 'IRR News' I just read an article from a Bradford
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