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  1. Martin Gilbert _ The Second World War: A

    Hitler's entourage quickly learned what he had in mind. On September 9 Colonel Eduard Wagner discussed the future of Poland with Hitler's Army Chief of Staff, General Halder. 'It is the Führer's and Goering's intention', Wagner wrote in his diary, 'to destroy and exterminate the Polish nation. More than that cannot even be hinted at in writing.
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  2. Martin Gilbert _ The Second World War: A

    the slave labour system, already applied to Jews, was extended to Poles, just as it already applied to Czechs. 'A hundred thousand Czech workmen', Churchill told a public audience in Manchester on January 27, 'had been led off into slavery to be toiled to death in Germany.' But what was happening to the Czechs, Churchill added, 'pales in comparison with the atrocities which, as I speak here this afternoon, are being perpetrated upon the Poles'. From the 'shameful records' of the Germans' mass executions in Poland, Churchill declared, 'we may judge what our fate would be if we fell into their clutches. But from them also we may draw the force and inspiration to carry us forward on our journey and not to pause or rest till liberation is achieved and justice is done.
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  3. Martin Gilbert _ The Second World War: A

    In one day alone, at the end of December, as a result of frostbite, more than fourteen thousand German soldiers had been forced to submit to amputation. Not all of them survived the operation.
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  4. Martin Gilbert _ The Second World War: A

    The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall.
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  5. Martin Gilbert _ The Second World War: A

    ten thousand Soviet evacuees had been drowned off Tallinn, and twenty-three thousand Hungarian Jews murdered at Kamenets Podolsk, in the same three day period. But these were far from the only deaths in those few August days.
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