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How Did Occupied Poland Become the Laboratory of Nazi Racial Empire? - The 1939 Partition and the Nazi Occupation Apparatus | Sleepy Facts About History
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In September 1939, Poland vanished from the map, divided between German and Soviet forces. But what followed was not a conventional military occupation. It was the immediate opening of a racial war, conducted with bureaucratic precision in some regions and ruthless improvisation in others. This episode examines the first two years of German rule in Poland, a period often treated as a prelude to the Holocaust, but which actually functioned as the central laboratory for the Nazi empire's…
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