The Baltic States and the Great Powers: Foreign Relations, 1938-1940, by David M. Crowe and, The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War, edited by John Hiden and Thomas LaneThe Baltic States and the Great Powers: Foreign Relations, 1938-1940, by David M. Crowe. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1993. xvi, 264 pp. $55.00 U.S.The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War, edited by John Hiden and Thomas Lane. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv, 177 pp. $49.95 U.S.

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-260
Author(s):  
Alan Cassels
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
World War ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Second World

‘We Forgot All Jews and Poles’: German Women and the ‘Ethnic Struggle’ in Nazi-occupied Poland

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-461
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Second World War ◽  
German Population ◽  
World War ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Ethnic Germans ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Second World ◽  
Jewish Populations

During the Second World War, the Nazi regime sent thousands of German women to occupied Poland to work with the ethnic German population, comprising native ethnic Germans and resettlers from the Baltic states, eastern Poland and Romania. They were to be trained to act as model colonisers for the newly conquered territories. Meanwhile the non-German population was subjugated and terrorised. This article examines what German women witnessed in Poland and how far they can be seen as complicit in acts of violence and injustice committed against Poles and Jews. To what extent did a gendered division of labour prevent women actively being involved in or witnessing acts committed against the Polish and Jewish populations? Did a construct of ‘womanly work’ help women to ‘look away’ from the evidence of oppression and persecution?

scholarly journals Polityka państw bałtyckich wobec Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i III Rzeszy na przełomie marca i kwietnia 1939 roku w ocenie wileńskiej ekspozytury oddziału II Sztabu Głównego Wojska Polskiego

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 359-367
Author(s):  
Tomasz Gajownik
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Military Intelligence ◽  
Field Station ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Second World

Polish military intelligence had prepared a lot of analysis about political and military situations in the countries around the Republic of Poland. It was a kind of belaying towards potential Polish-German conflict. The issues of the Baltic States were interested a military intelligence’s field station in Vilnius. A few months before the Second World War has begun, Vilnius’s station prepared some analysis of domestic and foreign policy of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. One of them had discussed most important consequences of occupation of Klaipeda by German’s Wehrmacht. Additionally, in these documents, one can be read about multilateral policy of the Baltic Entente.

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