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population identified themselves as ethnically Polish rather than ethnically German. This result was a great disappointment for the Nazi administration.
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border. The Germans postulated a separate nationality for people of that region in an effort to extract them from the Polish citizenry during their
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signed up after having been given unlimited supplies of alcoholic drinks. They boarded a train to Trawniki, but got off the train in nearby
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Thompson, Larry V. (1967). "Nazi Administrative Conflict. The Struggle for Executive Power in the General Government of Poland 1939–1943".
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by an official letter of 5 April 1943. The failure has inevitably contributed to his dismissal on 9 November 1943 by Governor General
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embarked on a recruitment drive, with the objective being to create a brand new Waffen-SS highlander division. Some 200 young
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unit under Lieutenant Tadeusz Studziński, charged with high treason and hanged on 20 January 1945.
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in 1939. Later, the German authorities attempted to assimilate the population into the body of
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aimed at germanization of the Polish highlanders was actively opposed by the underground
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Barbara Spytkowska) as their administrative secretary. Suski was murdered at the
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next to Lublin. At the first opportunity they got into a major fistfight with
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to Podhale on 7 November 1939 they proposed to establish a separate state for
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Meyers Konversationslexikon: Band 7, Seite 518: von Göppingen bis Gordianus.
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stated, that Germans (also) lived in that area in the 11th century but were
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Peasant Goral couple depicted in a General Government stamp printed in 1944
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1939 proposal for a Goralenfolk flag (it was never officially accepted)
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Index

Gorals
General Government
occupied Poland

Hans Frank
Zakopane
German
Nazis
Goral
Podhale
Poland
Slovak
occupation of Poland's highlands
neologism
Górale
Beskid
Tatra mountains
SS
Germanisation
Poles
Gorals
slavicized

Nowy Targ County
Podhale
Germany
Invasion of Poland
Volksdeutsche
Reichsdeutscher
Witalis Wieder

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