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killed 361 gendarmes in 1943, and 584 in 1944. In Warsaw alone, ten Nazis were killed daily. From August to December 1942, the AK launched 87 attacks on the Nazi administration and members of the apparatus of terror. In 1943 this number rose radically − the AK carried out 514 attacks during the first
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camp set up at about that time for Polish prisoners. There, he gathered first-hand intelligence on the camp, and organised inmate resistance. Pilecki deliberately went out into the street during a Warsaw roundup on 19 September 1940, and was arrested by the Nazis along with other civilians. Auschwitz
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claimed at least 400 victims every day, with numbers reaching several thousand on some days. On 19 September 1942, nearly 3,000 men and women, who had been caught in massive round-ups all over Warsaw during the previous two days, were transported by train-loads to slave labour in Nazi-Germany.
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The term was also used for describing the tactic of cordoning-off of streets, and the systematic searching of buildings. For men in their 20s and 30s, the only reliable defense against being taken away by the Nazis was the possession of an identity card (called
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carried out attacks on Nazi forces and prepared lists of Nazi leaders to be eliminated for their crimes against civilians. Nazi personnel responsible for organizing roundups, such as members of local unemployment offices, the SS, SD, and
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rounded up civilians on the streets of Polish cities. The civilians arrested were in most cases chosen at random from among passers-by or inhabitants of city quarters surrounded by German forces prior to the action.
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Eugen Bollodino - worked at the unemployment office and organised roundups of Poles to be sent to Nazi labor camps. Executed by combat patrol unit DB-17 on 8 June 1944.
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Kurt Hoffman - chief of the unemployment office in Warsaw responsible for organising roundups of Poles. Executed by the AK on 9 April 1943.
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Willi Lübbert - worked at the unemployment office and organised roundups of Poles to be sent to Nazi labor camps. Executed on 1 July 1944.
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context for Muslim raids particularly to plunder and capture slaves from Western and Central Africa, also known as
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The term usually refers to the action of rounding up and arresting a number of random people. Those caught in a
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Richard C. Lukas "Forgotten Holocaust - The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944" Hippocrene Books 1997
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were either taken hostage, arrested, sent to labor camps or concentration camps, or summarily executed.
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Criticism of the Nazi practice of roundups was the theme of the most popular song of occupied Warsaw,
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on the night of December 5, 1940 were subsequently released after their documents had been checked.
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Ron Jeffery, "Red Runs the Vistula", Nevron Associates Publ.,Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand 1985
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Ron Jeffery, "Red Runs the Vistula", Nevron Associates Publ.,Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand 1985
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vernacular and later became a figurative name for any act of pillage, with its verb form
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for adoption by German families. Some − those without proper documents or carrying
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Henryk Witkowski "Kedyw okręgu warszawskiego AK w latach 1943-1944", Warszawa 1984
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Fritz Geist - chief of the unemployment office department. Killed on 10 May 1943.
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of the Polish Underground for crimes against Polish citizens during the
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According to estimates, in Warsaw alone between 1942 and 1944 the Nazi
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Fighting Auschwitz: the Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp
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Poles in the part of Poland that they occupied following the 1939
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Most people who were rounded up were transported to labour camps (
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EUGENIUSZ DURACZYŃSKI "WOJNA I OKUPACJA", Wiedza Powszechna 1974
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in other occupied countries as well, particularly in northern
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Kedyw okręgu Warszawskiego Armii Krajowej w latach 1943- 1944
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Hugo Dietz - Hoffmann's assistant. Executed on 13 April 1943.
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roundup, 8 September 1939 – Polish civilian being guarded by
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In retribution for roundups as acts of Nazi terror, the
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Victims of roundup, transit camp at Szwoleżerów Street
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History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary
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German camps in occupied Poland during World War II
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Forced labour under German rule during World War II
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Index

Lapanka

Warsaw
Żoliborz
Nazi-occupied Europe
Nazi occupied Poland
World War II


Polish
World War II
German
occupied Poland
SS
Wehrmacht
Gestapo
slave labour in Nazi Germany
ethnic-cleansing

sardonic
tag
Ron Jeffery

(pl)
Warsaw
Arbeitslager
Auschwitz
sexual slavery
kidnapped
contraband

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