During the Holocaust era Hitler and the Nazi killed about six million Jews. He believed that Jews had no more value than rats. Some Nazi that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Between 1948 and 1951 survivors from the Holocaust (almost 700,000 Jews) emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe.
Young Polish men were forcibly drafted into the German army.
The Polish language was forbidden. Only the German language was allowed.
All secondary schools and colleges were closed.
The Polish press was liquidated. Libraries and bookshops were burned.
Polish art and culture were destroyed.
Polish churches and snyagogues were burned.
Most of the priests were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
Street signs were either destroyed or changed to new German names. Polish cities and towns were renamed in German.
Ruthless obliteration of all traces of Polish history and culture
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