Hitler's War Against Polish Culture

The situation in Poland, much like the brutal fighting that took place on the Eastern Front, was based on ideology. While they viewed the British as an enemy, the Germans did not seek to remove the concept of "Britain" from human memory. The war in the West has been referred to as having been much mire "civilized" than the one in the East. Compared to the war in the West, the situation in Poland was quite brutal. France and Holland, for example, did not suffer the civilian casualties that their eastern allies did. Author Richard C. Lukas points out in his book Forgotten Holocaust that "Frenchmen or Belgians were not rounded up and shot in street roundups as Poles were for little or no reason." (34) The Poles had reason to fear-while their land made them targets for German aggression, their ethnicity marked them for total annihilation.

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