Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939 - 1944. by Lukas, Richard C

The University Press of Kentucky, (1986). First Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), silver letters, x, 300 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good+ dust jacket with very slight rubbing to edges. From dust jacket: The world has rightly been made aware of the fate of millions of European Jews under the Nazis’ “final solution,” but it is much less aware of what Richard C. Lukas calls the forgotten holocaust, whose victims included three million non-Jewish Poles. As this landmark study shows, the German treatment of Polish Gentiles was scarcely less barbaric than their treatment of Polish Jews, and a brotherhood of suffering existed under the German oppression that must not be forgotten.Lukas does not shy away from the controversies surrounding Polish-Jewish wartime relations. His study challenges the prevailing sterotype, offering a much-needed corrective to the myths and distortions that have flourished on this subject for too long. The result is an objective study, written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to scholar and layman alike. Historian E. H. Carr once observed that history is a great jigsaw puzzle with many missing parts. The Forgotten Holocaust gives us one of those missing parts, making a critical aspect of the history of the twentieth century more understandable.