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POLAND AND THE POLISH PEOPLE DURING WORLD WAR II
Read the text and answer the following questions
1. When did World War II begin?
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2. How many Poles died during World War II?
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3. Did the occupied Poland have a collaborationist government?
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4. Where did the Polish government in-exile have its headquarters?
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5. Where did the Polish people fight during World War II (name a few locations)?
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6. What was the Polish Secret State?
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7. What activities were undertaken by the scouts under German occupation?
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8. What happened with the Polish officers arrested in 1939 by the Soviets?
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9. Which Polish city saw two anti-German uprisings?
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10. How did the Nazis punish those Polish citizens who rescued Jews?
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11. How many Righteous Among the Nations are of Polish origin?
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12. How did the Polish Secret State punish collaborators and shmaltsovniks?
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13. What reprisals were taken by the Germans against Polish civilians?
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14. Who was Witold Pilecki?
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15. Who alarmed the West – the British and the Americans – about the Holocaust? What
response did he/she receive?
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16. Where did the 303 Polish Fighter Squadron fight?
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17. Who succeeded in capturing Monte Cassino?
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18. Who set up concentration camps in the occupied Poland?
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19. What do we call the time which began in Poland after World War II?
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