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The destruction of the Polish elite: A forgotten Holocaust? | How We Got Here

German policy in WW2 towards Poland and the Slavs in general was imperial. There was to be the herrenvolk, the master race, and the Untermensch, the slaves. The native elites were to be eliminated Poland was to be decapitated; its intelligentsia destroyed leaving a servile population A subset of the camp, KL Gusen, was constructed with one purpose in mind – to exterminate Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion campaign. The Germans even called it “the death camp for Polish intelligentsia” and killed between 27 to 35 thousand Poles here. It was only 77 years later that the Austrians decided to kick off the process of formally commemorating the execution site. It came after strong pressure from both the international community and the Polish diplomacy. The Austrian government eventually bought out the land of the former camp where the Gusen memorial was preserved and developed. The genocide of Poles at KL Gusen is often called “the German Katyń” - a reference to the 1940 Katyń Massacre carried out by the Soviet NKVD on tens of thousands of Polish officer POWs. Join Jan Darasz and his guest: Alina Nowobilska - Historian for ‘How we got here’ 🔴 Watch our 24/7 livestream - https://www.youtube.com/live/4cLYANHss8Y Bringing you all the latest daily news and updates, TVP World is Poland's first English-language channel where you can find world news as seen from the Polish perspective and the latest news from the CEE region. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. https://tvpworld.com/   / tvpworldcom     / tvpworld_com     / tvp_world   https://www.threads.net/@tvp_world https://bsky.app/profile/tvpworld.bsk...   / tvpworld.com