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Fuck me, that's horrendous.
I'm not really a WW2 buff beyond the key turning points of the war, but can someone point me in the direction of some good starting points for this sort of purge-style activity - as in not "Google WW2 hurrr"?
I feel it's something I really should know about but I don't.
For the Soviets in Poland
Pre-WW2 if you have an interest
For the Nazis lesser-known crimes
Absolute legend, thank you. I'll check them out.
Wiki is unacceptable as an academic source, but indispensable as a jumping-off point for casual investigation of a subject. Especially if the article links to primary sources!
Something I personally can suggest is(assuming you live in Europe) starting research about how your city was affected by WW2. I learned quite a lot about WW2 and the General time just by that. Great for this is your local Archive. They also should have primary sources.
Fantastic idea, thank you. I work out of some old airfields from time to time so no doubt they'll be a great source of information. Cheers for the advice.
It's pretty in depth given the scale and number of episodes, but the WWII YouTube channel has a series called War Against Humanity: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4cwI-ZuDoBLxVEV3egWKoM&si=DEDPzd3g9_Paql0h
I was also going to post them, they are invaluable.
I always make sure to bring up the - criminally under discussed - genocide of the Romani (often referred to as gypsy) people when people are discussing the Nazi's genocides.
Approximately half of the entire Romani population of Europe were executed.