Because the Nazis saw them as an inferior race. Although the Poles didn't suffer as much as the Jews, German hatred against Poland was rampant.
Many Wehrmacht units engaged in massacres of Polish civilians during the 1939 September Campaign. Afterwards, the Einsatzgruppen murder squads began the elimination of the Polish elite (scholars, teachers, librarians, professors etc.)
In fact, many Nazi officials sought the extermination of the entire Polish population. SS-Reichfuhrer Heinrich Himmler stated "All Poles will disappear from the earth"
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The Holocaust happened mostly in Poland from 1941-1945, during WWII
In Poland, during the time of the Holocaust and when the Nazis were taking over Poland and other countries around Germany.
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Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.
The largest of the death camps during the holocaust was Auschwitz, in Poland.
It was auscwhitz in poland
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poland
The Holocaust happened mostly in Poland from 1941-1945, during WWII
In Poland, during the time of the Holocaust and when the Nazis were taking over Poland and other countries around Germany.
Poland
About 90% of them - that is over 2.9 million - were slaughtered in the Holocaust.
different borders were drawn.
Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.
Treblinka was a Nazi death camp on the northern part of Poland during the Holocaust.
Just before the Holocaust that ranged from a small fraction of 1% in Denmark to about 10% in Poland.