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Polish Society Under German Occupation - The Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944 (Paperback)
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Polish Society Under German Occupation - The Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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By combining historical and political analysis with a sophisticated
sociological approach, Jane Gross offers a new itnerpretations of
the German occupation of Poland during World War II. Based on his
hypothesis that a society cannot be destroyed by coercion short of
the physical annihilation of its members, his work has a twofold
aim; to examine the model of German occupation in theory and in
practice, and to identify the patterns of collective behavior that
emerged among the Polish people in response to the social control
exercised over them. The author argues taht when an occupier
provdies no institutions through which a lcoal population can at
least minimally satisfy its social needs, the subjugated populace
builds substituted institutions on the remnants of previous forms
of its collective life. These substitutes constitute the society's
self-defense, to which the occupier must in some way adjust if its
goals of manipulation and exploitation are to be achieved.
Professor Gross points out numerous ways in which the Poles under
the General gouvernement circumvented the goals and authority of
the German occupiers. Most significant was the emergence of the
Polish underground, which took on the leadership, social welfare,
political, and financial functions of an independent state. This
phenomenon, he concludes, shows that resistance should not be
conceived merely as a military movement but rather as a complex
social phenomenon. Jan Tomasz Gross is Assistant Professor of
Sociology at Yale University. Originally published in 1979. The
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