Hard life of Poles under the German occupation
Since the first days of the occupation, Poles were in a very
difficult financial situation. As a result of exchange of money, they
lost the majority of their pre-war savings. Wages were very low - we
can say that completely out of proportion to the cost of the upkeep.
In the country, the "black market" was evolving, where prices were
even higher. German authorities set food rationing. The nazzi’s policy
caused permanent undernourishment of Poles, who had almost three
times lower caloric standards than the current ones.
One of the main German prisons in Warsaw was Pawiak. During
the occupation, there were about 100,000 of Poles - almost 37,00 of
them were killed. Many of those arrested people were deported to
the concentration camps. Interrogations of prisoners were held in
abodes of the Gestapo and tortures and deaths during investigations
were something normal. In the spring of 1940 in Palmiry, a town in
the
suburbs
of
Warsaw,
the
Germans
executed
thousands
representatives of Polish scholars.
The process of displacing the Polish population by the Germans
was started after the defeat of 1939. Poles had to leave their land,
possessions, which became henceforth the property of hosts
imported from Germany, which were being called 'the bauers'. In
this way the major part of the property of the displaced people got