into Germans' hands. Some Polish people were sent to work to
Germany. People often escaped from such transports and that was
the reason, why Germans bullied refugees' families and used
tortures towards them. In Germany, Poles were forced to work in
trenches.
Germans completely destroyed the social and cultural life in
Poland. During the occupation, Germans murdered many outstanding
scientists and artists. They also closed almost all of Polish schools.
In ones, which they left, they taught German and Maths. Germans
liquidated the Polish press, bookstores and libraries. They destroyed
many monuments and confiscated works of art, including monuments
of folk and sacred art, which they took away deep into Germany. The
occupiers stole from Cracow Vite Stoss' altar from St. Mary's
Basilica and one of the most popular Leonardo da Vinci's painting Lady with an Ermine from the Czartoryski Museum. From Ĺazienki
Park in Warsaw they took the monument of Fryderyk Chopin. The
robbery of the works of art lasted to the end of the occupation. But
some great works, as the