On
Polish
lands,
Germans
organized
concentration camps, to which people were
the
"network"
of
directed from street
roundups. Their main goal was to obtain manpower and the theft of
property. A small amount of food, hard work and the inhuman
treatment contributed to fast dying out of prisoners.
Since the autumn of 1939, Germans
applied the policy of
terror not only towards Poles, but also towards Jews. Jews had to
wear bands with the Star of David. Jews couldn't change their
address and they also couldn't use the public transport. Germans
also closed shops run by them and took their entire belongings away.
They created ghettos - closed districts, which isolated the Jewish
population - which wasn't possible to leave under the penalty of
death. The first ghetto was built in October 1939 in Piotrków
Trybunalski. A bigger one was created one year later, in October
1940, in Warsaw. There were almost 450,000 people squeezed on a
very small area . People in the ghetto got much less food than people,
who lived outside it. Jews scale died of hunger on a large. Big number
of people on a small area and a bad sanitation were the cause of high
mortality. For the help given to Jews, Germans sentenced people to
death. Despite this, some really brave Poles tried to save Jews by
hiding them and providing food.
Germans tried to convince
Poles, insidiously or by force, to
putting their name down on the "Vollksdeutsch" list, which members
were supposed to serve Germans and be the informers. People who
didn't want to agree on it were put into prison or a concentration
camp. These people lost their jobs and were sentenced to tortures
and beating.
During the occupation "curfew" was introduced. After dusk it
was necessary to turn off the lights or tightly block the windows
out, that no one could see there's still a light in the flat. When