Polish word senses marked with topical category "World War II"
Parent categories: Historical events, History of Europe, War, History, Europe, Conflict, Military, Violence, Earth, Eurasia, Human behaviour, Society, Nature, Human
Total 40 word senses
- AK (Proper name) Abbreviation of Akcja Katolicka.
- Armia Czerwona (Proper name) Red Army (name of the Soviet army)
- Armia Krajowa (Proper name) Home Army (dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II)
- Armia Ludowa (Proper name) People's Army (communist Soviet-backed partisan force set up by the communist Polish Workers' Party (PPR) during World War II)
- Auschwitz (Proper name) Auschwitz (concentration camp)
- Auschwitz-Birkenau (Proper name) Auschwitz-Birkenau (the largest of the three subcamps of the Auschwitz concentration camp)
- Generalna Gubernia (Proper name) General Government (a former occupation zone in Europe)
- Generalne Gubernatorstwo (Proper name) General Government (a former occupation zone in Europe)
- Holocaust (Proper name) Holocaust (mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the Nazi Germany)
- Holokaust (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Holocaust
- II wojna światowa (Proper name) World War II
- Shoah (Proper name) Shoah (mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the Nazi Germany)
- Szoa (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Shoah
- Szoah (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Shoah
- Treblinka (Proper name) Treblinka (death camp)
- U-Boot (Noun) U-boat (any German submarine of the First or Second World War, or any Austro-Hungarian submarine of the First World War)
- Westerplatte (Proper name) Westerplatte (a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland)
- aliancki (Adjective) Allies; Allied (the military faction of World War Two)
- aliant (Noun) ally (representative of the military faction of World War Two)
- blitzkrieg (Noun) blitzkrieg (fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support)
- blokowy (Noun) prisoner supervising a block
- czapa (Noun) execution by firing squad
- czerwonoarmista (Noun) Red Army man (the lowest military rank of the Red Army)
- dipis (Noun) displaced person (term used by the Allies for people who as a result of the war, found themselves outside their country and want to either return to their country or find a new homeland, but without assistance cannot do so)
- dirlewangerowiec (Noun) member of the Dirlewanger Brigade
- druga wojna światowa (Proper name) Alternative spelling of II wojna światowa.
- getto (Noun) ghetto (isolated community, governed by its own laws, hostile towards outsiders)
- godzina W (Noun) "W" Hour (codename for the date and time that began Operation Tempest in German-occupied Warsaw, and hence the Warsaw Uprising)
- goliat (Noun) Goliath tracked mine
- kampania wrześniowa (Proper name) Invasion of Poland, Polish Campaign, September Campaign (joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II)
- kapo (Noun) kapo (prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor)
- kenkarta (Noun) Kennkarte (identity card for non-German citizens valid in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II)
- konspiracja (Noun) Polish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation in World War II
- krematorium (Noun) crematorium (building with ovens used by the Nazis to destroy the bodies of people subjected to mass extermination in concentration camps)
- krowa (Noun) Nebelwerfer (World War II German series of mortar weapons)
- pantera (Noun) type of German tank used in World War II
- powstanie w getcie warszawskim (Proper name) Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps)
- powstanie warszawskie (Proper name) Warsaw Uprising (major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation)
- westerplatczyk (Noun) defender of Westerplatte in September 1939
- wielka wojna ojczyźniana (Proper name) Great Patriotic War (portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945)
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