Synopsis
Albert Forster and Arthur Greiser's contrasting approaches to ethnic cleansing in Poland.
- Programme: Nazis: A Warning from History
- Episode: 04: The Wild East
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1997
- History | Germany, 1890-1945 | Appeasement and the Road to War, 1918-1939 | Nazi foreign policy, 1933-38
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