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    The term łapanka, derived from the Polish verb łapać ("to catch"), carried a sardonic connotation due to the prior use of the word łapanka for the children's...
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    of occupied cities during German military and police round ups called łapanka in Polish or rafle in French. The Foreign Ministry of the Polish Government...
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  • streets of Polish cities, the non-Jewish population was targeted by the łapanka policy, in which Nazi forces indiscriminately rounded up, kidnapped and...
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  • counter-attacks against the invading German troops. Mass executions of łapanka hostages were conducted every single day during the Wehrmacht advance across...
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  • SD personnel during a łapanka (random arrest) in occupied Poland...
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    gentiles and Jewish civilians forcibly abducted in occupied countries (see Łapanka) to provide labor in the German war industry, repair bombed railroads and...
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    demands for forced labor. East European women were also kidnapped, via lapanka, to serve as sex slaves of German soldiers in military and camp brothels...
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  • Dave Catching (born 1961), American musician Catching, one translation of łapanka (also rafle), a Nazi German practice of random arrests in Polish cities...
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    of them held civilians forcibly abducted in the occupied countries (see Łapanka for Polish context) to provide labour in the German war industry, repair...
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    camps held civilians forcibly abducted in the occupied countries (see Łapanka) to provide labour in the German war industry, repair bombed railroads...
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    held Jewish civilians forcibly abducted in the occupied countries (see Łapanka) to provide labor in the German war industry, repair bombed railroads and...
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    of underground education. Ethnic Poles in Poland were targeted by the łapanka policy which German forces utilized to indiscriminately round up civilians...
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    the illusion that they were transit points for deportations to the east. Lapanka is Polish for "roundup" and in this situation refers to the widespread...
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    family as possible. Enforced disappearance – Unlawful secret disappearance Łapanka – World War II roundups by Germans in Poland Shootout – Combat between...
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    Street round-up (Polish łapanka [waˈpanka]) of random civilians to be deported to Germany for forced labour; Warsaw's Żoliborz district, 1941...
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    September 1940 he deliberately went out during a Warsaw street roundup (łapanka) and was caught by the Germans, along with some 2,000 innocent civilians...
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  • used by the Germans also to combat smuggling and resistance, to round up łapanka, random civilians, for forced labor, and to apprehend Jews (German: Judenjagd...
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    Italian. They were sometimes taken willingly, more frequently as a result of lapanka in Polish, or rafle in French language, in which people were collected...
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    against the invading German troops. Mass executions of roundup (Polish: łapanka) hostages were conducted every single day during the Wehrmacht advance...
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    on 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a street roundup (łapanka) in Warsaw and was caught by the Germans along with other civilians and...
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    of the controversy. History of Poland (1939–45) The Holocaust in Poland Łapanka Potulice concentration camp Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles Operation...
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    in Germany Non-Jewish ethnic Poles in large cities were targeted by the łapanka policy which the German occupiers utilized to indiscriminately round up...
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    tree Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pawiak. Paweł Finder Gęsiówka Łapanka Mokotów Prison War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II Chronicles...
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    particularly strong in some variants, was the description of German practice of łapanka, the street round-ups of random passers-by. The song was reprinted in several...
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  • Nazi human experiments The Generalplan Ost, including the Pabst Plan: Łapankas or "Catching Roundups", – Nazi roundups of Poles, usually completely random...
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    Poland. Once in power in Warsaw, he increased the number of roundups (łapanka) of Polish citizens and the number of hostage executions. Every day lists...
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    Known as a łapanka, the term usually refers to the action of rounding up and arresting a number of random people. Those caught in a łapanka were either...
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  • Bydgoszcz's Old Market Square of civilians randomly caught in a street roundup (łapanka in Polish) on 9 September 1939 (historical photo from Jastrzębski 1974)...
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    Pilecki had allowed himself to be captured by Germans in a street round up (łapanka) with the goal of having himself sent to Auschwitz to gather information...
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  • September 1940 he deliberately went out during a street roundup in Warsaw-łapanka, and was caught by the Germans along with other civilians and sent to Auschwitz...
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