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    Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands
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    Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands

    By Waldemar Lotnik, Julian Preece and Neal Ascherson

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    By any standards, Waldermar Lotnik's experience of the Second World War was remarkable. Fighting in the Polish Resistance, his unit was engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with pro-Nazi Ukrainians. Unknown in the West, this struggle was, like that raging at the same time between Serbs and Croats, provoked by the Germans arming one ethnic group and unleashing it against a rival. Lotnik described with total and sometimes frightening candour his part in a war without rules that claimed at least half a million lives. Captured by the Germans, Lotnik was taken to the Majdanek concentration camp. There he carted corpses to the crematorium and, like every inmate, fought a day-to-day battle for survival. When the camp was liberated, he volunteered for the new 'Red' Polish air force and, while training to fly, was recruited by the KGB to inform on his comrades. After deserting, he joined the Polish Home Army, which in the summer of 1945 was fighting a desperate but doomed battle against the country's new occupiers. With the Soviets' victory never seriously in doubt, he escaped to the West to begin a new life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSerif Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781909150140
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    Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands
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    Waldemar Lotnik

    Waldemar Lotnik was born in 1925 near Lublin, where he was brought up on his grandfather's farm until he was seven. His parents then fetched him to live in Kremenets, a garrison town in the Polish part of the Ukraine. After the events described in Nine Lives, he settled in London where he died in 2014. He was married with two children and four grandchildren and never has went back to Poland after fleeing the country in the summer of 1945.

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