Gross begins the English version of '' Fear '' with a chapter summarizing the devastation of Poland during World War II , including the physical destruction of Poland 's Jews ; the initial partition of the country between Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler ; the subsequent Nazi crimes ; the Katyn massacre of Polish army officers by the Soviets ; the Warsaw uprising of 1944 ; the Soviet decision to postpone their advance until the German army had defeated the Polish Armia Krajowa , which resulted in the total destruction of Warsaw and the abandonment of Poland by Britain and America at the Yalta Conference , knowingly consigning it to Soviet communist domination
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz