The Hitler’s Machtegreifung And Polish Nationalist Movement Towards ‘Jewish Question’

To understand what was happening in Polish political life in the 1930s regarding the ‘Jewish question’ one needs to look back to at least the second half of the 1920s. The early form of Polish pre -fascist organisation – not counting minuscule, insignificant groups and circles – was the Camp of Great Poland established in 1926 as a nationalist answer to Pilsudski’s coup d’etat. At the very beginning Pilsudski’s regime borrowed from Mussolini’s model, especially in rhetoric.1 But if a fascist regime was not introduced in Poland until 1935, it was because of lack of support and resistance amongst the regime’s elites and Pilsudski himself. On the other hand the semi -nationalistic climate under Pilsudski’s regime favoured the growth of real facist -style movements.