Henryk Szatkowski
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Henryk Szatkowski was a leader of the Goralenvolk
during World War II
. A self-proclaimed ethnic German, he was a sports and tourism activist from Zakopane
who collaborated with the occupiers and fled to Germany at the end of the war.
Goralenvolk
Goralenvolk was the name given by the German Nazis in World War II during their occupation of Poland to the population of Podhale in the south near the Slovakian border. They postulated a different ethnicity for that population, in an effort to divide the Polish people. The word was derived from...
during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. A self-proclaimed ethnic German, he was a sports and tourism activist from Zakopane
Zakopane
Zakopane , is a town in southern Poland. It lies in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998 it was in of Nowy Sącz Province, but since 1999 it has been in Lesser Poland Province. It had a population of about 28,000 as of 2004. Zakopane is a...
who collaborated with the occupiers and fled to Germany at the end of the war.