AHC: Polish Death Camps

Every so often the Nazi death camps are referred to as Polish death camps, ostensibly due to their location in Poland. However, some argue that the term connotes that the camps were run or constructed by Poles. This connotation is considered offensive due to the immense suffering Poland experienced at the hands of the Nazis.

With a POD after the First World War, the challenge is to have death camps created by the Polish government. The victims don't have to be Jews, but considering how widespread antisemitism was in Europe, they probably would be. Poland can have any sort of government - fascism, a military dictatorship, Marxism-Leninism etc.
 
I cant see the Poles establishing any true death camps. Partial death camps yes.

Maybe....

Scene I, The "Stab in the Back":

- Groups of armed Polish leftists rise in support of the Bolshevik invasion. Though these groups are few in number, their attacks on rear infrastructure and rear area units cause fear and confusion way out of proportion to their relatively small numbers.

- The Bolshevik field armies are defeated at the Miracle of the Vistula. The Polish armed forces then turn to the local leftists. Vicious house to house fighting develops in some industrial cities as the Polish military sweeps for leftist gunmen. Even after the sweeps, Polish security forces face snipers, booby traps, and small scale ambushes.

Scene II, The revenge:

- The Polish government over reacts and announces a social cleansing campaign against all leftwing thought- and leftwing thinkers. Police units, right wing militias and apolitical opportunistic thugs are given sanction to round up real and imagined leftists and place them in uhmm.... "protective custody".

- Several hundreds thousand real and imagined leftists are rounded up and place in “Wild” concentration camps. Hundreds are killed or "disappeared" enroute to the camps by vengeful police, militias and mobs.

- Thousands more are killed in the camps either through deliberate actions by the police / militia guards or by vigilante thugs who are allowed free access into the camps as a means to terrorize the detainees. Tens of thousands more die though deliberate neglect as food, sanitation, and medical conditions worsen.

- Eventually, the surviving inmates are “rehabilitated” and released.
 
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Toraach

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Poland can have any sort of government - fascism, a military dictatorship, Marxism-Leninism etc.
So, in 1920 the glorious workers and peasants red army liberated the opressed people of Poland and estabilished the Polish Socialist Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the Belarusians Socialist Soviet Republic and the German Socialist Soviet Republic on lands claimed and inhabitated by Poles, and many Poles labeled as enemies of the people, those are: rich peasants (kułaks), factory owners, members of inteligentsia, political activists, catholic priests, and anyone who could be dangerous but wasn't like by communists went into camps, but only some camps were located in the territories inhabitated by Poles, most were just send into nice holidays behind the arctic circle, or stepes of Kazakhstan or into other Magadan. Those camps weren't exactly "death camps", because constructing camps to just kill people on a mass scale was demed illogical by the Cheka, but still death rate and a chance to survive was very little, if one got a longer sentence.
 
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