I have a couple of questions about Poland around the time of the Second World War.

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  1. How commonplace was anti-Semitism in general opinion and in the law prior to Nazi occupation?
  2. How commonplace was misogyny in general opinion and in the law prior to Nazi occupation, and after the occupation?
  3. What sort of influence did the Catholic Church have in pre-war Poland? Did the Nazis suppress this?
  4. Did Poland have any treaties or agreements with countries prior to the Second World War?
  5. As a whole, what sort of lifestyle did the Polish people lead before the occupation? Was there much technology? How rich did they tend to be? How did this change when the Nazis invaded? Was rationing implemented?

I've asked quite a lot of questions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, da3m0ny

-Xotl

You have asked questions so broad that any attempt to answer this post would require tens of thousands of words: it would be easier to say "read God's Playground Volume II or Biskupski’s The History of Poland (which is simple and focuses on later Poland). You really, really need to narrow down not just the number of questions but the scope of most of them. Poland and anti-Semitism has a mountain of scholarship behind it. "What sort of lifestyle did the Polish lead"--I don't even know where to begin. The only one simple to answer is #4, the answer to which is "Yes", but logically extending that to "Tell me about all of Poland's pre-WWII diplomatic agreements" would leave us here all week.

Pick one question, make it more precise than #4 while removing as many subquestions as possible within it (e.g. the influence of Catholicism in pre-war Poland and how the Nazis treated Catholicism in occupied Poland are two different topics), and you're likely to get some useful information. Cheers.