Hitler instigated a policy of murdering or suppressing the ethnic Polish elites: including religious leaders.

Most of the Polish elites also left during 1920s and 1930s while Polish leaders who remained were sent to concentration camps.

Polish elites were decimated and over half of Polish intelligentsia were murdered.

It organised the mass murder of Polish elites in Operation Tannenberg.

A rivalry developed between the new German elites and the older Polish elites.

Among the first to be murdered were the professors of the city's universities and other members of Polish elite (intelligentsia).

This whole economy of Polish elites resulted in bankruptcies and poverty.

The Polish political elite is wrapped up in nonsensical discussions and chasing collaborators with the former communist regime 20 years after it collapsed.

Many university professors, along with teachers, lawyers, intellectuals and other members of the Polish elite, were arrested and executed.

He introduced members of Polish elite to the yacht sport.