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Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, [3] along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, [4] included the genocide of millions of Polish people, especially the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles.
The crimes committed in Wąsosz were investigated by the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, [13] under the direction of IPN prosecutor Radosław Ignatiew, who earlier investigated the atrocities in Jedwabne. [14] In 2014, Polish Jewish leaders were reportedly divided regarded exhumation of the bodies of the Jewish victims.
During World War II, three million Polish Jews (90% of the prewar Polish-Jewish population) were killed due to Nazi German genocidal action. At least 2.5 million non-Jewish Polish civilians and soldiers perished. [14] One million non-Polish Jews were also forcibly transported by the Nazis and killed in German-occupied Poland. [15]
Polish nationalists 300 Jews Pogrom halted after intervention by German army in favor of the Jews. Additional 100 Jews killed in July by Poles. The Jews were subsequently murdered by the Germans. 1941 Białystok massacres: 27 June, 3–4 July, 12–13 July 1941 Białystok Nazi Germany: 6,500–7,000 Jews Dobromil massacre 30 June 1941 Dobromil
Most of those atrocities are classified as war crimes of the Wehrmacht. [9] As a prelude to The Holocaust, Polish POWs of Jewish origin were routinely selected and shot on the spot. [9] [11] Those who survived were imprisoned with the other soldiers, but eventually separated from the ethnic Poles through racial screenings.
The Black Book is a collection of authenticated documents, depositions, eye-witness accounts, and Ministerial summaries, describing and illustrating with photographs, the Nazi crimes against the Polish nation and War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II committed in mere two years: including massacres, tortures, expulsions, forced colonization, persecution, destruction of culture, and ...
During World War II, Jews in Poland suffered the worst percentage loss of life compared to all other national and ethnic groups. The vast majority were civilians. On average, 2800 Polish citizens died per day during its occupation. [240]
The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. [4] Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive.