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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.
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.
One of the Soviet Union's earliest and largest crimes against prisoners of war occurred in the aftermath of the invasion. After the fighting ended, the Soviet Union ended up with several hundred thousands of Polish prisoners of war. Some escaped, were transferred to German custody, or released, but 125,000 were imprisoned in camps run by the ...
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.
The Wehrmacht entering the suburbs of Czestochowa. The Regimental headquarters, located 20 km south of the city, received a report on the evening of 4 September from the German units of the 42nd Regiment (46th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)), [4] alleging that they had been attacked by "Polish partisans" in two different incidents; one in the courtyard of the Technical School where the regiment ...
The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Łódź is a 1982 documentary film that uses archival film footage and photographs to narrate the story of one of the Holocaust's most controversial figures, Chaim Rumkowski, a Jew put in charge of the Łódź ghetto by the German occupation authorities during World War II.
It was not until a few or even many years after the war that the actions committed during the Józefów Massacre were investigated. Major Trapp, the leader of the unit, and three other men were brought to Poland for trial in 1947, and executed for murder of 74 Polish citizens. [23] The killing of Jews was not mentioned in their trial.
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]