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The following is a list of published statistics for Polish casualties in World War II. Encyclopedia Britannica article "World Wars" (2010) Military-killed, died of wounds or in prison-123,718; wounded-236,606; prisoners or missing 420,760; civilian deaths due to war 5,675,000.
21,857 confirmed by Soviet documents, about 440 of the prospective victims escaped the shootings. After intense research, today most of the victims are known name by name. Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz: 31 July 1940 Olkusz Nazi Germany: 20 Polish civilians NKVD prisoner massacres in Poland: June–November 1941 Eastern Poland Soviet Union: 20,000 ...
"Over the course of 1943, perhaps ten thousand Ukrainian civilians were killed by Polish self-defence units, Soviet partisans, and German police." [38] Timothy Snyder — — — about 5k "All told, in the Lublin and Rzeszow regions, Poles and Ukrainians killed about five thousand of the other's civilians in 1943–44." [39] Grzegorz ...
Pages in category "Polish civilians killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 245 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Polish military personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 349 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The "cursed soldiers" [3] (also known as "doomed soldiers", [4] "accursed soldiers", or "damned soldiers"; Polish: żołnierze wyklęci) or "indomitable soldiers" [5] (Polish: żołnierze niezłomni) were a heterogeneous array of anti-Soviet-imperialist and anti-communist Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and in its aftermath by members of the Polish ...
Wanda Nowoisiad-Ostrowska, quoted by historian Tadeusz Piotrowski (The Polish Deportees of World War II), remembered that Abercorn camp was divided into six sections of single-room houses, a washing area, a laundry, a church, and four school buildings with seven classes. The cooking was done in a large kitchen situated in the middle.