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poland World War II casualties (in thousands) |
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Source:
Franciszek Proch. Poland's Way of the Cross, 1939-1945. New York: Polish
Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps, 1987,
p. 146, as cited in Piotrowski, Tadeusz. Poland's Holocaust. Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1998, p. 305.
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Losses Caused by |
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Germany |
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Soviet Union |
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War Activities |
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1940-44 |
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65 |
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Military Losses |
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Non-Jewish |
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263 |
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Jewish |
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32 |
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Civilian Losses |
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1944-45 |
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50 |
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September 1939 |
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Non-Jewish |
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450 |
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Jewish |
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50 |
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Warsaw Uprising |
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100 |
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Nazi Terror |
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Non-Jewish |
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1,795 |
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Jewish |
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2,350 |
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Soviet Terror |
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Non-Jewish |
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835 |
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Jewish |
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100 |
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Total |
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5,040 |
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1,050 |
6,090 |
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Note: Prof. Tadeusz Piotrowski's current (2005) estimates regarding the Polish WWII casualties are as follows (in millions): Poland's population in 1939
Ethnic Poles: 22.7
Jews: 3.4
Other minorities: 9.0
Total Christians: 31.7
Total Population: 35.1
Poland's WWII population losses
Jewish: 3.1
Ethnic Poles: 2.0
Other minorities: 0.5
Total: 5.6 million
Included in the above losses
At German hands: 5.150
At Soviet hands: 0.350
At Ukrainian Nationalist hands: 0.100 |
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| © Copyright 1998 by Thaddeus M. Piotrowski. All rights reserved. |
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