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Poland Bureau of War Damages (BOW). Statement on war losses and damages of Poland in 1939–1945. [61] Total Population of ethnic Poles and Polish Jews (only) in 1939 A. 27,007,000: Causes of human losses (% of total) % Direct war operations B. 644,000: 10.7% Murdered in the extermination camps, executions, liquidation of ghettos: 3,577,000: 59.3%
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [h] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
Poland 1939: 16,343: 320 Norway 1940: 4,975: 691 West until May 31, 1944: ... The following is a list of published statistics for German casualties in World War II. ...
The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II.Following the German–Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on 17 September.
Najsarek has been described as the first Polish combat casualty of the battle and perhaps of the war. [27]: 101 [29] [30]: 140 At 06:22, the German marines frantically radioed the battleship that they had sustained heavy losses and were withdrawing. Casualties were approximately fifty Germans and eight Poles, mostly wounded. [31]
Part of Invasion of Poland, World War II: ... 31 August 1939, and the German plan. ... German casualties are estimated at 8,000 dead. [2]
German forces included 69 Infantry and 14 Panzer divisions comprising 1,250,000 men. Polish losses were estimated in 1947 by the Polish government to be 66,300 killed and 133,700 wounded. German casualties based on statistics collected during the war were 10,570 KIA, 30,322 WIA and 3,469 MIA. [1]
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, Nazi Germany carried out a number of atrocities involving Polish prisoners of war (POWs). During that period, the Wehrmacht is estimated to have mass-murdered at least 3,000 Polish POWs, with the largest atrocities being the Ciepielów massacre of 8 September 1939 (~300 victims ...