Population includes 25.0 million Poles and 3.4 million Jews. Polish citizens were taken to Germany as forced laborers under inhuman conditions, which resulted in many deaths. [61] In terms of total numbers, the Soviet Union bore an incredible brunt of casualties during WWII. per capita, the Government General region produced only 202.7 kg. The IPN also puts the number of Polish citizens conscripted into the German armed forces at 250,000 of whom 60,000 were killed in action. This figure includes 2.9 million Jews, 2.0 million. Prior to the war the area which became the General Government was not self sufficient in agricultural production and was a net importer of food from other regions of Poland. They pointed out that Czesaw uczak estimated the total population loss at 500,000 ethnic Poles in the Soviet occupied regions. They entered the Old World to reform it but then got swallowed and broken by its enmities. The invader finds itself doing all sorts of odious things that it did not intend, but which the press of necessity (the alternative is losing) seems to command. [4], Andrzej Paczkowski puts the number of Polish deaths due to Soviet repression at 90,000100,000 of the 1.0 million persons deported and 30,000 executed by the Soviets[40], According to Zbigniew S. Siemaszko the total of those deported was 1,646,000 of whom 1,450,000 were residents and refugees (excluding POWs). [62], Criticism of 1947 Report of Polish Bureau of War Damages, The Polish government Ministry of Finance in 1951 prepared a study to investigate and detail Poland's war losses in order to document claims for war reparations from Germany. 9.462. The Soviet Union Overall, of the people killed in World War II, one-third of them were military and the rest civilians. Despite the western betrayal, If Russia had not invaded Poland in 17 September, 1939, Poland would have dragged the fighting for many more weeks. It is estimated that the war resulted in 15-20 million civilian and military death and an additional 15 million Chinese were wounded. The causes of World War 2 were complex and varied, but there are five main factors that contributed to its outbreak: Treaty of Versailles: The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement that ended World War 1 and was imposed on Germany by the Allied powers. France and the UK were also responsible for the fact that Poland did not fully mobilized its armed forces. Another nice parallel to the Biden policy is the stance that Franklin Roosevelt adopted in the two years before American entry into the Second World War. France plunged into a dark age, occupied by the Nazis with the terrible implications bombing raids, executions, deportation, murders and famine. Losses during the German occupation of Polish territory were 5.1 million persons. For most other nations, only estimates of varying reliability exist. The U.S. National Archives has a number of World War 2 Casualty resources that range across the U.S. Armed Forces as well as a number of records regarding other nations. He still wanted to stay out of the European war. Materski and Szarota page 30 -rdo: K. Bajer, Zakres udziau Polakw w walce o niepodlego na obszarze pastwa polskiego w latach 1939-1945, "Zeszyty Historyczne Stowarzyszenia onierzy Armii Krajowej", (Krakw) 1996, nr 1, s. 14 (tablica: Obliczenie liczby Polakw teoretycznie zdolnych do oporu wobec najedcw). 32,000 Jews died in Polish military. About 4,200,000 Germans died, and about 1,972,000 Japanese died. [17], D. Population Losses 1939 Campaign- Bajer estimated that 69% of the 1,230,000 human losses in Sept. 1939 were Poles. That, along with use it or lose thinking by the military staffs, provided a great impetus to the ensuing conflagration. David C. Hendricksonis president of the John Quincy Adams Society and the author of Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition(Oxford, 2018). [71] Proch published Poland's Way of the Cross in 1987 in which he estimated Poland's war dead. [4] The Institute of National Remembrance maintains that 7,500 ethnic Ukrainians were also killed during this interethnic conflict [27][46], The figure of 5.6 to 5.8 million war dead estimated by the IPN was for only the Jewish and ethnic Polish population. Back then, it was all out aid to the allies, while staying out of the war. World War II is considered the deadliest arm conflict in human history. Projections 8.000 9.000 10.000 11.000 12.000 13.000 Deaths per 1000 People. "The Polish Campaign 1939." [31] Despite this food deficit the German occupiers confiscated 27% of the agricultural output in the General Government, thus reducing the food available for the civilian population. A recent study by Rudiger Overmans, a German historian, estimated that German military casualties were 5.3 million. The civilians who died away from their home country are numbered among the civilian casualties of the host nation. In 1916, Wilson dreaded giving any commitments to the British, who pressed him to throw Americas weight behind a reasonable settlement. For all of this unimaginable suffering and destruction, Germany has never compensated Poland or the Polish people for their suffering and losses in any way beyond a few pathetic symbolic gestures. There were more than 60 million World War 2 casualties resulting in death which at the time was more than 2.5% of the overall world population. [39], E. Population Not Capable of Resistance(100% ages 114; 50% ages 1519; 30% women 20-39; 100% over 70 years and 632,000 disabled) [81], Source of figures: Bajer, Kazimierz Zakres udziau Polakw w walce o niepodlego na obszarze pastwa polskiego w latach 1939-1945, "Zeszyty Historyczne Stowarzyszenia onierzy Armii Krajowej", (Krakw) 1996 Page 14, A. Bajer uses the 1947 Bureau of War Damages figures as the base to compute his estimate of ethnic Polish war dead. The authors of the Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that "casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable". World War II is considered the deadliest arm conflict in human history. Polska 19391945. When the Soviet forces returned to Poland in 1944-1945 there was a new wave of repression of Polish citizens from all ethnic groups including 188,000 deported, 50,000 conscripted as forced labor and 50,000 arrested. The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. MLA Citation: Similar Countries Ranked by Death Rate. The Polish army managed to destroy more then one quarter of all German tanks, hundreds of armored cars and the Polish air force managed to shoot down hundreds of Germans planes. Today, Gross-Rosen is part of Poland and known as Rogoznica. Library in the U.S.). Comparison Board edit. Records are incomplete, and the Soviet control of Poland for 50 years after the war impeded independent scholarship. The Government of Russia, following a study conducted by the Russian Academy of Science in 1993, puts the deaths at 26.6 million, including about 8.66 million military deaths. The Allies responded to Wilsons posture in the same way the Ukrainians have done in the present crisis: Hello, Uncle Sam, there happens to be a war going on right now, raising the issue of aggression in the starkest terms, so dont tell us what youre going to do later on. Page 30, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum believes that "The Nazi terror was, in scholar Norman Davies's words, "much fiercer and more protracted in Poland than anywhere in Europe." With surveys, excavations, and other archaeological methods, a team led by Dawid Kobiaka (center) located a mass grave in the woods of Poland's "Death Valley.". The logic of events meant that the gap would somehow get closed. They pointed out that Czesaw uczak estimated the total population loss at 500,000 ethnic Poles in the Soviet occupied regions. Ryszard Kaczmarek, Polacy w Wehrmachcie, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakw 2010, p.412, Gerhard Reichning, Die deutschen Vertriebenen in Zahlen, Teil 1, Bonn 1995. Of the countrys total casualties, about 2.1 million were military personnel while 500,000-800,000 were civilians. 103-36 pp. Subtracting 3 million Polish Jewish victims, the report claimed 3 million non-Jewish victims of the Nazi terror, including civilian and military casualties of war. The 15-minute data visualization uses cinematic storytelling techniques to provide viewers with a fresh and dramatic perspective of a pivotal moment in history. The heaviest proportionate human losses occurred in eastern Europe where Poland lost perhaps 20 percent of its prewar population, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union around 10 percent. As a consequence of the British and French betrayel of Poland, a five year German occupation of Poland subjected Poland to enormous destruction of its industry (62% of which was destroyed), its infrastructure (84%) and loss of civilian life (16.7% of its citizens during the war). During the war he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp. Bibliography: Losses due to direct war operations, not including. Bajer calculated the estimated population losses of the 12 million ethnic Poles over the age of 15 who were capable of resistance during the German and Soviet occupation. Those basic parameters were followed until December 7, 1941. 1/87, 1987. The United States, in effect, would guarantee a future peace settlement. What were the turning points of World War II? 2022. This article provides a summarization of these estimates of Poland's human losses in the war and their causes. [53] The classification of the ethnic groups in Poland during the Second Polish Republic is a disputed topic, Tadeusz Piotrowski called the 1931 Polish census "unreliable", noting that it had underestimated the number of non-Poles[54] The official figures for nationality from the 1931 Polish census based on the mother tongue put the percentage of ethnic Poles at 68.9%, Jews 8.6% and other minority groups 22.5%., Tadeusz Piotrowski maintains that the adjusted census figures(taking religious affiliation into account) put the percentage of ethnic Poles at 64.7%, Jews 9.8% and other minority groups 25.5% of Poland's population. Everybody was operating under the cloud of having previously not supported their allies with the resolution demanded by them. Human Losses and Victims of Repression Under the Two Occupations) that estimated Poland's war dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million Poles and Jews, including 150,000 during the Soviet occupation. Clio, poor girl, is these days no longer sure of her pronouns but would still like to say, with Cassandra: You are in great danger, sir. Hello!This is my first mapping video, where i try to simulate WW2 with the help of France and UK.Hope you Enjoy! (200,000 were conscripted into the German Armed Forces, 937,000 were ethnic Germans, 272,000 were Poles involved in the Polish resistance and 815,000 were not involved in the resistance movement. Around six million Polish people died during the five year German occupation, three million Polish Jews and three million Catholic Poles. Konflikt polsko-ukraiski 1943- 1947. In many battles Poles held their ground against overwhelming German numbers, the most famous of these was the Battle of Wizna, where a single Polish infantry battalion with some 600 soldiers held out for four days against a whole German army consisting of 42,000 soldiers, almost 400 tanks and hundreds more of artillery and armored vehicles. The nations of western Europe, however great their suffering from occupation, escaped with manpower losses that were hardly comparable with those of World War I. Without quite announcing it, the United States has created a Doomsday Machine, with built-in escalatory features, on Americas ragged geopolitical frontiers. The deaths that directly resulted from the war are about 50-56 million people while about 19-28 million people died from war-related famine and diseases. Reliable statistics for the total number of Poles who died as a result of Nazi German policies do not exist. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war-what would become . The whole strategy of Poland in 1939 was based on the fact that the UK and France, which had signed defensive military alliances with Poland prior WW2, were supposed to attack Germany two weeks into the war at the latest. There were many innocent people who were just living a regular life didn't know what was about to hit them. 'Documentation remains fragmentary, but today scholars of independent Poland believe that 1.8 to 1.9 million Polish civilians (non-Jews) were victims of German Occupation policies and the war. Americas Hungary-Bashing Has Consequences. The conflict leading to the Battle of France erupted during September of 1939 in Poland where Adolf Hitler had hoped that the UK and France would acquiesce to his invasion and make peace. More ethnic Germans also died outside of Germany. Civilians captured by German police for forced labor (Poland 1941), Germanization of Polish children in Nazi-German labor camp in, Polish casualties in English language sources, Krystyna Kersten, Szacunek strat osobowych w Polsce Wschodniej. 1950 2000 2050 2100 Current Historical U.N. As part of my ongoing quest to win favor with the neoconservatives, I would also like to draw attention to another disturbing comparison: Hitlers December 11, 1941, decision to declare war on the United States. Stalin was also waiting to see whether Britain and France would eventually attack Germany. Victims of Soviet Terror- 1,800,000 deported and 750,000 released; 1,050,000 dead (15,000 Katyn; 565,000 in Labor camps; 220,000 Missing; 150,000 Died since 1955; 100,000 unaccounted for). In its fog, discerning its significance and direction is intrinsically difficult. Although Japan was heavily involved in World War II, it is estimated that only 2.5-3.1 million Japanese were killed in the war, representing only 3.5% of its pre-war population. In a section on the demographic losses he presented estimated losses with some brief observations. Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009, ISBN978-83-7629-067-6. The government of Germany reported that about 4.3 million military personnel either died or are missing and 0.5-2 million civilian deaths. The common misconception about the German invasion of Poland is that Germany basically rolled over Poland, which was helpless and unable to defend itself while Great Britain and France are remembered for having declared war on Germany and standing by their Polish ally. The original and supplementary records have since been transferred to the Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Administration located at: 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. German losses, of which the greater proportion occurred on the Eastern Front, were only slightly less severe. Obama's real legacy makes him one of the worst US presidents of all time. [17] The IPN puts the death toll of ethnic Poles under the German occupation at 2,770,000[4] and 150,000 due to Soviet repression[4]. Polish researchers of the Institute of National Remembrance have estimate about roughly 800,000 ethnic Polish victims during the German occupation including 400,000 in prisons, 148,000 killed in executions and 240,000 deaths among those deported to concentration camps,[25] including 70-75,000[26] at Auschwitz. As it was, it got closed in the traditional way. Just after the world war 1, Spanish flue spread drastically killing 50 million. History of Accounting for the War Dead from World War 2, U.S. Military World War 2 Medal of Honor Recipients, Negative Effects on the U.S. Economy Caused by World War 2, The P-51 Mustang in Europe, The need for and effects of the P-51 Mustang in the skies over Europe. [52] In a 2009 study by the Polish government affiliated Institute of National Remembrance the total deaths of ethnic Poles and Jews were estimated at 5.6 to 5.8 million persons including 150,000 in Soviet captivity. Based on the 7TP tank chassis, a fully tracked artillery tractor named C7P was developed. [66] The Ministry of Finance estimated actual losses at 5,085,000 persons, 943,000 less than the Polish government Bureau of War Damages(BOW) report of 1947. About 326,000 civilians and military personnel were left wounded. The only Medal of Honor ever awarded to a member of the US Coast Guard was during World War 2. By 1940, between 20 and 25% of the population within the Government General depended on outside relief aid. Statistical accounting broke down in both Allied and Axis nations when whole armies were surrendered or dispersed. Depending on the definitions placed on deaths or casualties that resulted from warfare or crimes against humanity by historians, the figures will vary across resources. However, as history showed, the same could not be said of the French and the British who could have easily stormed through Germany's poorly defended western borders while the bulk of the German army was busy fighting in Poland. The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive, while defending the country. [66] This study was to remain secret and not published until after the collapse of communism in Poland. Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2. Gniazdowski, Mateusz. [76], Thaddeus Piotrowski is a Polish-American sociologist. [82], B. Specifically, the fall of Communism and the opening of records in the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and other countries have helped modern historians make a better accounting of the number of civilian casualties suffered during World War 2. Please help support Dispropaganda by clicking on the "Donate" button and making a The Germans also sent three million Polish people back to the reich to be used as slaves. Unstinting aid to the allies, non-involvement in the war. [55] Based on the analysis by Tadeusz Piotrowski roughly 1.0 million Ukrainians and Belarusians and 400,000 Polish speaking Jews were misclassified as Poles in the official figures for the 1939 population. [96] The following is a list of published statistics for Polish casualties in World War II. About the Project. The Polish War casualties have been contradicted with the Polish government reporting 6.02 million deaths including 3 million ethnic Poles and 3 million Jews. In its fog, discerning its significance and direction is intrinsically difficult. Page 36. [1] Most were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. President Bidens policy is all-out economic war against Russia, with a strict red line against actual U.S. military involvement. Similar pressures will operate on the makers of American foreign policy. Mainly for this reason, estimates of total dead in World War II vary anywhere from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000a statistical difference of no small import. The UK and France Declared War" on German, and that was it. [50][51], In 1947 the communist dominated government in Poland estimated war losses at 6.0 million ethnic Poles and Jews, they did not include the losses of Polish citizens from other minorities - Ukrainians and Belarusians. )[82], The Polish government affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in 2009 estimated total war dead at between 5,620,000 and 5,820,000 persons. Losses outside Polish territory were 500,000 persons. The second reason has to do with the Polish state itself. Supporte. The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive, while defending the country. However, it is estimated that at least 6.9 million of them were killed and another 7.3 million wounded. Materski and Szarota.Page 32: Najwicej ydw polskich zgino w obozach mierci - 1 860 000. [78] Bajer's figures were used by Polish government affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) to estimate the war dead of the ethnic Polish population. D. Frymark. Within Poland, the IPN (Polish Institute of National Remembrance) places their estimated war dead between 5.6 and 5.8 million people. All victorious armies, Clausewitz says, would prefer that the enemy offers no resistance; when it does, previous intentions evaporate. This is one more item in the index of the folly of the venture, this big surprise sprung by Putin on his people, because the reason those characters didnt see it coming was that it looked just plain incoherent and crazy on its face. An additional 660,000 Jews from other countries, were transported to Auschwitz and murdered. [75], Sourced from: Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) estimates total deaths under the German occupation at 5,470,000 to 5,670,000 Jews and Poles,[7] 2,770,000 Poles,[8] 2.7 to 2.9 million Polish Jews [9] According to IPN research there were also 150,000 victims of Soviet repression.[10]. WW2 German Death Card Sterbebild Panzer Black Wrap Uniform Beret 1941 (Krakau) $37.84 + $13.18 shipping . [27] During the war the Nazi occupiers instituted the Volksliste in the Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany to register ethnic Germans in Poland. [83], D. According to Bajer's calculations the number of Polish citizens on the Volksliste was 2,224,000. Guerrilla warfare, changes in international boundaries, and mass shifts in population vastly complicated postwar efforts to arrive at accurate figures even for the total dead from all causes. War it shall be!. Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009, ISBN978-83-7629-067-6. Many Polish citizens were pressured to sign the Volksliste in order to avoid Nazi reprisals. Tell us what youre willing to do now.. The war left at least 70 million people dead or 3% of the world's population at the time. However, Czesaw uczak put the number of Poles deported to Germany at 2,826,500 [30] Although Germany also used forced laborers from all over Europe, Slavs (and especially Poles and Russians) who were viewed as racially inferior, were subjected to intensified discriminatory measures. Stanisaw Jankowiak, Wysiedlenie i emigracja ludnoci niemieckiej w polityce wadz polskich w latach 1945-1970, p.211-212, Instytut Pamici Narodowej, Warszawa 2005. Were all thinking about what Week Two will bring, but the dreaded question is what Year Two will bring. The 7TP was the most modern Polish tank at the time of the outbreak of WW2. Not only did this event signify the beginning of the World War 2 but it also started the most significant war in Modern history. [48] According to the IPN 5,437 ethnic Germans were killed in the 1939 military campaign. It began before Dawn on the 1st September as the German air force flew over Poland. 621, Grzegorz Motyka, Od rzezi woyskiej do akcji "Wisa". 0.510%. Become a member and enjoy the very best from The American Conservative in print & digital. He is a Professor of Sociology in the Social Science Division of the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. If France and Britain had not betrayed Poland in 1939, WW2 might have been prevented. Known as the Luftwaffe. Within Poland, the IPN (Polish Institute of National Remembrance) places their estimated war dead between 5.6 and 5.8 million people. Was the Russian elite all lying when they said that the idea of a full-scale Russian invasion was a fantasy of the United States, that there was no way Putin would do something so foolish, that these projections reflected a big plot by the usual suspects? However inexact many of the figures, their main import is clear. The C7P was designed to serve as a prime mover for the huge 220 mm wz.32 koda heavy mortar, in addition to serving as recovery vehicles. Bajer, Kazimierz Zakres udziau Polakw w walce o niepodlego na obszarze pastwa polskiego w latach 1939-1945, "Zeszyty Historyczne Stowarzyszenia onierzy Armii Krajowej", (Krakw) 1996 Page 11, Materski and Szarota. Figure of 2,770,000 Poles does not include 100,000 victims of massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. France, Battle of In the early dawn hours of April 9, German troops crossed the Danish border, and German warships sailed into Copenhagen 's harbour. [80] The IPN put the 1939 war dead at 360,000. All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions 2023 worldatlas.com, The Countries That Remained Neutral In WWII. Farmers were murdered during pacifications of villages. He notes that in general, the numbers declaring a particular language do not mesh with the numbers declaring the corresponding nationality. (Many Polish Jews found refuge in the Soviet Union and other countries.) [84], Source: Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. 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Of the total deaths, 21-25 million were military officers while civilians who die in the war were 50-55 million. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. An estimated 5,800,000 Poles died, which was 20 percent of Poland's prewar population. From really outstanding foundations the Americans forgot and then abandoned the ideas and principles that made them a people to be admired and copied. [33] Richard C. Lukas points out To be sure, the Poles would have starved to death if they had to depend on the food rationed to them. One in every five Poles was murdered by the Germans during WW2. The estimates for losses of the Jewish population in the Holocaust range from 2.7 million to 3.4 million persons. In 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) put the total of Jewish deaths at 2.7 to 2.9 million. [27][46], In prewar Poland about 800,000 persons were identified as ethnic Germans. . Warsaw 1947. (Total 849,000: Killed 296,000; Prisoners of War 449,000; emigrated from Poland (Sept./Oct 1939) 104,000). On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and started WW2. About 150,000 of these casualties were suffered by the French army during the German invasion and the Allied . Nothing could be further from the truth. Civilian deaths from land battles, aerial bombardment, political and racial executions, war-induced disease and famine, and the sinking of ships probably exceeded battle casualties. 1. Estimated casualties of resistance movements have been included in military figures, other victims of Nazi persecution in the civilian ones. Total. 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