The changing borders and ethnic composition of Poland as well as vast population movements during and after the war also complicated the task of calculating losses In the past, many estimates of losses were based on a Polish report of 1947 requesting reparations from the Germans; this often cited document tallied population losses of 6 million for all Polish "nationals" (Poles, Jews, and other minorities). [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). [13] Over a million Jews deported from Western countries to camps and ghettos set up in occupied Poland perished in the Holocaust. 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. 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. 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). Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. Only for the United States and the British Commonwealth can official figures showing killed, wounded, prisoners or missing for the armed forces be cited with any degree of assurance. One of the great pleasures of historical study is that it allows students to cast away the sorry stupid world in which they live, and instead enter the domain of lost civilizations that contain episodes of outstanding human endeavor and accomplishment. Page 36. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami.[76]. "[34] To supplement the meager rations allocated by the Germans, Poles depended on the black market in order to survive. Bibliography: "Dispropaganda" - An independent and politically unbiased website which strives to tell historical, political and contemporary, unfashionable, hidden truths through the use of satire and humor. 621, Grzegorz Motyka, Od rzezi woyskiej do akcji "Wisa". Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. American war planners knew in 1941 that Germany was the primordial threat, but American public opinion had resided for two years in the same anomalous state as we find today in Ukraine policy. They did this for 8 months until Germany invaded France on May 8, 1940. POLSKA 1939-1945 STRATY OSOBOWE I OFIARY REPRESJI POD DWIEMA OKUPACJAMI. uczak authored Polska i Polacy w drugiej wojnie wiatowej (Poland and Poles in the Second World War). They teach that the fervent desire to stay out of war may succumb in time to what Jefferson called the chapter of accidents. Were just in Week One of the new world aborning, not fully conscious of all the tumbling dominos to follow. When he did declare war, it was a huge relief to the Roosevelt Administration, which instantly telegraphed, with the delight of having been won over by a dark seducer: Me too! 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. 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 (This article is available in Polish libraries and at the Stanford Univ. MLA Citation: Similar Countries Ranked by Death Rate. From really outstanding foundations the Americans forgot and then abandoned the ideas and principles that made them a people to be admired and copied. contribution. German losses, of which the greater proportion occurred on the Eastern Front, were only slightly less severe. . The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive, while defending the country. Estimated figures for World War II casualties are divergent and contradictory. [17], C. Ethnic Polish population includes 435,000 Polish speaking Jews. He notes that in general, the numbers declaring a particular language do not mesh with the numbers declaring the corresponding nationality. They were wrong, and the whole world would be made to pay the price for their dishonor and cowardice. They did not provide figures for the death toll of Polish citizens from the other ethnic minorities. Updates? [27][28] Many mass executions took place outside prisons and camps such as the Mass murders in Pianica. An estimated 5,800,000 Poles died, which was 20 percent of Poland's prewar population. (The number is probably higher if we add all those who died at the hands of the Ukrainian Nationalists. '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. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war-what would become . [80] The IPN put the 1939 war dead at 360,000. It is reminiscent in the first instance of Woodrow Wilsons call for a League of Nations in 1916 and 1917, when he was still determined to stay out of the European war. In Warsaw, between 1942 and 1944, there were approximately 400 daily victims of apankas. In order to receive the medal, the individual must have put their own life at risk while performing beyond the call of duty against an enemy of the U.S. Based on the nature of the medal it is commonly awarded posthumously (after death). Ethnic Polish losses are currently estimated in the range of 2 million. Become a member and enjoy the very best from The American Conservative in print & digital. 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Around 250,000 of France's 600,000 deaths were military personnel. This was later corroborated by a top German General, Alfred Jodl, who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (and the man speaking to Hitler in the picture), who stated at the Nuremberg trials that: Dispropaganda is 100% independent non partisan and non profit, in order to keep the site up we rely on financial supprt from our readers. A recent study by Rudiger Overmans, a German historian, estimated that German military casualties were 5.3 million. [17], B. 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? The authors of the Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that "casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable". [96] The following is a list of published statistics for Polish casualties in World War II. Most Polish citizens who perished in the war were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. War, perhaps more than any other human endeavor, brings with it historical memories and comparisons. About 4,200,000 Germans died, and about 1,972,000 Japanese died. The 1947 Report of the Polish Bureau of War Damages considered only Poles and Jews in the 1939 population, other minorities were not included with the losses. [71] Proch published Poland's Way of the Cross in 1987 in which he estimated Poland's war dead. Projections -2.00 -1.00 0.00 1.00 Annual % Change. When the Germans invaded Poland, the Poles were only 50% fully mobilized. It is estimated that the Soviet Union lost 27 million military and civilians in World War II. Of the total deaths, 3-4 million were military personnel and the rest were civilians. Around 6 million Polish citizens perished during World War II: about one fifth of the pre-war population. How Many Countries Are Recognized By The United States. An additional 660,000 Jews from other countries, were transported to Auschwitz and murdered. According to the figures published by the Polish government in exile in 1941 the ethnic Polish population was 24,388,000 at the beginning of the war in September 1939. Figure of 2,770,000 Poles does not include 100,000 victims of massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. Why was Poland so weak in ww2? Page 20. The United States, in effect, would guarantee a future peace settlement. Western technological advances had turned upon itself, bringing about the most destructive war in human . It is estimated that the war resulted in 15-20 million civilian and military death and an additional 15 million Chinese were wounded. On the 3 September 1939 France and Great Britain declare war against Germany, after the invasion of Poland. The table contains what appear to be the best available statistics on armed forces casualties of all types resulting from battle, of civilian deaths from war-related causes, and estimated total deaths in each of the major nations involved in World War II. During the war 522,149 ethnic Germans from other nations were settled in Poland by the Third Reich. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. 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. Those two examples, forgotten preludes to Americas entry into the two world wars, are disturbing because they suggest that one thing leads to another. That, along with use it or lose thinking by the military staffs, provided a great impetus to the ensuing conflagration. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami. The figures are uczak's estimates. [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. Warsaw[68], Franciszek Proch was a Polish lawyer and journalist. If in the unlikely event he proves to be a genius rather than an idiothe knows Ukraine a lot better than the Americans knew Iraqit is unlikely to alter the conclusion that he has committed a crime. WWI lasted for 4 years; from 1914 to 1918. 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. This figure was disputed when the communist system collapsed by the Polish historian Czesaw uczak who put total losses at 6.0 million; 3.0 million Jews, 2.0 million ethnic Poles, and 1.0 million Polish citizens from the other ethnic groups not included in the 1947 report on war damages. Ludnosc Polski w XX wieku / Andrzej Gawryszewski. This study was prepared for a conference on war reparations from Germany. 0.510%. As time moves on, and previously closed records become released the full toll of World War 2 on the civilian populations has become better recognized. Country (and successor state) Military. Assessments and Estimatesan Outline The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 2007, no. By 1940, between 20 and 25% of the population within the Government General depended on outside relief aid. The estimates for losses of the Jewish population in the Holocaust range from 2.7 million to 3.4 million persons. [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]. They did not provide a detailed population balance showing how the figures were derived. They pointed out that Czesaw uczak estimated the total population loss at 500,000 ethnic Poles in the Soviet occupied regions. The UK and France Declared War" on German, and that was it. Within Poland, the IPN (Polish Institute of National Remembrance) places their estimated war dead between 5.6 and 5.8 million people. "Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod okupacj niemieck", "Polish Resistance and Conclusions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC", Andrzej Gawryszewski LUDNO POLSKI W XX WIEKU POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK NSTYTUT GEOGRAFII I PRZESTRZENNEGO ZAGOSPODAROWANIA IM. Population of 35.339 million includes about 240,000 in Polish annexed Zaolzie area around esk Tn. In its fog, discerning its significance and direction is intrinsically difficult. The Polish Bureau of War Damages report of 1947 put Jewish losses at 3.4 million; in a subsequent report to the United Nations this figure was 3.2 million Jewish dead, thus reducing the total to 5.8 million. Just after the world war 1, Spanish flue spread drastically killing 50 million. Second world war, world war two, the great patriotic war. 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. Note: The number in parentheses indicates a negative amount (a negative balance)Source of figures: Kazimierz Piesowicz, Demograficzne skutki II wojny swiatowej Studia Demograficzne, No. [14][15][16] The Nazi death camps located in Poland are sometimes incorrectly described as Polish death camps. 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. Poles in rural areas and small towns were also conscripted for forced labor by the German occupiers. It began before Dawn on the 1st September as the German air force flew over Poland. Dane te zostay uzupenione o wyliczenia z innych rde. China is destroying our world, and no one seems to mind. "No Simple Victory"." In 1940 the tuberculosis rate among Poles, not including Jews, was 420 per 100,000 compared to 136 per 100,000 prior to the war. No one knew it at the time, but Hitler had taken the decision all by his little lonesome. Back then, it was all out aid to the allies, while staying out of the war. In all, the scale of human losses during World War II was vast. 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. Figures rounded to thousands (and this device has been employed in all cases for total deaths) are estimates of varying reliability while omissions in any category indicate that any estimate would be the wildest of conjectures. Whatever it proves to be, it will show yet again that what an occupying army does is basically a function of the defiance it meets. 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." China primary fought Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. 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. Tens of thousands of ethnic Germans were killed during the Nazi evacuation from Poland in 1944 and 1945, and as a result of repression NKVD and Red Army or died in post war internment camps. The Soviet Union Overall, of the people killed in World War II, one-third of them were military and the rest civilians. Wars entire domain, as it were, is enveloped in falsehood. 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. 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.". World War II is considered the deadliest arm conflict in human history. Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009, ISBN978-83-7629-067-6. [58][59][60], A. WW2, on the other hand, lasted 6 whole years, from 1939 to 1945. Were going to smash all resistance, yet not kill civilians. 2000 2050. In 1987 the Polish Academy of Science journal Studia Demograficzne published an article by Kazimierz Piesowicz that analyzed the demographic balance from Poland from 1939-1950. [4] Poland's losses by geographic area include about 3.5 million within the borders of present-day Poland, and about two million in the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union. Each sailor or marines service number, rank, rate, casualty code, and date of casualty are listed. The Germans also sent three million Polish people back to the reich to be used as slaves. Norman Davies. 32,000 Jews died in Polish military. A table that details estimated deaths by country is available here. What happen during second word war with Poland vs Germany, similar conflict seen in Russia Vs Ukraine. In the post war era he resided in Germany and the United States. The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive, while defending the country. It is said that in less than a week after . The official Polish government report on war damages prepared in 1947 put Poland's war dead at 6,028,000; 3.0 million ethnic Poles and 3.0 million Jews not including losses of Polish citizens from the Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnic groups. Members of ethnic minority groups believe that the language criterion led to an overestimation of Poles. The United States went to war. In East Asia, the victims of famine and pestilence in China are to be numbered in the millions, in addition to other millions of both soldiers and civilians who perished in battle and bombardment. The Polish army fought very well, even though it was vastly outnumbered and heavily outgunned. [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. Statistics for Polish World War II casualties are divergent and contradictory. This figure includes forced labor in Germany as well as in the USSR. [27][46], In prewar Poland about 800,000 persons were identified as ethnic Germans. [48] The IPN did not estimate the death toll of Polish citizens from these ethnic minorities. There are no reliable figures for the casualties of the Soviet Union and China, the two countries in which casualties were undoubtedly greatest. The invation is also known in Poland as the September campaign ( Polish: kampania wrzeniowa) or 1939 defensive war (Polish: wojna obronna 1939 roku) and known in Germany as the Poland campaign ( German: berfall auf Polen, Polenfeldzug ). [47], According to the figures published by the Polish government in exile in 1941 there were about 7.0 million Polish citizens from ethnic minorities at the beginning of the war in September 1939, mostly Ukrainians, Belarusians, Polishchuks and Lithuanians living in the eastern regions of Poland annexed by the USSR. 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. How Putin and Donald Tusk covered up what caused the Polish presidential plane crash in 2010. Omissions? In 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) put the total of Jewish deaths at 2.7 to 2.9 million. The scale of Chinas involvement in World War II was massive and was considered one of the big four at the end of the conflict. The 15-minute data visualization uses cinematic storytelling techniques to provide viewers with a fresh and dramatic perspective of a pivotal moment in history. 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. Total. Today, the myth and propaganda of Poland rolling over in the face of Germanys invasion still persists, despite being just plain false, while Great Britain and France are remembered for having declared war. [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. During the war he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp. For most other nations, only estimates of varying reliability exist. [49] In addition 61,000 . How many people died during World War II. The American Ideas Institute is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C. 2022 The American Conservative, a publication of The American Ideas Institute. Corrections? [27] During the war the Nazi occupiers instituted the Volksliste in the Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany to register ethnic Germans in Poland. Psychiatric patients were executed in Action T4. War it shall be!. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami.Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Warszawa 2009. He didnt consult anybody, just did it. Polska 19391945. [75], Sourced from: Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. 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. Before he went to war, however, Wilsons policy reflected the same weird combination of no, were not intervening now, but yes, at some future date we will guarantee everything that we saw, in the year before Putins War, in the Biden policy toward NATO expansion. Data Source: United Nations - World Population Prospects. T. Panecki, Wysiek zbrojny Polski w II wojnie wiatowej, pl:Wojskowy Przegld Historyczny 1995, nr 1-2, s. 13,18. Polska 19391945. 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. 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