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Controversies of the Polish–Soviet War. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Military history of Poland. Human rights abuses in Poland.
Main article: World War II casualties of Poland. Public execution of Polish civilians in German-occupied territory, 1942. Around six million Polish citizens died between 1939 and 1945; an estimated 4,900,000 to 5,700,000 were murdered by German forces and 150,000 to one million by Soviet forces.
Atrocities. Attacks on Poles during the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were marked with extreme sadism and brutality. Rape, torture and mutilation were commonplace, with entire villages wiped out as a result. Poles were burned alive, flayed, impaled, crucified, disembowelled, dismembered and beheaded.
Hitler's speech to officers of the Wehrmacht High Command at Obersalzberg, 22 August 1939 Also, before the invasion of Poland, the Nazis prepared a detailed list identifying more than 61,000 Polish targets (mostly civilian) by name, with the help of the German minority living in the Second Polish Republic. The list was printed secretly as the 192-page-book called Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen ...
Recorded on Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. The Ciepielów massacre [t͡ɕɛˈpjɛluf] that took place on 8 September 1939 was one of the largest and most documented war crimes of the Wehrmacht during its invasion of Poland. On that day, the forest near Ciepielów was the site of a mass murder of Polish prisoners of war from the Polish ...
The first Polish war crimes tribunal was convened at Gdańsk, Poland, from April 25, 1946 to May 31, 1946. The next three trials took place at the same court in October 8–31, 1947, November 5–10, and in November 19–29 of that year. The fifth trial was held before the court in Toruń in 1949. The sixth and the last Stutthof trial in Poland ...
Bloody Sunday (1939) An ethnic German identifying a Pole as an alleged participant in anti-German violence in Bydgoszcz during "Bloody Sunday". Poles denounced in this way were usually shot on the spot. Bloody Sunday ( German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz ...
The Katowice massacre or the Bloody Monday in Katowice [1] that took place on 4 September 1939 was one of the largest war crimes of the Wehrmacht during its invasion of Poland. On that day, German Wehrmacht soldiers aided by the Freikorps militia executed about 80 of the Polish defenders of the city. [2] [3] Those defenders were self-defense ...