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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.
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
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 ...
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 ...
Historian Krzysztof Dunin-Wąsowicz [ pl] calculated that between January 1, 1943 and July 31, 1944, in secret or open executions carried out in Warsaw, the German occupiers murdered about 20,500 people, [56] most of whom were in all probability executed in the former ghetto. According to IPN historians, around 20,000 people were murdered in ...
25–28 June 1941. Szczuczyn. Polish nationalists. 300 Jews. Pogrom halted after intervention by German army in favor of the Jews. Additional 100 Jews killed in July by Poles. The Jews were subsequently murdered by the Germans. 1941 Białystok massacres. 27 June, 3–4 July, 12–13 July 1941.
Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic girl, 14 when she was murdered by the Nazi Germans at Auschwitz. 230,000 children, most of them Jewish, were murdered in the German camp. During World War II, three million Polish Jews (90% of the prewar Polish-Jewish population) were killed due to Nazi German genocidal action.