According to many sources (along with Wikipedia) 6 million Poles died in WW2. 3 millions of them were Jews - the other 3 million were predominantly ethnic Poles and other minorities. How come the number for the ethnic Poles is so high? To put some perspective into it - during the 4 years of WW1 the most hurt nation of France lost ~1.5 million people (including those considered to be lost). Has anyone heard of massacres of Poles that would parallel scale of extermination of Polish Jews? Yes, there was Warsaw Uprising, Katyń and Volyhna massacre and...? I took my time and counted the numbers according to Polish historic books on WW2:
70.000 - September campaign of 1939 150.000 - Warsaw Uprising 22.000 - Katyn 60.000 - Wolyn 120.000 - dead and murdered due to sending them to CCCP 9.000 - Civil War 1944 - 47 25.000 - murdered in Mauthausen 10.000 - murdered in Treblinka 75.000 - murdered in Auschwitz 37.000 - Pawiak 30.000 - Ravensbruck 150.000 - all the other concetration camps 150.000 - everyday terror
Together: 908.000 (including 142.000 killed by Russians)
duh the question was how come so many died - the numbers don't stuck up according to Wiki and in general the consensus on casulties during WW2 ~15% of population died.
Sebastian Ramirez
>How come the number for the ethnic Poles is so high? The Germans saw them as untermensch and planned to wipe them out entirely.
Kevin Richardson
what kind of post is this? am I on /pol/ or on Veeky Forums?
Mason Sullivan
>ethnic >pole
Pick one
Kayden Taylor
Not enough. Catholics need to be purged.
Hudson Richardson
Oh look it’s this meme. Many poles saved Germans and united against the Soviets.
Most deaths in war in general are going to be indirect ones due to lack of food and shelter caused by war, not direct massacres. Same was true in Poland. Only in this case it was much worse since the Germans were planning on killing all the Poles anyway, so they took pretty much all the food they could. This led to mass famine. Millions of Poles were also conscripted as forced labor in German factories, where hundreds of thousands of died.
Jack Martin
Why? That is also a silly question. They were under nazi/commie occupation for nearly 2 years and then under nazi occupation for nearly 4 years. The nazis planned to depopulate Poland for natural Germans (see Generalplan Ost). Furthermore its largest cities were on the front lines of many bloody battles.
Grayson Murphy
>Many
Nolan Mitchell
>Poles hated Germans so much they massacred them at Bromberg >Poles loved Germans Which one is it /pol/?
Nolan Jones
Fuck off. Its you protestant fucktards who are responsible for today's degeneracy. Catholics are the only TRUE Christians, not your fucking sect that some Kraut came up with in 1500's in an attempt to destroy and destabilize Europe.
Samuel Lewis
>pole is one person
Lack common sense /lefty pol/?
Jack Cook
Holy shit, the /pol/-bait worked!
Anyone else would have realized that it was /pol/-bait to be used only for exposing /pol/ posters.
Kayden Bell
It’s a leftypol shill.
Isaiah Anderson
Ahhh the good ol 'Jokes on u I was pretendin to be a retard'
Justin Hill
"Tens of thousands were murdered in the German campaign of extermination of the Polish intelligentsia and other elements thought likely to resist (e.g. Operation Tannenberg and Aktion AB). Catholic clergy were commonly imprisoned or otherwise persecuted and many ended up sent to their death in concentration camps.[55][56] Tens of thousands of members of the resistance and others were tortured and executed at the Pawiak prison in Warsaw.[57] From 1941, disease and hunger also began to reduce the population, as the exploitation of resources and labor, terror and Germanization reached greater intensity after the attack on the Soviet Union.[43] Poles were also deported in large numbers to work as forced labor in Germany, or taken to concentration camps.[41] About two million were transported to Germany to work as slaves and many died there.[52][i] Łapanka or random roundup, on streets or elsewhere, was one of the methods practiced by the Nazis to catch prisoners for labor.[58] Several hundred Wehrmacht brothels, for which local non-German women were forcibly recruited, operated throughout the Reich.[59] In contrast to Nazi policies in occupied Western Europe, the Germans treated the Poles with intense hostility and all Polish state property and private industrial concerns were taken over by the German state.[60][61] Poland was plundered and subjected to extreme economic exploitation throughout the war period.[62]"
Camden Sullivan
"Germany planned to completely remove the indigenous population of Poland beginning with the newly created Reichsgau Wartheland territory in 1939. According to the Lebensraum aim and ideology, formerly Polish lands were to be taken over by the German military and civilian settlers including Eastern European Volksdeutsche. The "Germanizing" of occupied territories by the Reich was repeatedly condemned by Nuremberg Tribunal which stated that the practice of expelling civilians was "not only in defiance of well-established rules of international law, but in complete disregard of the elementary dictates of humanity."[60] During the occupation of Poland, the number of Poles evicted by the German authorities from their homes is estimated at 2,478,000.[61][62] Up to 928,000 Poles were ethnically cleansed to make way for the foreign colonists.[63]"
"Himmler promised to eventually deport all Poles to Russia. He envisioned their ultimate end by exposure, malnutrition and overwork possibly in the Pripet Marshes where all Poles were to die during the cultivation of the marshy swamps. Plans for the mass transportation and possible creation of slave labor camps for up to 20 million Poles were also made.[67]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_children_by_Nazi_Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Poles_by_Nazi_Germany
Ian Taylor
stop posting shit from wikipedia you silly fags i asked you to give me proof that indeed 3 million Poles died, because I believe it was way less
Samuel Collins
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Jace Thomas
>the classic conspiratard cycle where no proof is good enough and he retreats to his confirmation bias before shouting WAKE UP SHEEPLE and abandoning thread after running out of arguments
Hudson Young
> Piesowicz, Kazimierz. Demographic effects of World War II. [Demograficzne skutki II wojny swiatowej.] Studia Demograficzne, No. 1/87, 1987. 103-36 pp. Warsaw, Poland. (Piesowicz put the total war dead at 6.0 million. He also notes that all the figures are approximated.)
Dylan Torres
>French-Polish border on Elbe Germans do it again!
Jaxon Davis
See: Some of your numbers are way off. >70.000 - September campaign of 1939 66.000, but that's only military deaths. >60.000 Wolyn Wolyn wasn't the only place where Ukrainians killed Poles. Some 25.000-40.000 died in Eastern Galicia.
Wyatt Bennett
> U.S. Bureau of the Census The Population of Poland Ed. W. Parker Mauldin, Washington-1954
>Wojciech Materski and Tomasz Szarota. Polska 1939–1945. Straty osobowe i ofiary represji pod dwiema okupacjami.Institute of National Remembrance(IPN) Warszawa 2009 ISBN 978-83-7629-067-6
do your own research edgy Maciej
Tyler Nelson
Not enough
Evan Perez
I asked about Ethnic Poles, not all Poles (jews aren't considered poles by me)
John Watson
I cited the biggest pogrom like that in the east, adding your number at the highest value of 40.000 we are still 2 million Poles away from reaching 3 million mark
Easton Rogers
>150.000 - all the other concetration camps >150.000 - everyday terror These numbers are not accurate.
Cameron Rodriguez
provide the accurate ones then
Josiah Adams
I already posted a link with different estimates by various Polish historians.
Asher Fisher
maybe their numbers are wrong?
Caleb Rodriguez
Polish historians also estimated Jewish deaths ranging from a couple thousand to 6 millions there are many different theories - just cos it comes from a historian doesn't mean it's factually true
Aaron Reed
>the classic conspiratard cycle where no proof is good enough and he retreats to his confirmation bias before shouting WAKE UP SHEEPLE and abandoning thread after running out of arguments
Joshua Garcia
Announcing reports and submitting false reports violates global rule 7
Connor White
thanks for letting me know :) deleted it thus avoiding punishment, you are really smart aren't you
Aiden Morris
Mods can see deleted posts.
Cameron Hill
offtopic pls go
Hudson Cruz
Pretty much all estimates are close to 3 million. From the all communist ones (3 million) to modern ones (2.7-2.9 million). I don't know about any historians estimating that a couple thousand Polish Jews died.
Ethan Morales
Not nearly enough
Carter Perez
>Be sure to familiarize yourself with the Rules before posting
Landon Mitchell
virgin detected
Leo Diaz
>offtopic please go
This is the part you scream "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" and go back to /pol/
Jose Sanders
Who are you citing?
Adrian Robinson
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Ian Watson
they are though, you fucking shitstain bydlo
Sebastian Bennett
around 11 mln people were missing in 1945
Tyler Kelly
Danzig ist Polnisch
Tyler Baker
Poles truly got the worst end of the stick Jews at least got their own country in the end Poles suffered almost 50 years of terrible commie occupation which ruined their economy for decades to come and now they're the laughing stock of EU, made fun of as toilet cleaners and villified for not wanting to take hordes of refugees who steal and rape
Henry Cook
Truth. It’s a shame really. Like the beautiful sister who was raped, spat on and abused, all she wanted was her life back. She gave an inch, society took a mile.
Josiah Gomez
According to the USSHM, the number of non-Jewish Poles that died during WWII is 1.8-1.9 million. The old number of 6 million dead Poles - 3 million Jews and 3 million non-Jews - was an estimation from shortly after the war that become somewhat of a "dogma" during the communist regime. There are still some historians that adhere to higher numbers than 1.8-1.9 mln however.
In general, those numbers include not only persons who were killed directly, but also excess mortality - i.e. people who died earlier due to the deprivations of wartime and occupation (lack of food, medical care etc.).
That's a great explanation thanks! Also everyone has forgotten that natural causes of death shouldn't be counted as casaulties of the war yet nobody gives it a moment to consider.
Levi Parker
if you die from starvation because occupying force took all the food, then it's a casualty of war
Nolan Powell
>natural causes of death What are "natural causes"? If Germans took all your food and you starve to death is this natural?
Landon Williams
just dying of old age or heartattack
Liam Martinez
Ah, I see.
Dylan Long
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John Reyes
> 9.000 - Civil War 1944 - 47
? ? ? the hell are you talking about
Nathan Walker
insurgency of Polish terrorists "Cursed soldiers", mostly their massacres of civilians
Jayden Ortiz
They counted dead or displaced Germans as Polish casualties.
The more you know...
Alexander Cox
Many Jews were also ethnic Poles
Jason White
lol, stfu tankie
Ian Perry
Yea but calling it Civil War is plain wrong, like /pol/ lvl wrong.
Gabriel Hughes
You tried this on /pol/ today I saw it You missed massacres like AB Aktion,Operation Tannenberg, Wola Massacre etc and things like Heu Aktion, Pacification of rural areas, deaths of slave workers etc These numbers add up