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In the end, German losses totaled 14,000 dead or missing and 30,000 wounded out of a total of 1,250,000 troops involved in the invasion; Polish casualties numbered 66,000 dead, 130,000 wounded, and 400,000 captured out of 800,000 troops.
- Panzer division | WWII, Blitzkrieg, Germany | Britannica
panzer division, (“ armoured division”), a self-contained...
- World War II - Europe, 1939-41 | Britannica
Approximately 70,000 Polish soldiers were killed and more...
- Panzer division | WWII, Blitzkrieg, Germany | Britannica
Sep 1, 2014 · Historians estimate that about 5.5 million Polish people died under the Nazi occupation of their country, half of whom were Polish Jews. Another 150,000 died under Soviet rule.
- Timothy B. Lee
Sep 25, 2018 · But although the Polish were outnumbered, outgunned and very quickly overrun, it was still a very hostile invasion. There were a lot of casualties, a lot of deaths, and there were pitched battles between the two sides.
Aug 30, 2019 · Estimates vary, but more than five million Polish citizens were killed during the war, perhaps as much as 17% of the population, including up to three million Polish Jews murdered by the...
Sep 1, 2014 · Six million Poles, half of them Jewish, died during World War II at the hands of the Nazis and the Soviets.
Poland lost almost 12,8 million people (citizens) in the war, 1939-46 (date of census), from 35,8 million in August 1939 to 24 million in 1946. Your quoted numbers are 'invented ' figures by the Soviets and their lackeys in the Communist Poland. How many Polish citizens were in fact killed is still unresolved.