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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
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] War of Poland of 1939, [h] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [i] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
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 1, 2014 · Six million Poles, half of them Jewish, died during World War II at the hands of the Nazis and the Soviets.
Feb 6, 2018 · In total, over 2 million non-Jewish Polish civilians and soldiers died during the course of the war.
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...
