One third of the holocaust.

[cegorach]

[QUOTE=Cronos Impera]

Well, as a 1/4 Pole myself I can tell you many Poles might have vanished during the Soviet ocupation.

True, but those losses are between 0,5 and 1,5 million.

It is true that overall Poland lost about 10-12 million citizens (from 35 million in 1939) - but from those 'only' 5-6 million were counted as Polish/Jewish ( only the Nazis seen a difference between a Catholic Pole with Jewish grandparents and 'ordinary' 'sub-humans').

Only recently it was decided to FINALLY count the number of people lost during the war, because fate of many is still unknown.

There are many reasons for such a big drop in population of Poland - from genocide and warlosses to forced conscription ( Red Army and Wehrmacht), child abduction ('nordic' children were taken from orphanages and hospitals by Germans), changes in borders, population transfers and emigration. Also many Poles were left abroad after the country was occupied by the Soviets.

2nd WW decomposed the ethnic structure of the entire Central-Eastern Europe after all and in Poland everyone lost someone close (my grandfather's sister died in the Warsaw Uprising 1944).

[Veho Nex]

2nd WW decomposed the ethnic structure of the entire Central-Eastern Europe after all and in Poland everyone lost someone close (my grandfather's sister died in the Warsaw Uprising 1944).

Thats sad my G-ma lost her uncle in that

[KrooK]

Yep and my grandparents cousine.