Around six million Polish citizens are estimated to have perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Security Police, as w
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
German and Soviet army officers pictured shaking hands; Invasion of Poland, September 1939
Execution of 56 Polish civilians in Bochnia during the German takeover of Poland, 18 December 1939
Public execution of 10 Polish hostages by German troops in Gąbin, 15 June 1941
Reichsgau Wartheland
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The Reichsgau Wartheland was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from parts of Polish territory annexed in 1939 during World War II. It comprised the region of Greater Poland and adjacent areas. Parts of W
Mass execution of Poles in Leszno, 21 October 1939
Poles being led to trains under German Army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of the areas of western Poland annexed to the Reich immediately following the invasion of 1939
Bunker no. 16 in Fort VII in Poznań, used by the German occupiers as an improvised gas chamber