Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Polish citizens were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps for various reasons, including Polish resistance movement in World War II.[1]

Polish political prisoners of the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp at the railway station in Tarnów, 14 June 1940

In Auschwitz alone, there were between 130,000 to 150,000 Polish prisoners, about half of them who perished during their incarceration.[2]

References

1. "Polish Victims". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
2. "Poles in Auschwitz / Categories of prisoners / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau". auschwitz.org. Retrieved 24 June 2020.

Further reading

• Wachsmann, Nikolaus (2015). KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-11825-9.