Crimes against the Polish nation committed Commitment by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion Attack of Poland , along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation Control of Poland in World War II , consisted of the murder Killing of millions of ethnic Poles and the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles .

Crimes against the Polish nation committed Commitment by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion Attack of Poland , along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation Control of Poland in World War II , consisted of the murder Killing of millions of ethnic Poles and the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles .

The Germans justified Justifying these genocides Killing on the basis of Nazi racial theory , which regarded Poles and other Slavic peoples as racially inferior `` Untermenschen '' and depicted Create_artwork Jews as a constant threat Warning .

By 1942 , the Nazi Germans were implementing their plan Arranging to kill Killing every Jew in German-occupied Europe , and had also developed Creating plans Arranging to eliminate Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Polish people through mass murder Killing , ethnic cleansing , enslavement and extermination through labor , and assimilation into German identity of a small minority of Poles deemed Coming_to_believe racially valuable .

During World War II , the Germans not only murdered Killing millions of Poles ( Jewish and otherwise ) , but ethnically cleansed Emptying millions more through forced Hostile_encounter deportation to make room for “ racially superior ” German settlers ( see Generalplan Ost and Lebensraum ) .

The genocides Killing claimed Statement the lives of 2.7 to 3 million Polish Jews and 1.8 to 2.77 million non-Jewish ethnic Poles , according to various sources such as Poland 's Institute of National Remembrance .

These extremely large death Death tolls , and the absence Presence of substantial non-Jewish civilian deaths Death in `` racially superior '' occupied European countries such as Denmark and France , attest to Germany 's genocidal policies directed Aiming against the Poles .

Later , all Poles will disappear from this world .

After Germany lost Earnings_and_losses the war Hostile_encounter , the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials and Poland 's Supreme National Tribunal concluded Process_end that the aim Aiming of German policies in Poland – the extermination Killing of Poles and Jews – had `` all the characteristics of genocide in the biological meaning of this term . ''

Their idea is that , if the Poles , who are on foot , get far enough from the town , the rest of the garrison will be unable to come to their assistance should fighting start .

However , the Polish archers fire Use_firearm flight after flight of arrows at the withdrawing Escaping Knights which wound many of them and allow Preventing_or_letting the Poles to get in among them and kill Killing many more .

Here they reform Reforming_a_system and await the Poles ' attack , confident that the terrain will give them an advantage .

However , instead of advancing straight at them , the Poles make Manufacturing a detour Motion to the steeper side of the hill .

However , before the two sides actually engage , Conrad of Niemcza , a Silesian [ German , more or less ] in King Sigismund 's army , on his own initiative rides out and challenges Confronting_problem the Poles to a duel .

Still the fight is equal , each side fighting under a single standard , that of the Poles a dark-red dual cross stitched Connect to a white background , that of the Teutonic Knights a white and red field joined Becoming_a_member diagonally , which is borne by Henry a knight of French origin .

First Poles annihilated Killing the 60 horses strong night guard and then attacked Attack the reminder of the enemy 's command , the swiftness and confusion of the night attack Attack disallowed Preventing_or_letting Swedes and Brandenburgers to mount Connect their horses .

Operation Military_operation Tannenberg ( ) was a codename for one of the extermination actions by Nazi Germany that was directed Aiming at the Poles during the opening Openness stages of World War II in Europe , as part of the `` Generalplan Ost '' for the German colonization of the East .

In Pomerania alone , 36,000–42,000 Poles , including children , were killed Killing before the end Process_end of 1939 .

From the Soviet point of view , the operation was a complete Process_end success Achieve , as both the Germans and the Poles loyal to the London government suffered Bodily_harm a defeat .

Initially , the Poles established Building control over most of central Warsaw , but the Soviets ignored Polish attempts to make radio contact Connect with them and did not advance beyond the city limits .

Intense street fighting Quarreling between the Germans and Poles continued .

Jews being harboured by Poles were exposed Reveal_secret by German house-to-house clearances and mass evictions of entire neighbourhoods .

Surprised Swedes lost Earnings_and_losses the battle Hostile_encounter , and the Poles recaptured Conquering the town .

Napoleon named Name_conferral the campaign the Second Polish War to gain Getting favor with the Poles and to provide Supply a political pretext for his actions .

Public executions and deportations to Siberia eventually persuaded Convincing many Poles to abandon GiveUp armed struggle Hostile_encounter .

The ensuing break-up Hold of estates and destitution of many peasants convinced Convincing educated Poles to turn Change instead to the idea of `` organic work Employment '' , economic and cultural self-improvement .

By late evening the Poles were again saved Rescuing by a self-sacrificing charge of the 4th battery of mounted artillery led by Lt.Col .

In what became Becoming known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Grochów , the spearhead of the Austrian force was defeated Conquering and the Poles withdrew Escaping successfully .

This gave Giving Poles enough time to leave Departing the Austrians locked Hold in Warsaw to their fate and liberate much of Galicia without much opposition from the enemy .

The Spanish attempt to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the siege Besieging of the Sagunto Castle failed when the French , Italians , and Poles drove their troops off the battlefield in rout Destroying .

When the Russians approached Arriving a local manor in which the Poles had their quarters , the Russian commander ordered Arranging a loose formation and tried to negotiate Communication an agreement and take Conquering all Poles into captivity .

When the Russians approached Arriving a local manor in which the Poles had their quarters , the Russian commander ordered Arranging a loose formation and tried to negotiate Communication an agreement and take Conquering all Poles into captivity .

The Poles were not ready GetReady to meet Come_together head on overwhelming German XV Army Corps ( General Hermann Hoth ) , and were easily defeated Conquering after two days of fighting Hostile_encounter .

The West Ukrainian People 's Republic , led by Yevhen Petrushevych , had tried to create Creating a Ukrainian state on territories to which both Poles and Ukrainians laid claim .

To halt Preventing_or_letting the Cossacks , Poles sent Sending Hetman Marcin Kalinowski , supported Supporting by Voivode of Braclaw , Stanislaw Lanckoronski .

Poles reached Arriving Krasne on February 20 , 1651 , and seized Conquering the town after a short skirmish .

After losing Earnings_and_losses a battle Hostile_encounter near Winnica , Poles had to retreat Escaping back to Volhynia .