POLES

INVASION OF POLAND

• September 1st, 1939
• Warsaw surrendered on 27th
• Justification: Germany needed more living space
• Ethnic groups were segregated

CONTROL OF POLAND

• Murdered all highly educated people
• Destroyed all places of learning
• Destroyed monuments to Poland's heritage
• Undereducated polish children
• Murdered Roman Catholic clergymen

CHILDREN AND RELOCATION

• Poles were moved to German territory
• The strong were put in forced labor
• Children and elderly put in concentration camps
• Children were racially screened; then adopted or killed

RESISTANCE

• One of the largest underground movements in Europe
• Polish government never surrendered; based in London
• A small army formed, attacked, and was defeated

KILLED AND MOVED

• About 3,000 Polish clergy killed
• About 480,000 moved
• About 50,000 children kidnapped
• 1.5 million put into forced labor
• Hundreds of thousands in concentration camps, tens of thousands died there
• About 1.9 million victims total