• Six Million Polish Citizens were killed (three million Jews and three million Christians of which over 2 million were ethnic Poles with the remainder being members of the various minorities) or about 17% of Poland's pre-war population. All but some 600,000 were civilians. Jewish losses were in the 79-85% range.
• Of the six million, 664,000 were battlefield deaths. 
• 800,000 Polish citizens became invalids.
• 30,000 developed various psychiatric disorders (not counting the many who lived with simple bitterness, depression, apathy or nightmares).

Non-Polish Nationals Brought to Poland by the Nazis (Many for Extermination)

• Gypsies from Germany and German occupied territories,
• 784,000 Soviet POWs,
• 22,000 Italian POWs who would not swear allegiance either to Hitler or Mussolini,
• Tens of thousands POWs from France, Great Britain, U.S.A., etc.,
• 93 Czech children from the obliterated town of Lidice who were gassed in Chelmno,
• 4,000 psychiatric patients from Germany,
• One million Jews from other European countries.

In all, about two million persons from 29 countries belonging to 50 different nationalities were also exterminated on Polish soil.

__________________________________________________________________Poland's Holocaust, Tadeusz Piotrowski, 1998

• For over 800 years prior to the partitions of the 18th Century, Poland existed as a sovereign country in the form of a tolerant, multi-ethnic Commonwealth, with a rich legal tradition.
• For 400 years, 1386-1795, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was Europe's largest political nation of free citizens.
• For 300 years, the largest territory in Europe.
• Completely absent from the map of Europe for 60 years.

• Boundaries with neighbours have not been settled.
• Border wars on three fronts (against the Ukrainian nationalists near Lwow, against the Czechs in Teschen and against the Germans in Poznania). 
• Seven different currencies in circulation.
• Four different legal systems operating.
• A tenuous hold of power by Pilsudski with many rivals in competition with him and each other for the job of running the country. 
• Bureaucrats from the three defunct empires disorganized and spreading confusion, the Polish governmental machinery in a primitive state.  
• Projected deficit for the first 6 months of 1919 of almost 2 billion Polish marks.
• Industrial property either looted or demolished during the war, industry at a standstill; 85% of industrial workers unemployed.
• Three incompatible railway systems in existence with half of the rolling stock, bridges and workshops destroyed by war.
• Six million acres of forest had been cut during the war to provide for supports for the trenches.
• More than a third of the livestock gone, appropriated, together with most other goods and food stuffs, by occupying armies.
• More than half of the agricultural acreage left uncultivated.
• 700,000 Poles driven eastward into Russia by the German offensive of 1915.
• Nearly 500,000 Poles killed in action while fighting for the Russian, German or Austrian armies with 1,000,000 wounded.
• Hunger and diseases such as Spanish flu and typhus raging throughout the land.
• Rampant lawlessness and crime perpetrated by deserters, common criminals and refugees in the presence of a power vacuum.