Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish Poles, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, as well as their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories of wartime criminality were established: waging war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These three core crimes of international law were set apart from other crimes, and for the first time since the end of war categorized as violations of fundamental human values and norms. They were committed in occupied Poland on a tremendous scale.
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| - Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish Poles, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, as well as their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories of wartime criminality were established: waging war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These three core crimes of international law were set apart from other crimes, and for the first time since the end of war categorized as violations of fundamental human values and norms. They were committed in occupied Poland on a tremendous scale.
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- Polish hostages unloaded for mass execution. Palmiry near Warsaw, 1940
- Momentum, a cast-iron memorial to Polish people "deported" to their deaths in World War II, Warsaw
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| - Wehrmacht, Gestapo, SS, Selbstschutz, Sonderdienst, NKVD, SMERSH, Red Army, OUN-UPA
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- occupied Poland
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- Polish hostages preparing by Nazi Germans for mass execution 1940.jpg
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| - Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish Poles, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, as well as their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories of wartime criminality were established: waging war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These three core crimes of international law were set apart from other crimes, and for the first time since the end of war categorized as violations of fundamental human values and norms. They were committed in occupied Poland on a tremendous scale. See also: German war crimes, Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles, Soviet war crimes, Holocaust in German-occupied Poland, Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), and History of Poland (1939–1945)
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