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[edit] Polish POWS

What happened to the Polish POWs in the Soviet Union? Xx236 12:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

See if you can get a hold of Karpus book Jeńcy polscy w niewoli (1919-1922) to answer that question...--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 18:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Note: I have access to that book. Some notes: Polish casualties from Nov 1918 - Dec 1920: KIA, 47571; WIA, 113518; MIA 51351 based on Sikorkski's 'Nad Wisla i Wkra' (p. VII). By the time of Riga treaty number of Polish POWs in SU was unknown. 25440 soldiers returned form Russia, about 3000 from Lithuania and 2000 from Germany. About 20000 (39%) of missing probably died as POWs; most of them in SU (p.VIII). He provides no further interpretation of that data, most of his book is composed of documents and translations. They concern both Soviet and Lithuanian POW camps and are full of expected descriptions of forced labor, poverty, dieseas, hunger, robbery (including of clothes in winter), and occasional reports of murder. He also clearly states that Russian claims that many Soviet soldiers died as Polish POW is political propaganda designed as anti-Katyn and based on false data.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 20:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)