View source for Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps

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[[File:First transport to Auschwitz (Tarnów - 14th June 1940).png|thumb|right|Polish political prisoners of the [[first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp]] at the railway station in [[Tarnów]], 14 June 1940]]
During [[World War II]], hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Polish citizens were imprisoned in [[Nazi concentration camps]] for various reasons, including [[Polish resistance movement in World War II]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Polish Victims |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/polish-victims |website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org |access-date=23 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>{{bettersource|date=January 2021}}
In [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] alone, there were between 130,000 and 150,000 Polish prisoners, about half of them who perished during their incarceration.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Poles in Auschwitz / Categories of prisoners / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau|url=http://auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/poles-in-auschwitz/|access-date=2020-06-24|website=auschwitz.org}}</ref>
==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Wachsmann |first=Nikolaus |year=2015 |title=KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-11825-9 |title-link=KL (book) }}
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[[Category:Nazi concentration camps]]
[[Category:Polish people of World War II]]