Polish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps

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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 German concentration camps for various reasons, including the Polish resistance movement in World War II.[1][better source needed]

In Auschwitz alone, there were between 130,000 and 150,000 Polish prisoners, about half of whom perished during their incarceration.[2]

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