Reading post 577009 in main thread: 17 september 1939
June 8th, 2010  
mkenny
 
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Originally Posted by Panzercracker
Also Richard Pipes bases his data on several German reports that claim Germany in 1939 lost up to 90.000 K.I.A and W.i.A

To be specific Pipes in Communism: A History and another book quotes a specific source namely several high ranking Wechrmacht officers who claim that real losses in Poland numbered 91.000 dead and were instantly classified.



Pipes is famous for being a rabid anti-Russian Pole. Solzhenitsyn has denounced his (Pipes) work as "the Polish version of Russian History.
I have yet to find a Polish author who can give a blanced view of Polish-Soviet relations.

Anyone claiming 90,000 German dead in Poland in 1939 is suffering from severe delusions.

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