[sobieski]

True, he did. But your numbers are wrong. Poland lost 6.5 million soles: 0.5 mn to combat, 3 million Jews and ... 3 million Slavs. The Soviets lost 20 million, including 5 million under Nazi occupation. That doesn't add in various Serbs, Czechs, and even Croats (Franciscans, esp). No, the Slavs were to disappear along with the Jews and Gypsies, much like the German's successful elimination of the Prussians (a Baltic people like the Latvians who ceased to exist).

[rmlew]

But your numbers are wrong. Poland lost 6.5 million soles: 0.5 mn to combat, 3 million Jews and ... 3 million Slavs.
Yes, that was 1/5th the pre-war population.

The Soviets lost 20 million, including 5 million under Nazi occupation. That doesn't add in various Serbs, Czechs, and even Croats (Franciscans, esp).
I believe that we are counting different things. I look at those targeted for death, as opposed to those who died in the war.

No, the Slavs were to disappear along with the Jews and Gypsies, much like the German's successful elimination of the Prussians (a Baltic people like the Latvians who ceased to exist).
The Tuetonic Knights destroyed the ethnic grouping of the pagan Prussian peoples. They were conquered and became German over time, especially as Brandenburg took over Prussia. Of course, virtually all of these were forced out of Poland after World War II.