Volunteers and Non-volunteers
Among the citizens of interwar Poland who served in the Wehrmacht, the Secretary of State of the British government reported in parliament that a total of 68,693 were captured by 1945.
Of the Polish soldiers who served in the Wehrmacht many deserted or were captured by Allies and later joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West and fought against the Germans.
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“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)