Do somebody has any information about polish POWs in the USSR right after collapse of Poland in sep of 1939?
I/m interesting an overal figures of soldiers , officers and ynter-officers who were captured bu the Red Army in that time.
According to the British Foreign Office it was approx 240,000:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1049114110312
Well thanks Amrit, i have to add this figure are supported by the some of russian sources.
But i could not to learn how many of them were the officers?
The only breakdown I can currently find are from two wiki articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre#_note-ipn_eng_news_high_katyn_decision
(details on numbers of POWs are in the Prelude)
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_prisoners_of_war_in_Soviet_Union_(after_1939)
I have not checked out the sources given, but they may give orginal sources for the information.