Abstract

The paper discusses the applied method of verification of source data collected by local administration units after the end of World War II in Poland in relation to demographic losses during this conflict. The basic research problem was the question of the reliability and completeness of the questionnaires and the tabular summaries compiled on their basis. Such questionnaires, however, are lacking for the areas of Poland that fell within the borders of the USSR after 1945, and therefore cannot be used to investigate population losses in this area. In this case, the results of the 1931 census and a lesser known census conducted by the occupying German authorities on 1 March 1943 were used. The analysis was hampered by border shifts and subsequent changes of occupants, so in this case methods of geostatistical analysis based on a population density grid were used.

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