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Polish-Ukrainian civil war
Part of World War II
Monument in memory of Polish citizens of Janowa Dolina, Volyn
Date 1943-45 Location Volhynia, Galicia, Lublin (Kholm region), all along the border
Belligerents
Pro Ukrainian forces UPA Local militias Armed peasants, SS Galizen in 1944	Pro Polish forces Armia Krajowa Polish self-defense groups; Polish soviet partisans, Polish Nazi collaborators/police
Commanders and leaders
Shukhevych
Strength
UPA = 20,000 est. in Volhynia ,[1]	Polish Soviet partisans = 5-7,000, 1,200 Poles in german police (synder, restructuring, 172)
Casualties and losses
Military dead: X Civilian dead: 20,000 est.	Military dead: X Civilian dead: 35,000 est.

The Polish–Ukrainian Civil War of 1943-47 was a conflict between the forces of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and Poles for the control over Eastern Galicia and Volhynia after the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1941. Polish-Ukrainian conflict, endless cycle of mutual reprisals http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q2mq5C1CjgcC&pg=PR18&dq=shumuk+ukrainian+polish+volhynia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CddbT4-ZEILh0QHH-9ngDw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=shumuk%20ukrainian%20polish%20volhynia&f=false xvii

motyka calls it polish-ukrainian conflict

" Though he was a Polish partisan, Lotnik made it clear that atrocities could be attributed equally to both sides, ethnic Ukrainian and ethnic Polish" http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/comment13.htm " We retaliated by attacking an even bigger Ukrainian village and . . . killed women and children. Some of [our men] were so filled with hatred after losing whole generations of their family in the Ukrainian attacks that they swore they would take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. . . . This was how the fighting escalated. Each time more people were killed, more houses burnt, more women raped."[4] "