 In total, up to 200,000 Poles lost their lives at the beginning of war regardless of the nature of the conflict.Likewise, over 100,000 Poles died in the Luftwaffe's terror bombing operations.The pacification actions were conducted in west-central Poland as well in the eastern Kresy regions re-captured from the USSR in 1941, including in the Polesie Voivodeship, Nowogródek Voivodeship and others, comprising most of contemporary West Belarus.