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==War Crimes==
During the war, the UPA became known for its heinous war crimes against Polish civilians. The UPA adopted a policy of massacring and deporting the Polish populations of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, in an attempt of ethnic cleansing in order to annex Polish territory to the future Ukrainian State. When the UPA reached Polish towns, men were tortured and burned alive, women were gang-raped, children were pounded with axes, and babies were impaled on bayonets. It is said that the Catholic priests were also crucified and the villages burned. On occasions, the UPA partnered with Ukrainian farmers in Polish areas to help them with their ethnic cleansing. An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Poles were killed by the UPA.

The UPA also helped perpetuate [[The Holocaust]], as the UPA members infiltrated the Nazi Army to obtain military training, and under those conditions, they helped the Nazis kill Jews, and the UPA is believed to be responsible for the murder than 200,000 Polish Jews.