Abstract: The following chapter is a first attempt at developing an image of the human losses among young boy and girl scouts caused by the Nazi terror implemented during World War II. The absence of detailed research in this area makes it difficult to present a synthetic treatment of the topic. However, even based solely on selected examples it can be seen that between 1939 and 1945 many hundreds of scouts, both male and female, lost their lives. These were young persons aged 16 to 18. The vast majority of them were students of the secret teaching organization which operated in occupied Poland, in middle school or in their first years of higher education. The ethical and moral sense of obligation which these young people accepted upon joining the scouts would have made them the elite of the younger generation of Poles. The tragic martyr's death which they suffered at the hands of the Germans, in addition to the personal trauma experienced by their loved ones, was a huge loss for Polish social and cultural life after 1945.

Keywords: Polish scout victims of World War II, the struggle of Polish scouts against the German occupiers