One of at least 30 mass graves of to Polish intellectuals (national activists, teachers, priests) from Kaszuby and Pomerania, extermina
One of at least 30 mass graves of to Polish intellectuals (national activists, teachers, priests) from Kaszuby and Pomerania, exterminated in Las Piasnicki (Piasnica Forest) near to Wejherowo by Nazi German Einsatzkommando 16 and Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, from October 1939 to April 1940, during the beginning of Nazi German occupation of Poland. Piasnica, Poland. September 24th 2020. In mass murders in Piasnica Wielka called Pommern Katyñ, Szpegawsk, Mniszek near Swiecie and many others, to Poles in Pomerania were murdered as a part of Intelligenzaktion Pommern (part of Intelligenzaktion in Poland), and Operation Tannenberg, secret planned extermination of members of Polish intelligentsia with the use of a proscription list (Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), compiled by Gestapo before 1939 © Wojciech Strozyk / Alamy Stock Photo
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