Heinz Reinefarth
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Heinrich "Heinz" Friedrich Reinefarth was a German SS commander during World War II and government official in West Germany after the war. During the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 his troops committe
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Polish civilians murdered in the Wola massacre. Warsaw, August 1944.
Memorial plaque commemorating the Warsaw Uprising at Westerland Town Hall on Sylt (inaugurated in 2014)
Wola massacre
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The Wola massacre was the systematic killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Poles in the Wola neighbourhood of the Polish capital city, Warsaw, by the German Waffen-SS, Ordnungpolizei, the Azerbaijani L
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…SS-Sonderregiment Dirlewanger under SS-Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger, murdered approximately 60,000 civilian inhabitants of Warsaw in what is known as the Wola massacre. In one of his reports to the commander of the German 9th Army Reinefarth stated that "we have more prisoners than ammunition to kill them". After…
The Wola Genocide Memorial on Górczewska Street at the location of the railway embankment where up to 10,000 people were shot and then burned by the Germans between 5 and 8 August 1944
Residents of Wola being expelled from their homes in August 1944
Building of a barricade on one of Wola's streets
SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth with soldiers of the 3rd Cossack Regiment