Intelligenzaktion
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The Intelligenzaktion, or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders committed against the Polish intelligentsia during the early years of the Second World War by Nazi Germany. Th
In occupied Poland, on 9 September 1939, the Germans publicly executed twenty-five prominent citizens, in front of the Municipal Museum, in the Market Square of Bydgoszcz, as part of the mass shootings of Polish intelligentsia. To terrorise the townsfolk, the Germans displayed the bodies for six hours.
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen book – lists of 60,000 targets in Intelligenzaktion
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen – page with names under the letter "G" with abbreviations. EK stands for Einsatzkommando death squad, and EG stands for Einsatzgruppen authorities.
During World War II, over 1.7 million Poles were forcibly resettled from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization between 1939 and 1944.
Poles expelled in 1939 from Reichsgau Wartheland
Polish Matczak family among Poles expelled in 1939 from Sieradz in central Poland
Expulsion from Reichsgau Wartheland. Poles are led to trains under German army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the German Reich following the invasion.
Expulsion of Poles from Czerniejewo in 1939