Intelligenzaktion Pommern
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The Intelligenzaktion Pommern was a Nazi German operation aimed at the eradication of the Polish intelligentsia in Pomeranian Voivodeship and the surrounding areas at the beginning of World War II. It
Mass shootings in Darzlubska Wilderness
Poles and Jews interned in Bydgoszcz
Polish teachers from Bydgoszcz guarded by members of Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz before execution
Albert Forster
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Albert Maria Forster was a German Nazi Party politician, member of the SS and war criminal. During the Second World War, under his administration as the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Danzig-West
Intelligenzaktion Pommern
…of ethnic Germans with previously Polish citizenship. They in turn were encouraged to participate in the violence and pogroms by the local Gauleiter Albert Forster, who in a speech at the Prusinski Hotel in Wejherowo agitated ethnic Germans to attack Poles by saying "We have to eliminate the lice ridden Poles…
As SS-Gruppenführer c. 1939
![Albert Forster with Arthur Greiser, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Hacker [de] and Wilhelm Koppe in the late 1930s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Greiser%2C_von_dem_Bach%2C_Forster%2C_Hacker%2C_Koppe.jpg/500px-Greiser%2C_von_dem_Bach%2C_Forster%2C_Hacker%2C_Koppe.jpg)
Albert Forster with Arthur Greiser, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Heinrich Hacker [de] and Wilhelm Koppe in the late 1930s
Albert Forster (right, standing in car beside the Reich Labour Service leader Konstantin Hierl saluting), reviewing a parade during the festival of the Danzig Labour Service on 4 June 1939.
Mass execution in Piaśnica