Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
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The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the negationist notion that the regular German armed forces were not involved in the Holocaust or other war crimes during World War II. The myth, heavily promoted by
Germans protesting the Wehrmacht exhibition in 2002. The touring exhibition, organised by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, began to erode the myth for the German public in the 1990s. The signs state "Glory and honour to the German soldier!"
About 300 Polish prisoners of war were murdered by soldiers of the German 15th Motorised Infantry Regiment in the Ciepielów massacre on 9 September 1939.
Großadmiral Karl Dönitz and several Kriegsmarine (Naval branch of the Wehrmacht) officers performing the Nazi salute in 1941
Three men about to be hanged in front of a large crowd of Wehrmacht soldiers
Einsatzgruppen
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Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe. The Einsatzgrup
Mass execution of Soviet civilians, 1941
Execution of Poles in Kórnik, 20 October 1939
Polish women led to mass execution in a forest near Palmiry
Naked Jewish women from the Mizocz ghetto, some of whom are holding infants, wait in a line before their execution by the Order Police with the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliaries.