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.