Walter Braemer was a general in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht and a high-ranking SS commander during the Nazi era. He was a Nazi criminal responsible for mass murders of the civilian population of Bromberg/Bydgoszcz in Poland at the outset of the Second World War, and later for crimes against humanity in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. He escaped prosecution and punishment after the war despite having been held for 2+1⁄2 years as a prisoner of war by the British.
Announcement signed by Braemer informing about the public execution of 20 of Polish hostages at Old Market in Bydgoszcz on 9 September 1939
Public execution in Bydgoszcz's Old Market Square of civilians randomly caught in a street roundup (łapanka in Polish) on 9 September 1939 (historical photo from Jastrzębski 1974).
Public execution in Bydgoszcz's Old Market Square of civilians randomly caught in a street roundup on 9 September 1939, which was part of Bloody Sunday (historical photo from Jastrzębski & Sziling 1979).
Memorial stone on the site of the Slutsk ghetto — the inscription reads, in part: ON THIS SPOT, ON 7 AND 8 FEBRUARY 1943, THE NAZIS KILLED AND BURNED 3,000 PEOPLE (photo September 2012)
German retribution against people of Bydgoszcz
German retribution against the people of Bydgoszcz (1939) was mass war crimes committed by the German occupiers against the civilian population of Bydgoszcz of Polish and Jewish origin, between September and December 1939.
Polish hostages moments before execution. Old Market Square in Bydgoszcz. September 9, 1939
Volksdeutsch denouncing a Pole – alleged participant in "Bloody Sunday"
Roundup on Parkowa Street (September 8th)
Unknown by name resident of Bydgoszcz driven down Farna Street
