The Wola massacre was the systematic killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Poles in the Wola neighbourhood of the Polish capital city, Warsaw, by the German Waffen-SS, Ordnungpolizei, the Azerbaijani L
Residents of Wola being expelled from their homes in August 1944
Building of a barricade on one of Wola's streets
SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth with soldiers of the 3rd Cossack Regiment
II. Battalion "Kampfgruppe Steinhauer" from the SS-Sonderregiment Dirlewanger marching along Chłodna Street towards the city centre
Heinrich "Heinz" Friedrich Reinefarth was a German SS commander during World War II and government official in West Germany after the war. During the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 his troops committe
Polish civilians murdered in the Wola massacre. Warsaw, August 1944.
Memorial plaque commemorating the Warsaw Uprising at Westerland Town Hall on Sylt (inaugurated in 2014)