What the records say
- When
- Sep 1939
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100,000
- Coordinates
- 52.00° N, 19.00° E
- Description
- secret mass murder conducted by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia early in the Second World War
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Intelligenzaktion
Plan of extermination of Polish intelligentsia by German troops in 1939
The Intelligenzaktion (German pronunciation: [ɪntɛliˈɡɛnt͡s.akˌt͡sjoːn] was a series of mass murders committed against the Polish intelligentsia during the early years of the Second World War by Nazi Germany. The Germans conducted the operations in accordance with their plan to Germanize the western regions of occupied Poland, before their territorial annexation to the German Reich.
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