Genocide

Intelligenzaktion Pommern

1939 · 54.29° N, 18.15° E

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When
1939
Kind
Genocide
Deaths
40,000
Coordinates
54.29° N, 18.15° E
Description
1939–1940 massacres in Pomerania committed by Nazi Germany

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Intelligenzaktion Pommern

1939–1940 massacres in Pomerania committed by Nazi Germany

The Intelligenzaktion Pommern was a Nazi German operation aimed at the eradication of the Polish intelligentsia in Pomeranian Voivodeship and the surrounding areas at the beginning of World War II. It was part of a larger genocidal Intelligenzaktion that took place across most of Nazi-occupied western Poland in the course of Operation Tannenberg, purposed to install Nazi officials from SiPo, Kripo, Gestapo and SD at…

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