What the records say
- When
- Sep 1939 – Jan 1940
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 20,000
- Coordinates
- 50.05° N, 19.94° E
- Description
- Nazi extermination operation directed at Poles in early World War II
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Tannenberg
Anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany
Operation Tannenberg was one of the first anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland from September 1939 to January 1940. The operation was conducted with the use of the Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen, a proscription list of more than 61,000 members of the Second Polish Republic's elite who were to be arrested then interned or shot.
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