Polish Killing German Civilians. —⁠Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz On September 1, 1939,

—⁠Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany unleashed World War II by invading Poland. Warsaw Ghetto Map, 15 October 1940 In 1939, German authorities began to concentrate Poland's population of over three million Jews into a number of extremely crowded ghettos located in large Polish cities. HITLER’S DIRECT ORDER FOR GERMANS TO KILL POLES INDISCRIMINATELY German propaganda had fabricated tales of Polish atrocities against Germans in order to induce Germans to “take revenge”. Before the German invasion of the USSR, the USSR, which had recently annexed parts of Poland as well as the Baltic states, carried out the Katyn massacre of 1940, a series of mass executions of over 20,000 Polish citizens, including 8,000 Polish Army officers, and smaller scale massacres of Baltic states officers. Refugees on a ship near Pillau Operation Hannibal was a military operation that started on 21 January 1945, on the orders of Admiral Karl Dönitz, withdrawing German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor. The German bombing of Coventry in 1940 resulted in a “city of lost souls,” according to the BBC, causing mass hysteria and destroying 41,500 homes in a single night. Following the German attack on the Soviet Union and the temporary re-opening of Polish-Soviet relations, the Polish government made inquires on the fate of officers. If and when time permits, we will reformat the document appropriately. 5 million German civilians present in Bohemia-Moravia in May 1945. The Nazi goal was to gain living space for Germans and to eliminate the untermenschen. v3mfxcawa5m
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