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The Ponary massacre (Polish: zbrodnia w Ponarach), or the Paneriai massacre (Lithuanian: Panerių žudynės), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, [3] [4] [5] during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland.
Map of Vilna Ghetto (small ghetto, in olive-green) In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the Vilnius Old Town and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by SS Einsatzkommando 9 Oberscharführer Horst Schweinberger under orders ...
John H. "Jack" Van Vliet Jr (November 9, 1914 – February 5, 2000) was a career United States Army officer. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (U.S.M.A.) in 1937, fought in North Africa with II Corps (United States), and was captured during the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid on February 17, 1943.
The Katyn Forest Massacre: Hearings Parts 1-4 Parts 5-7 Before the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence And Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, Eighty-second Congress, First-[second] Session, On Investigation of the Murder of Thousands of Polish Officers In the Katyn Forest Near Smolensk, Russia ...
The Arnsberg Forest massacre (also known as the Massacre in Arnsberg Woods) was a series of mass extrajudicial killings of 208 forced labourers and POWs [citation needed] (Ostarbeiter), mainly of Russian and Polish descent, [1] [2] by Nazi troops under the command of Hans Kammler [3] from 20 to 23 March 1945.
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The Siberian Forest Cat is the ultimate survivor, having honed its instincts in the harsh, freezing forests of Russia. Happily, for lovers of this friendly, interactive, and affectionate breed, it ...
Czarny Las massacre (Polish: Mord w Czarnym Lesie, English: Black Forest Massacre, Ukrainian: Різанина в Чорному Лісі) was a mass murder of around 250–300 ethnic Poles during World War II, carried out by the Gestapo on the orders of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krueger (also spelled Krüger) in Czarny Las (Black Forest) near Stanisławów, the night of August 14/15, 1941.