Intelligenzaktion

Nazi extermination operation directed at Poles in early World War II

The Intelligenzaktion (), or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders committed against the Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, and other prominent members of Polish society) during the early years of the Second World War (1939–45) 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.

Nazi German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II

act of murdering Polish scientists by police force of Nazi Germany (Lviv/Lwów, 1941)

proscription list made by Nazi Germany targeting important members of Polish society for executions

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a series of mass executions carried out by Nazi German forces, during the Second World War, near the village of Palmiry, northwest of Warsaw.

massacres perpetrated by Nazi Germany