The Holocaust: Members of German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 people in occupied Poland for helping Jews.

The Holocaust

Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.…

Ordnungspolizei

Uniformed police force of Nazi Germany (1936–1945)

The Ordnungspolizei were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. The Orpo was absorbed into the Nazi monopoly of power after regional police jurisdiction was removed in favour of the central Nazi government. In 1936, Heinrich Himmler, the commander…

Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre

War crime in Poland, 6 December 1942

The Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by the German Gendarmerie in the villages of Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka within occupied Poland. On 6 December 1942 thirty-one Poles, including women and children, from the families of Kowalski, Kosior,…

Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

During World War II, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union following the invasion in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945. Throughout the entire course of the occupation, the territory of Poland was…