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Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz)
| Valley of Death | |
|---|---|
| Part of Intelligenzaktion Pommern | |
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Dolina_smierci_Bydgoszcz.jpg) Polish teachers from Bydgoszcz led by members of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz to their execution site | |
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| Location | German occupied Poland |
| Coordinates | 53°9′23″N 18°8′5″E / 53.15639°N 18.13472°E |
| Date | October and November 1939 |
| Target | Polish intelligentsia |
| Victims | 1,200 – 1,400 |
| Perpetrators | Gestapo, Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz |
| Motive | Anti-Polish sentiment, antisemitism |
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Valley of Death (Polish: Dolina Śmierci) in Fordon, Bydgoszcz, northern Poland, is a site of Nazi German mass murder committed at the beginning of World War II and a mass grave of 1,200–1,400 Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo.[1][2] The murders were a part of Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania, a Nazi action aimed at the elimination of the Polish intelligentsia in Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, which included the former Pomeranian Voivodeship ("Polish Corridor"). It was part of a larger genocidal action that took place in all German occupied Poland, code-named Operation Tannenberg.[3]
- ^ Encyklopedia PWN, Intelligenzaktion. September–November 1939. Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
- ^ Piąta kolumna (Jungdeutsche Partei, Deutsche Vereinigung, Deutscher Volksbund, Deutscher Volksverbarid). Kampania Wrześniowa 1939.pl (2006). Retrieved 2 November 2015.
- ^ Saul Friedländer, Das dritte Reich und die Juden, C.H. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54966-7.
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