Stock photography picture of Poland Swietokrzyskie Michniow nazi genecide memorial

AMM0NY - Licenced Caption Poland Swietokrzyskie Michniow nazi genecide memorial Description Taken on Kodak E100VS Ektachrome Professional transparency slide film with Contax camera Carl Zeiss lens in 2007. In Michniow a pacification made by nazis during the WWII took place. As a result almost all population of the villge was murdered. Pacification operations are one example of the extermination policies used against Poland and were of a massive scale, resulting in the murders of approximately 20,000 villagers. They were mainly conducted in the areas of General Government, Pomorze, and in the vicinities of Białystok and Wielkopolska. The number of villages which were an object of pacification in Poland is approximately 825. Collective punishment was used during such operations to discourage both the hiding of Jews or Soviet POWs, and the aiding of any guerilla forces. Pacifications included the extermination of entire villages including women and children, expulsions, the burning of homes, confiscation of private property, and arrests. In many instances these operations were characterized by extreme brutality. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. ( link: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ) It uses material from the Wikipedia article titled "Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland" Keywords Poland, Polska, Swietokrzyskie, Mountains