Post by Jaga on Mar 13, 2017 19:46:54 GMT -7
Grandpa probably did some bad things..... I wish Poland knew it earlier, but at least the world noticed. The guy wrote the memories and he admitted to some of his bad doing
'No one escaped': Poland accuses 98-year-old Minnesota man of ordering a Nazi massacre
www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/13/no-one-escaped-poland-accuses-98-year-old-minnesota-man-of-ordering-a-nazi-massacre/?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.6fff730a58d8
It's unclear whether the Nazi unit commander knew precisely who had killed an officer in an attack near a Polish village — but there was no doubt about who was going to be punished.
In the summer of 1944, the commander turned his attention to civilians in two Polish villages and ordered his troops: “Liquidate all the residents.”
The next morning, according to the Guardian, soldiers started setting villagers' homes on fire, then shooting anyone who tried to get away.
“You could hear machine-gun shots and grenade explosions,” recalled Stanislawa Lipska, a survivor from one of the villages, Chlaniow. “Shots could be heard inside the village and on the outskirts. They were making sure no one escaped.”
Vasyl Malazhenski, a soldier in the company, recounted that he “could see the dead bodies of the killed residents: men, women, children.”
For decades, the commander who ordered the atrocity remained unknown, his war crimes unpunished even as Nazis and their collaborators have been pursued around the world.
[Why we could be hunting Nazis until the 2040s]
Now, Polish authorities say, they know the identity of the man who issued the kill order for the Polish villagers
'No one escaped': Poland accuses 98-year-old Minnesota man of ordering a Nazi massacre
www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/13/no-one-escaped-poland-accuses-98-year-old-minnesota-man-of-ordering-a-nazi-massacre/?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.6fff730a58d8
It's unclear whether the Nazi unit commander knew precisely who had killed an officer in an attack near a Polish village — but there was no doubt about who was going to be punished.
In the summer of 1944, the commander turned his attention to civilians in two Polish villages and ordered his troops: “Liquidate all the residents.”
The next morning, according to the Guardian, soldiers started setting villagers' homes on fire, then shooting anyone who tried to get away.
“You could hear machine-gun shots and grenade explosions,” recalled Stanislawa Lipska, a survivor from one of the villages, Chlaniow. “Shots could be heard inside the village and on the outskirts. They were making sure no one escaped.”
Vasyl Malazhenski, a soldier in the company, recounted that he “could see the dead bodies of the killed residents: men, women, children.”
For decades, the commander who ordered the atrocity remained unknown, his war crimes unpunished even as Nazis and their collaborators have been pursued around the world.
[Why we could be hunting Nazis until the 2040s]
Now, Polish authorities say, they know the identity of the man who issued the kill order for the Polish villagers
