General Government - Gallery

Gallery

  • The wall of the Warsaw Ghetto being built under the orders of Dr. Ludwig Fischer, Nazi governor of the Warsaw district, August 1940

  • Announcement by the Chief of SS and Police 5.09.1942—Death penalty for Poles for any help to Jews

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943: Warsaw Jews being held at gunpoint by SS troops (from a report written by Jürgen Stroop for Heinrich Himmler)

  • Polish inmates of Pawiak prison hanged by Germans in Leszno Street, Warsaw, February 11, 1944 (photo taken secretly from tram by a member of the Polish Home Army)

  • Warsaw Uprising: Polish soldiers in action, August 1, 1944

  • Polish civilians murdered by SS troops in Warsaw Uprising, August 1944

  • Aerial view of city of Warsaw, January 1945

  • Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael, stolen at the behest of Hans Frank in 1939 and never returned; one of over 40,000 works of art robbed from Polish collections

  • Polish hostages being blindfolded during preparations for their mass execution in Palmiry, 1940

  • The mass execution of Poles in Bochnia, December 18, 1939

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