Ochota Massacre - Systematic Looting and Destruction of Ochota District

Systematic Looting and Destruction of Ochota District

See also: Planned destruction of Warsaw

From mid-August till the beginning of October 1944, looting of property continued in the forcibly abandoned area of Ochota. The German occupational administration organized a systematic campaign of pillaging: booty was loaded into goods trains in the Warszawa Zachodnia railway station and forwarded to Germany. Additionally, convoys of trucks loaded with stolen property would set off on the road to Piotrków Trybunalski. In the end, German destruction units (Germ.: Vernichtungskommando) began their systematic activity of setting street by street on fire, thus effecting the final destruction of the city district.

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