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Wilhelm
Korczowski, (1895-1941)
One of polish victims of the German Nazi. After the 1939 German invasion
of Poland, German were arresting or killing polish civilians. Hundreds
of thousands of wealthy landowners, clergymen, and members of the intelligentsia,
government officials, teachers, doctors, officers, journalists, and others
were either murdered in mass executions or sent to prisons and concentration
camps. On September 7, 1939 Reinhard Heydrich stated that all Polish nobles,
clergy and Jews are to be killed, on September 12 Wilhelm Keitel added
intelligentsia to the list, at the end of 1940 Hitler demanded liquidation
of "all leading elements in Poland" and on March 15, 1940, Himmler
stated:
..." All Polish specialists will be exploited in our military-industrial
complex. Later, all Poles will disappear from this world. It is imperative
that the great German nation considers the elimination of all Polish people
as its chief task."...
My polish grand-father Wilhelm Korczowski ( born 21 may 1895) was arrested
april 1940 and first deported may 5,1940 to german camp DACHAU (nr.7372),
after transwered juin 26,1940 to german camp Mauthausen-Gusen (nr 5283
) and murder in this camp on January 14, 1941.
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