The Lviv Professors Massacre: 27 Scholars Murdered by the Nazis
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In July 1941, days after Nazi Germany captured Lwów (today's Lviv, Ukraine), the Gestapo and SS arrested and murdered 27 university professors and lecturers, along with members of their families, in a calculated attempt to destroy Poland's intellectual elite.
This is the story of the Lwów Professors Massacre, from the night arrests and executions to the men who organized the crime, including Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Hans Krueger, Felix Landau, and Walter Kutschmann. It also follows the long search for justice, as several of the perpetrators were eventually captured, tried, imprisoned, or executed after the war.
Discover why the professors of Lwów were singled out for extermination and how their memory survived despite decades of silence.
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