The Palmiry Massacre: 1,700 Victims of Poland’s Intelligentsia
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In the forests near the village of Palmiry, northwest of Warsaw, the Nazis carried out one of the most brutal crimes of the occupation. Between 1939 and 1941, over 1,700 Poles — politicians, scholars, artists, clergy, and resistance members — were executed in secret mass shootings. The victims represented the heart of Poland’s intellectual and cultural life, targeted in the German campaign to destroy the nation’s leadership. Decades later, Palmiry stands as a silent forest of graves — a memorial to a people the Nazis tried to erase, and a symbol of how even in death, Poland’s spirit endured.
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