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    The 1940 AB-Aktion (German: Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, lit. 'Extraordinary Operation of Pacification'), a second stage of the Nazi German campaign...
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    increased with the beginning of AB-Aktion. The first mass execution conducted in Palmiry in the course of AB-Aktion took place on 14 June 1940. About...
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    murder of the Polish intellectuals continued with the operations of the AB-Aktion. Adolf Hitler ordered the murder of the intelligentsia and the social...
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    were placed under civilian or military rule. The war provided cover for "Aktion T4", the murder of around 70,000 institutionalized Germans with mental or...
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    the SS with extermination actions codenamed Operation Tannenberg and AB-Aktion to remove potential leaders who could form a resistance to German occupation...
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    Intelligenzaktion lasting till the spring of 1940; followed by the German AB-Aktion which ended in late 1940. Long before the attack on Poland, the Nazis...
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    in the Sonderaktion Krakau. The German occupiers subsequently launched AB-Aktion in May 1940—a further plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia and...
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    taken by the Polish Underground of Nazi Secret Police rounding up Polish intelligentsia at Palmiry near Warsaw in 1940 for mass execution (AB-Aktion)...
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    were killed. It was continued by the German AB-Aktion operation in Poland in the mid-1940s. The AB-Aktion saw the massacre of Lwów professors and the...
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    development using slave labour. As a result, the RSHA decreed the Fabrik-Aktion, an initiative to register all Jews working in armaments production. The...
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    and prisoners in occupied territories during World War II originated with Aktion T4 in 1939. Ordered to find a suitable method to kill, the Technical Institute...
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    physical and mental disabilities and patients of psychiatric hospitals. Aktion T4 mainly took place from 1939 to 1941, but the murders continued until...
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    80th Academy Awards ceremony. Germany portal Intelligenzaktion Aktion Krakau German AB-Aktion operation in Poland Invasion of Poland Massacre of Lviv professors...
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  • Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of Petrushino Zmievskaya Balka Slovakia Kremnička and Nemecká...
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    Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of Petrushino Zmievskaya Balka Slovakia Kremnička and Nemecká...
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  • military operations of the Special Prosecution Book-Poland, the German AB-Aktion in Poland, the Intelligenzaktion, and the Intelligenzaktion Pommern. In...
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    Reinhard in Kraków, often referred to by its original codename in German as Aktion Krakau, was a major 1942 German Nazi operation against the Jews of Kraków...
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    Aktion T4 (German, pronounced [akˈtsi̯oːn teː fiːɐ]) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in...
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    War II, as part of the Polish extermination program known as the German AB-Aktion in Poland, Ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany.... Rotunda...
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    more than 50,000 Jews (committed by German and Romanian troops), and by Aktion Erntefest of November 1943 in occupied Poland with 42,000–43,000 victims...
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    example, by August–September 1939 (Operation Tannenberg followed by the A-B Aktion in 1940), Einsatzgruppen death squads and concentration camps had been employed...
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    regional actions. The Intelligenzaktions were continued by the German AB-Aktion operation in Poland. By 5 October 1939, in West Prussia alone, the Selbstschutz...
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    published in German and Polish in 1940 in occupied Kraków after the end of AB-Aktion (in German Ausserordentliche Befriedungsaktion). Later lists were published...
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    Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of Petrushino Zmievskaya Balka Slovakia Kremnička and Nemecká...
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    gassing of hospital patients and disabled adults, as part of the wider Aktion T4 programme. Following the orders of Adolf Hitler, a special unit dubbed...
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    Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of Petrushino Zmievskaya Balka Slovakia Kremnička and Nemecká...
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    Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of Petrushino Zmievskaya Balka Slovakia Kremnička and Nemecká...
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    Fort November 1941 Ponary Poland Operation Tannenberg Intelligenzaktion AB-Aktion Russia Gully of Petrushino Zmievskaya Balka Slovakia Kremnička and Nemecká...
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    shooting actions (see: the 1939 Intelligenzaktion and the 1940 German AB-Aktion in Poland) or imprisoned at the Nazi concentration camps. Managerial jobs...
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