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Piaśnica Massacre: Nazi Germany's First Mass Extermination of Polish Civilians
The Piaśnica Massacre was one of the earliest large-scale Nazi massacres of civilians during the Second World War, claiming the lives of between 12,000 and 16,000 people in occupied Poland.
In the early months of the Second World War, the forests near the small Kashubian village of Piaśnica in northern Poland became one of the first major killing sites of the Nazi occupation. After invading Poland on 1 September 1939, German authorities launched a campaign of terror aimed at destroying Polish society. Under the leadership of Gauleiter Albert Forster, the region of Danzig–West Prussia saw mass…
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