"In spring 1940 another wave of persecution of Polish intellectuals, called "Aktion A-B" by the Germans, began in all the large cities of the General Government. Governor Hans Frank openly saw this as "a convenient moment" in which the SiPo and SS had to act at a "faster pace" as the West was more concerned at the time with the invasion of Belgium and France than the fate of the Poles."
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Matuesz Zimmerman, Palmiry â Katyn outside Warsaw. The massacre they planted a pine grove over, onet.pl, 19 June 2015
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