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Hitler killed these girls

– a horrifying story of some Polish girls, mostly teenagers, butchered by the Germans in the Wola Massacre 76 yrs ago. A must-watch movie

WOLA MASSACRE (5-7 August 1944) - the largest single massacre in WW2. Germans killed up to 60 thousand civilians (incl. women & children) in Warsaw in just 3 days. No perpetrator was convicted after the war. Some were rewarded with high public positions in post-war Germany.

Hitler sentenced Warsaw to death in his chilling order: “Each resident should be killed, prisoners should not be taken. Warsaw is to be levelled to the ground and in this way a terrifying example for the rest of Europe will be given.”

There was nowhere to escape to. The Germans had cut off the whole city. They were murdering whole families. Among the victims, mothers were found holding their children tightly.

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