Auction 4 Valkyrie - Winter Auction 2021
By Valkyrie Historical Auctions
Feb 21, 2021
PO Box 13020 Des Moines, IA 50310, United States
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LOT 748:

Photo Previous to the Orzesze Massacre in Poland 1939

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Photo Previous to the Orzesze Massacre in Poland 1939
Photo taken in Orzesze (Poland) in September 1939 during the early days of the invasion of Poland and the beginning of the WW2. We see some German SS men watching some citizens of Orzesze, who are with their hands up. Paper Agfa Lupex. On 3 September 1939 German Freikorps and SS units surrounded the town of Orzesze. Next day, they murdered 29 inhabitants of Orzesze, former Silesian insurgents and many Jews in a nearby forest. Size 7,5 cm x 6 cm.