In 1944 Nazi government official SS-Brigadeführer Franz Kutschera (known for his crimes against Poles, including Polish Jews) was gunned down in front of the SS headquarters by Polish special operations unit. In reprisal, 300 Polish civilians was murdered. Photo from Kutschera’s funeral.
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a suspiciously Slavic-sounding name for a upper tier Nazi functionary.
May the victims of the massacre memories be a blessing.
He certainly got what he deserved, but the retribution was predictable after what the Nazis did after Heydrich’s assassination.
Looking at it in retrospect, it might have been more strategical to focus on other targets since most Nazi leaders were not exactly competent and the next guy in charge was most likely as cruel or worse.
That’s not criticism however. The Polish resistance did what they though was right at the time and they didn’t know when the war would end.
“Are we the baddies?”
“Nah. We have good reasons for doing this.
Let’s go. Lets destroy the people of this village.”
>On February 4, 1944, in Deutsches Haus in Warsaw Kutschera’s pregnant Norwegian girlfriend Steen Jane Lilian Gjertsd[5] married the dead body of Franz Kutschera in accordance with pagan rites.[6]
Wtf was that?
Fuck the SS
Nazi reprisals were fucking brutal. It’s a difficult moral dilemma whether armed resistance was even worth fighting because of it.
Kutschera was especially cruel and tried to rule with as much brutality as possible. He was brutal even by Nazi standards – that’s why Polish resistance decided to kill him.
This piece of shit got what He deserved. Austrian, but proud of what the poles were capable under nazi occupation