Photo of a Massacre?

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Re: Photo of a Massacre?

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Post by 4thskorpion » 30 Jul 2015, 08:33

Michael Kenny wrote:Might possibly be the same train?

Train with Soviet heavy tank KV-1 and KV-2, captured on railway platforms on the stretch-Kopychintsy Husiatyn (Ternopil region, Ukraine).
Looks like great detective work!

Although now in the Ukraine, Tarnopol (Ternopil) and its environs were in Eastern Poland at the outbreak of WWII. In the years 1942–44 Tarnopol Voivodeship ( or county) was one of the target areas of the Volhynian genocide extending south from the neighboring Wołyń province, with summary massacres of Poles in hundreds of Tarnopol villages: i.e. Berezowica Mała (130), Łozowa (120), Ihrowica (90), Płotycza (43), etc. The slaughter of civilians, women and children alike, was conducted mostly by OUN-UPA groups of Ukrainian nationalists and lasted well into 1945, beyond the Soviet front. The Polish Armia Krajowa was active in the region opposing German rule and defending ethnic Poles from violence from Ukrainian Nationalists.

In 1941, 500 Jews were murdered on the grounds of Ternopil's Christian cemetery by local inhabitants using weapons borrowed from a German army camp.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternopil
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnopol_Voivodeship

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Re: Photo of a Massacre?

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Post by David Thompson » 31 Jul 2015, 02:54

See Juha Hujanen's post at at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 0#p1271270 for a possible match of the photograph(s) to July 1941 incidents involving the SS Wiking division at and around Husiatyn.


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