Czarny Las massacre
Czarny Las massacre (Polish: Mord w Czarnym Lesie, English: Black Forest Massacre, Ukrainian: Різанина в Чорному Лісі) was a mass murder of around 250–300 ethnic Poles during World War II, carried out by the Gestapo on the orders of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krueger (also spelled Krüger) in Czarny Las (Black Forest) near Stanisławów, during the night of August 14/15, 1941.
| Part of Generalplan Ost | |
| Date | August 14/15, 1941 |
|---|---|
| Type | Mass murder |
| Motive | Nazi racist policy, Anti-slavism, Anti-polonism |
| Perpetrator | Gestapo |
| Deaths | 250–300 ethnic Poles |
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