[Probably, SD officers questioning the ethnic German (Volksdeutsche) inhabitants of a Polish town.]

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 19365

Overview

Caption: [Probably, SD officers questioning the ethnic German (Volksdeutsche) inhabitants of a Polish town.]

It was standard practice during the Polish campaign for the SD and German military to question local ethnic Germans for information pertaining to Poles considered Deutschfeindlich, or "hostile to Germans." Poles and Jews named during such interviews were then arrested as suspected opponents and either shot or sent to the rear for internment.

One image of Einsatzgruppen activities in Poland in 1939, found by Joseph Igra after the war, in a an album in an apartment in Sosnowiec.
Date: Circa September 1939
Locale: Poland?
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Igra

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jacob Igra

Source Record ID: Collections: 2007.85

Keyword: INTERROGATIONS POLES SD/SIPO/GESTAPO VOLKSDEUTSCHE
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Poland -- GENERAL -- Aktionen -- Unidentified