An SD officer posing with a Pole who probably been detained for questioning.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 19369

Overview

Caption: An SD officer posing with a Pole who probably been detained for questioning.

This man and the others behind him could be what the Germans referred to as "Wehrfaehige," or persons capable of carrying arms, who were summarily interned during and immediately after the Polish campaign as a security measure.

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: ASSEMBLY POINTS POLES ROUND-UPS SD/SIPO/GESTAPO
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Poland -- GENERAL -- Aktionen -- Unidentified