Intelligenzaktion

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Intelligenzaktion was a secret Nazi German extermination campaign during the early stages of World War II aimed at eliminating the Polish intelligentsia and leadership class to cripple Polish society.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Intelligenzaktion canonical 6
AB-Aktion 1
Action against the Polish intelligentsia 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi German extermination campaign
crime against humanity
war crime
aimedAt Polish activists
Polish clergy
Polish intelligentsia
Polish landowners
Polish leadership class
Polish politicians
Polish teachers
alsoKnownAs Action against the Polish intelligentsia
linked to: Intelligenzaktion

Intelligenzaktion gegen die polnische Intelligenz
characteristic secret extermination campaign
targeted political and social elites
countryOfPerpetrator Nazi Germany
endTime 1940
estimatedNumberOfVictims over 100000
followedBy AB-Aktion
historicalContext German invasion of Poland in 1939
ideologicalBasis Lebensraum policy
Nazi racial policy
location Greater Poland
Kuyavia
Pomerania
Second Polish Republic
Silesia
Warmia-Masuria region
occupied Poland
method forced disappearances
mass executions
mass shootings
secret arrests
partOf German AB-Aktion in Poland
Nazi German occupation of Poland
perpetratedBy German police units
Gestapo
SS
Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
plannedBy Reich Main Security Office
purpose crippling Polish society
elimination of Polish intelligentsia
preventing organized Polish resistance
relatedTo Generalplan Ost
startTime 1939
supportedBy Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
timePeriod early stages of World War II
victimGroup Polish Jews in leadership positions
ethnic Poles

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Poles victimOf Intelligenzaktion
Poles victimOf AB-Aktion
linked to: Intelligenzaktion
Intelligenzaktion alsoKnownAs Action against the Polish intelligentsia
linked to: Intelligenzaktion
German AB-Aktion in Poland partOf Intelligenzaktion
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz roleIn Intelligenzaktion
Warmia-Masuria region eventOccurred Intelligenzaktion
Polish intelligentsia victimOf Intelligenzaktion
Palmiry forest partOf Intelligenzaktion in Poland
linked to: Intelligenzaktion