Massacre on Bracka Street, Warsaw

Massacre on Bracka Street - a series of murders, arson and other serious violations of the wartime law committed by soldiers of the German Wehrmacht during attempts to unblock the section of Jerozolimskie Avenue held by the insurgents in Warsaw.

During the fights conducted on August 3–4, 1944, the soldiers of the 4th East Prussian Grenadier Regiment repeatedly used Polish civilians as "living shields", shielding the tanks' attacks on the insurgent barricades. They also committed a number of murders of prisoners of war and residents of houses on Bracka Street and Jerozolimskie Avenue. The number of victims could exceed 200.

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