Polish women led to mass execution in a forest near Palmiry, Poland, 1940. Between December 1939 and July 1941 more than 1700 Poles and Jews were executed by the SS and Ordnungspolizei in a forest glade near Palmiry. The best documented of these massacres took place on 20–21 June 1940, when 358 members of the Polish political, cultural, and social elite were murdered in a single operation.
