The Hubal pacifications[1][2] is a term used to describe a repressive action carried out by the German occupiers in Poland from March 30 to April 11, 1940. It targeted villages located near areas where the unit of Major Henryk Dobrzański, codenamed Hubal, was operating.
The pacification operation involved Schutzstaffel units, Ordnungspolizei, Selbstschutz, and the National Socialist Motor Corps. A total of 31 villages in the counties of Końskie, Kielce, and Opoczno were subjected to various forms of repression. Four villages were completely burned down, while most of the buildings in a fifth village were destroyed. In total, 712 Polish civilians were murdered, including two women and six children.
The Hubal pacifications were the first repressive action of this kind carried out by the Germans in occupied Poland and Europe.
- ^ Terror hitlerowski (1988, p. 40)
- ^ Jankowski (2009, pp. 179, 192)