| Sonderaktion Krakau | |
|---|---|
| Part of Generalplan Ost and Intelligenzaktion | |
 Main entrance to Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Location of the Sonderaktion Krakau | |
| Location | Kraków, German-occupied Poland |
| Date | 6 November 1939 |
| Target | 184 academics including 105 professors and 33 lecturers from UJ, 34 professors and doctors from AGH, four from AE, four from Lublin and Wilno universities, and others |
Attack type | deportations to Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps |
| Perpetrators |  German government, SS-Obersturmbannführer Bruno Müller |
| Motive | Anti-slavism, Anti-polonism, Nazi racist doctrines |
Sonderaktion Krakau was a German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German-occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II.[1] It was carried out as part of the much broader action plan, the Intelligenzaktion, to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, especially in those centers (such as Kraków) that were intended by the Germans to become culturally German.
It is not clear if Sonderaktion Krakau (special operation Kraków) was the actual German codename. The reason for the detention was communicated to professors in the concentration camp.[2]
- ^ Grażyna Zawada (November 15, 2007). "Anniversary of "Operation Sonderaktion Krakau"". Krakow Post – Poland News, Events, Lifestyle. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
- ^ Gwiazdomorski (1975), p. 147