The other unit , '' Waffen-Sturm-Brigade R.O.N.A. '' , was tasked with clearing the Ochota district in Warsaw that was defended by members of the Polish Home Army . Their attack was planned for the morning of 5 August , but when the time came , the RONA unit could not be found ; after some searching by the SS military police , members of the unit were found looting abandoned houses in the rear of the German column . Later , thousands of Polish civilians were killed by the RONA SS men during the events known as the Ochota massacre ; many victims were also raped . In the following weeks , the RONA unit was moved south to the Wola district , but it fared no better in combat there than it did in Ochota ; in one incident , a sub-unit of the RONA brigade advanced to loot a captured building on the front line , but was subsequently cut off from the rest of the SS formation and wiped out by the Poles . Following the fiasco , SS - '' Brigadeführer '' Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski , the unit 's commander , was called to Łódź to attend a SS leadership conference . He never arrived ; official Nazi sources blamed Polish partisans for an alleged ambush that killed the RONA commander . But , according to various other sources , he was arrested and tried by the SS , or simply shot on the spot by the Gestapo . The behaviour of the '' RONA '' during the battle was an embarrassment even to the SS , and the alleged rape and murder of two German Strength Through Joy girls may have played a part in the eventual execution of the brigade 's commander
Ochota massacre
Ochota massacre
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