On 12 August , the order was given to stop the indiscriminate killing of Polish civilians in Wola . Erich von dem Bach issued a new directive stating that captured civilians were to be evacuated from the city and deported to concentration camps or to '' Arbeitslager '' labour camps . No one belonging to the German forces who took part in the atrocities committed during the Warsaw Uprising was ever prosecuted for them after the end of the Second World War . The main perpetrators of the Wola massacre and similar massacres in the nearby Ochota district were Heinz Reinefarth and Oskar Dirlewanger . Dirlewanger , who presided over and personally participated in many of the worst acts of violence , was arrested on 1 June 1945 by French occupation troops while hiding under a false name near the town of Altshausen in Upper Swabia . He died on 7 June 1945 in a French prison camp at Altshausen , probably as a result of ill-treatment by his Polish guards . In 1945 , Reinefarth was taken into custody by the British and American authorities but was never prosecuted for his actions in Warsaw , despite Polish requests for his extradition . After a West German court released him citing a lack of evidence , Reinefarth enjoyed a successful post-war career as a lawyer , becoming the mayor of Westerland , and a member of the '' Landtag '' parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . The West German government also gave the former SS - '' Obergruppenführer '' a general 's pension before he died in 1979
massacres in the nearby Ochota district
Ochota massacre
Wola massacre