In occupied Poland and the USSR , hundreds of villages were wiped out and their inhabitants murdered . In the USSR , captured Soviet and Jewish partisans were used to sweep fields of land mines . In a number of occupied countries , the Wehrmacht 's response to partisan attacks by resistance movements was to take and shoot hostages . Examples are : Putten ( Netherlands ) , Dortan ( France ) , Borovë ( Albania ) and Turchino ( Italy ) . As many as 100 hostages were murdered for every German killed . This formula for retribution lead to two mass murder campaigns against Serbian civilians in Kraljevo and Kragujevac , with a combined death toll reaching over 4,500 civilians . In 1944 , prior to and after the D-Day invasion , the French Resistance and the Maquis increased their activities against all German organisations , including the '' Wehrmacht '' and '' Waffen-SS ''
Kraljevo
Kraljevo massacre
War crimes of the Wehrmacht