In the second half of 1943 , Dubno became a shelter for ethnic Polish population of Volhynia , who came here to escape the Volhynian Genocide . The town was defended by a unit of Polish self-defence , which was tolerated by German authorities . On February 28 , 1944 , the Germans evacuated Poles from Dubno to Brody , and then to the Reich , where they became slave workers
Volhynian Genocide
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
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