Mass execution in Barbarka forest near German-occupied Toruń. In autumn 1939 approximately 600 Poles were executed in this place by the members of paramilitary Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. During the Second World War this photo was placed in so-called "Album of fame of Selbstschutz" (known also as "Alvensleben Album"). After the end of war this album was found and taken over by the Polish authorities.
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Tadeusz Jaszowski, Czesław Sobecki: „Niemy świadek. Zbrodnie hitlerowskie w toruńskim Forcie VII i w lesie Barbarka”. Bydgoszcz: Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich i Kujawsko-Pomorskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne, 1971.