Czarny Las massacre

Czarny Las massacre
Part of the genocide of Poles by the Nazis
DateAugust 14/15, 1941
TypeMass murder
MotiveNazi racist policy, Anti-slavism, Anti-polonism
PerpetratorGestapo
Deaths250–300 ethnic Poles

Czarny Las massacre (Polish: Mord w Czarnym Lesie, English: Black Forest Massacre, Ukrainian: Різанина в Чорному Лісі) was a mass murder of around 250–300 ethnic Poles during World War II, carried out by the Gestapo on the orders of SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krueger (also spelled Krüger) in Czarny Las (Black Forest) near Stanisławów, the night of August 14/15, 1941.