The Wola Massacre: On this day 75 years ago Hitler’s depraved SS began one of the largest mass...

On August 5, 1944, German forces began to systematically murder 40,000 to 60,000 civilians in the Wola district during the Warsaw uprising. An excerpt from the article:

"In the early morning of 5th August 1944, as artillery pounded Warsaw and Luftwaffe planes screamed overhead, the relief force of Germans and their willing helpers hastily put together to quell the Warsaw Uprising set about their gruesome work with enthusiasm.

Warsaw’s western district of Wola was about to see an Armageddon on a scale and level of brutality for which it is difficult to find comparison in the modern era.

By the end of the bloodbath seven days later, 40,000 to 60,000 civilians would be dead, most of them shot, many burned alive and plenty raped and mutilated in sickening, bestial ways in an orgy of killing that was so ferocious and perverted that Wola, Warsaw and Poland as a whole have not yet been able to complete properly the process of grieving and closure to this day."