The execution is said to be preceded by an event in which during a skirmish a Wehrmacht soldier was deadly wounded in his head which resulted in loosing his eyes (as eyes left the eye sockets). When his body was found, his colleagues thought he was mutilated on purpose by Poles. As a result a revenge on captured Polish soldiers was organized. The next day a group of 45 Polish POWs was brought to the site of the skirmish where Wehrmacht’s soldiers started to torture Poles with their belts and butts. Then execution followed and only 3 POWs are reported to have saved their lives in a nearby barn where they headed after the execution.
On 22 April 1940 German authorities and Polish Red Cross undertook an exhumation and 42 bodies were found and buried in a common grave at the Majdan Wielki cemetery.
Read more:
- Jochen Böhler: Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu w Polsce. Kraków: Wydawnictwo „Znak”, 2009, s. 183. ISBN 978-83-240-1225-1.
- Szymon Datner: Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach wojennych w II wojnie światowej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo MON, 1961, s. 57–58.
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