In 1939 such horror scenes were real life experience for many Poles. Usually women and kids would walk in the forest gathering brushwood and while kneeling on the soil they might have felt the soil trembling. It was not any earthquake.
Mass burial pits were covered with soil but corpses produced gases which made the soil covering them move. That is what was observed in Barbarka Forest by many witnesses. Kids who would gather brushwood. Unaware of what happened on the spot some days earlier.
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The truth may never be hidden. It will always be revealed. It just takes time.
Mass executions in Barbarka Forest near Toruń were conducted by local German occupants in autumn 1939. They were kept in secret by Germans, not informing the victims' relatives what happed to their closed ones. In between 600 to 1000 Poles are reported to have been executed due to Intelligenzaktion policy which aimed at the annihilation of the Polish elite once Germans took over Poland in autumn 1939.
The executed were captured and imprisoned in Fort IV Thorn (in Toruń). Lots of them were representatives of local elite (teachers, doctors, lawyers, public functionaries).
Those responsible for the crime, local Selbstschutz members and German authorities of the time located in Toruń were never punished for the executions held in October and November 1939.
For the list of the victims go here (link).
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Read more:- http://www.turystyka.torun.pl/art/1158/miejsce-pamieci-narodowej-barbarka.html accessed on 26 March 2018
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