Dąbrówka Nowa Massacre
The Dąbrówka Nowa massacre took place on January 22nd, 1945 in the village of Dąbrówka Nowa (Neuheim) in Poland , when units of the Red Army marched from Nakło to Bydgoszcz over 100 unarmed soldiers of the 15th Waffen SS Grenadier Division "Latvia" killed.
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On January 22, 1945, soldiers of the 5th Battalion of Construction Regiment 1 of the 15th Waffen SS Grenadier Division "Latvia" marched towards Sępólno Krajeńskie after a rest in Dąbrówka Nowa . They met a column that the Latvians mistook for Wehrmacht unitsheld. The Red Army immediately opened fire. Those who tried to surrender were executed on the spot. About 60 Latvian soldiers were able to flee back to Dąbrówka Nowa, where they holed up in the school building. The building was surrounded and destroyed by three tanks of the 9th Guards Panzer Corps. The bodies of the Latvian soldiers lay in the snow for over a week and were only buried on a fence in front of the local cemetery at the request of the villagers. In July 2010 their corpses were exhumed and reburied at the German war cemetery in Neumark in Stare Czarnowo .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gmina Sicienko : Dąbrówka Nowa: Z kart historii ( Dąbrówka Nowa: From the sheet of history ), accessed on November 19, 2018 (Polish).
- ↑ a b Edvīns Brūvelis u. a .: Latviešu leģionāri / Latvian legionnaires . Daugavas Vanagi, Riga 2006, ISBN 9984-19-762-3 , p. 3 ( online ).
- ↑ Ekshumacja żołnierzy w Kosowie , accessed on September 18, 2015 (Polish).