Around 140,000 civilians, mostly Ukrainians, were forcibly resettled as part of Operation Vistula.

Around 140,000 civilians, mostly Ukrainians, were forcibly resettled as part of Operation Vistula.
Those murders “initiated the genocidal crimes of the Third Reich” but “are not widely known”.
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