Speaking of the atrocities committed by the fascist Nazis during World War II, each of the participating countries has its own painful memories that they do not want to recall. But in some areas, the people who have been hurt the most are former neighbors and friends, such as the Warren Massacre in Poland.
Warren was originally a province of Poland during the Second Republic, with a total area of about 35,000 square kilometers, and now belongs to Ukraine. Although Warren came under Polish rule after the end of World War I, due to the large number of Ukrainians living here, the Polish government arranged 7,000 veterans and officers to live here, and the local welfare of the police, postman, railway workers and other positions were held by Poles, which led to the growing dissatisfaction of Ukrainians.
When World War II broke out in September 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany partitioned Poland, and Poland's long-standing hostility to the Soviet Republic led to the purging of the elite, and the Ukrainians were strongly suppressed by the Soviet Union for their idea of independence. When the Soviet-German War broke out in June 1941, Ukrainian nationalists became active, and many joined the German army as their thugs. With the support of the Nazis, Ukrainian extremists formed the infamous Ukrainian insurgent army in October 1942. By the time the Soviet-German War entered 1943, the German army had gradually weakened on the Eastern Front, and Ukrainian nationalists feared that the Soviets and Poles would make a comeback after the defeat of the German army, so they planned to purge the Poles in the territory, which proved to be Ukrainian land.
In this way, all Ukrainians began to go crazy, and even the Orthodox priests who presided over peace (Poles are Catholic) began to call on believers to slaughter poles. Ukrainian nationalist organizations even held a congress to announce the elimination of all non-Ukrainians. In March 1943, the massacre began, when Ukrainian rebels disguised themselves as Soviet guerrillas attacked villages in Warren, and the first massacre killed hundreds of people, even babies nailed to the table with knives!
By the culmination of the massacres in July and August, Ukrainian rebels went door-to-door to kill, torturing even representatives sent by the Polish government-in-exile to death. All traces of the Poles were removed, all Catholic churches (Poles who believe in Catholicism) were burned down, and nearly 100,000 Poles, mostly women and children, were killed in this massacre.
Most tragically, ukrainian husbands had to survive by killing their Polish wives, and Ukrainian men in villages who refused to commit treason against their Polish neighbors! A Ukrainian teenager was sawn alive by his own uncle for refusing to do so. Later, in the spring of 1944, Polish nationalists also began their own revenge, and the Polish-Polish massacre was more brutal in the form of direct hacking with axes or skinning the living. All of this, which should have appeared in the movie, actually happened in real life, and the Warren Massacre became one of the most horrific massacres of World War II.