Image: Announcement of death of 100 of Polish hostages executed in occupied Warsaw after the death of Franz Kutschera (February 1944)

Description: German announcement in occupied Poland (dated 2nd February 1944), signed by Commandant of SD and Sicherheitspolizei in Warsaw – SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Hahn, informing about the execution of 100 of Polish hostages as a reprisal for death of 2 Germans in Warsaw. In fact those hostages were executed in retaliation of death of SS and Police Leader in Warsaw, SS-Brigadeführer Franz Kutschera, who was killed by soldiers of Armia Krajowa on 1st February 1944.
Title: Announcement of death of 100 of Polish hostages executed in occupied Warsaw after the death of Franz Kutschera (February 1944)
Credit: Władysław Bartoszewski, "Warszawski pierścień śmierci 1939-1944", Interpress, Warszawa 1970.
Author: German nazi security police (de: Sicherheitspolizei, SiPo)
Permission: This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements: it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States, it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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