File:The Bochnia massacre German-occupied Poland 1939.jpg

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Description	English: The execution of 56 Polish citizens in Bochnia, near Kraków, during German occupation of Poland, December 18, 1939 in a reprisal for an attack on a German police office two days earlier by the underground organization "White Eagle". Deutsch: Erschießung von 56 polnischen Zivilisten im polnischen Bochnia (nahe Krakau / Kraków) durch Soldaten der Wehrmacht am 18. Dezember 1939 als Vergeltung für einen Angriff auf eine von Deutschen betriebene Polizeistation, bei der die Untergrundorganisation "Weißer Adler" zwei Tage zuvor zwei Deutsche getötet hatte. Polski: Egzekucja 56 Polaków w Bochni koło Krakowa 18 grudnia 1939 roku.
Date	18 December 1939
Source	Zbiory NAC on-line Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Poland. Jerzy Piorkowski (1957) Miasto Nieujarzmione, Warsaw: Iskry, pp. 40 no ISBN Tadeusz Mazur, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Stanisław Wrzos-Glinka (1958) 1939-1945 Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego. Zdjecia - Dokumenty, Warsaw: Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, pp. 19 no ISBN Maria Turlejska (1966) Prawdy i fikcje: Wrzesień 1939 - Grudzień 1941, Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, pp. s. 200 no ISBN
Author	album of a captured German officer. Other photo(s) from the album may have been copied by Stanislaw Broskewicz, a photo developer working for the Germans.

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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.

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it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).

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2007-09-26 12:47 HanzoHattori 480×316× (40455 bytes) The German execution of 51 Polish hostages in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi police station by the underground organization "White Eagle" Source: [http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-tasks.htm Holocaust Timeline] Nazi criminals have n
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	12:49, 18 May 2007	1,100 × 715 (558 KB)	Spetsedisa	{{Information \|Description=The Bochnia massacre during German occupation of Poland, 18`th december 1939 \|Source= Tadeusz Mazur, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Stanisław Wrzos-Glinka " Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, 1939-1945", Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowni