Counter-Attack Comments

On 27 January 1945 the Red Army had just been defeated in an armour engagement with the 20th Panzer Division, which was retreating to escape encirclement slightly south of Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia. Two villages were punished for the defeat: Preiswitz, populated by Poles, and neighbouring Schönwald, populated by Germans. In total,200 innocent civilians were murdered in cold blood.
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