Victims, mainly Polish
intelligentsia:
teachers,
priests,
office workers, were listed on so called
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen (a list of people destined to be executed, made by
Third Reich officials before
World War II) and another list made by Gestapo during the war. The perpetrators were mainly from the new
Selbstschutz battalions called the
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, a paramilitary formation of civilian shooters composed of men from the German minority of pre-war Poland, as well as the
Einsatzkommando 16 of
SS Einsatzgruppen under command of
SS-Sturmbannführer Rudolf Tröger. Between September 1939 and April 1940 Selbstschutz - together with other Nazi-German formations - murdered tens of thousands of Poles in Pomerania. Established investigations point to
Ludolf von Alvensleben and
Jakub Löllgen, as the main organizers of the mass murder. Other Germans involved in the crime were:
Sturmbannführers Erich Spaarmann, Meier, Schnugg,
SS-Sturmbannführer dr Rudolf Tröger,
SS man Baks, and a number of
Volksdeutsche including Wilhelm Neumann, Herbert Beitsch, Otto Erlichmann (
Nazi mayor of
Fordon), and Walter Gassmann. Other Nazi German mass murder sites in Bydgoszcz area are the villages of
Tryszczyn and
Borówno. ==See also==