1941 Murder of Polish professors in Lviv
75 years ago, on July 4, 1941, in Lviv, the German invaders shot more than 40 representatives of the Polish intelligentsia, including professors from Lviv University. The massacre was carried out by the Einsatzkommando for special purposes, headed by the chief of the Security Police and SD in the General Government, SS Oberführer Karl Eberhard Schöngart, with the assistance of the field gendarmerie. Schongart was sentenced to death by a British military tribunal and hanged on May 16, 1946.