Operation Heads

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Operation Heads was a World War II Polish underground assassination campaign targeting Nazi officials and collaborators in occupied Poland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Polish underground operation
World War II resistance operation
assassination campaign
alsoKnownAs Akcja Główki
conflict World War II
country Poland
genre clandestine military operation
hasCause German terror policies in occupied Poland
collaboration with Nazi occupation authorities
historicalPeriod 20th century
implementedBy special assassination squads
languageOfName Polish
legalBasis sentences of underground Polish courts
location General Government
occupied Poland
method targeted killings
urban guerrilla warfare
nameMeaning "Heads" referring to people on a death list
notableOperation assassination of August Kretschmann
assassination of Ernst Weffels
assassination of Franz Bürkl
assassination of Herbert Schultz
assassination of SS and police officials in Warsaw
objective assassination of Nazi officials and collaborators
deterrence of collaboration with Nazi authorities
retribution for terror against Polish civilians
opponent Nazi Germany
participant Home Army (Armia Krajowa)
surface form: Armia Krajowa

Home Army
Polish Underground State
partOf Home Army sabotage and diversion campaign
Organization of the Polish underground resistance against Nazi Germany
surface form: Polish resistance in World War II
perpetrator Home Army
surface form: Home Army sabotage units

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plannedBy Polish Underground State
surface form: Polish Underground State courts
result elimination of selected Nazi terror functionaries
psychological impact on German occupation authorities
strengthening of Polish resistance prestige
startTime 1943
target German police collaborators
Gestapo
surface form: Gestapo officers

Nazi officials
Polish collaborators
SS officers
temporalContext German occupation of Poland
victim members of German security apparatus in occupied Poland

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Operation Kutschera partOf Operation Heads