August 25th, 2023

Arrested by German Socialists in his monastery-turned-concentration-camp in Górka Klasztorna, Father Piotr Zawada was transported to Paterek, where he was executed, November 11, 1939, during the Paterek Massacre in which over 200 ethnic Poles, including teachers, craftsmen, merchants, priests and entire families with children, were executed during the in October and November 1939.
The Paterek Massacre was only one during the Intelligenzaktion (Intelligence Action, Intelligentsia mass shootings), when the ethnic Polish intellectuals -- considered enemies of the Reich -- were massacred, to Germanize western Poland for future annexation, as part of its Lebensraum ("Living Space" needed for the food supply of the German people) propaganda used to justify expansion.