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 | | Aktion A-B is the contraction for "Ausserordentlichen Befriedungsaktion," special pacification operations that began in the General Government in April 1940 organized to liquidate the Polish intelligentsia, including academics, priests, potential resistance, and individuals defined as "criminals." More than 3,500 members of the resistance and 3,000 "criminals" had been killed by late summer 1940. |
 | | It is analogous to the Nacht und Nebel ("Night and Fog") decree issued on December 7, 1941, for rounding up suspected members of the anti-Nazi resistance and "persons endangering German security" in occupied western Europe. |
 | | On December 16, 1942, Himmler issued his Auschwitz decree on Gypsies, which led to their deportation to and eventual murder in Birkenau. |
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