After bombing universities across the country, rounding up and killing professors, teachers and intellectuals, the occupant set their sights on the most prestigious university of Poland. Part of the larger INTELIGENZAKTION Germans launched Sonderaktion Krakau (special operation Cracow) in order to erase Polish culture.
On November 3 in occupied Cracow SS-Sturmbannführer Bruno Müller ordered the Rector of the Jagiellonian University to call a general meeting of the faculty for November 6, ostensibly to listen to a lecture on the German point of view on the issues of science and higher education.
It was a lure. With 183 professors present Müller dropped the pretenses:
"The university began its academic year without obtaining the consent of the German authorities. This is an act of malice. Furthermore, it is common knowledge that the professors have always been hostile to German science. These are the reasons why you will all be taken to a concentration camp ... Any discussion or even comment on this matter is forbidden. Anyone who dares to resist my orders will be shot."
The SS criminals beat the professors onto awaiting trucks. They were carted off to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp...
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