>Frank feared an upsurge of nationalist resistance during the invasion of France. To forestall this, 30,000 members of the Polish elite were rounded up and imprisoned, and more than 3,000 were shot. The so-called AB Action (Special Pacification Operation) was ‘intended to finish off at an accelerated pace the mass of the rebellious resistance politicians and other politically suspect individuals in our hands’, Hans Frank confessed.
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