File:Polish Priest as a German Hostage 1939.jpg

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Description	English: Polish Priest and other Polish civilians as German hostages awaiting execution in Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 1939 Polski: Aresztowani Polacy czekający na rozstrzelanie na Starym Rynku w Bydgoszczy (wrzesień 1939).
Date	September 1939
Source	Apoloniusz Zawilski (1972) "Bitwy Polskiego Września" ("Battles of Polish September"), Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia ISBN 83-218-0817-4 (current edition) Maria Turlejska (1966) Prawdy i fikcje: Wrzesień 1939 - Grudzień 1941, Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, pp. s. 200 no ISBN Yad Vashem Photo Archive
Author	unknown Polish citizen of Bydgoszcz
Permission (Reusing this file)	PD-Polish

This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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