AD AKTION (Ausserordentliche Befriedungsaktion; Extraordinary
Pacification Action). Code name for the liquidation of Polish
intellectuals and leaders after the German invasion of Poland in 1939.
The task was entrusted to Hans Frank as Governor-General and to his
deputy, Artur Seyss-Inquart (qq.v). More than 2,000 Polish men and
women were apprehended from September 1939 to June 1940 and summarily
executed. A ruthless killer, Frank kept thorough records of his work
in a forty-two-volume journal. Many Jews were among his victims.

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Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, by Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Professor of
History, The City College and The City University of New York. Paragon
House, New York, 1989. ISBN 1-55778-144-3
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