History
Between the first hours of the Nazi invasion of Poland, following the bombing of the city of Krakow, the German panzers arrived under the command of Maj. Rudolph Kreutzmann who hit a military convoy including some Red Cross vans. When a soldier told him that there were also civilians in the convoy, he said that it was regrettable but that that sector had to be secured and that they should keep shooting until the Poles surrendered.[1]