Editing Heinz Reinefarth (section)

===Warsaw Uprising===
After the outbreak of the [[Warsaw Uprising]], Reinefarth was ordered to organise a military unit consisting of personnel from various security units and head for [[Warsaw]]. Upon arrival, his forces ([[Kampfgruppe]] Reinefarth) were included in the Korpsgruppe von dem Bach of General [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]] who was ordered by [[Heinrich Himmler]] to quell the rebellion. From 5 August 1944, Reinefarth's group took part in mass murders in the undefended [[Wola]] area.

====Murder of civilians====
[[File:Victims of Wola Massacre.jpg|thumb|Polish civilians murdered in the [[Wola massacre]]. Warsaw, August 1944.]]
In two days, the units of Reinefarth, which included the notorious [[Dirlewanger Brigade|SS-Sonderregiment Dirlewanger]] under SS-Oberführer [[Oskar Dirlewanger]], murdered approximately 60,000 civilian inhabitants of Warsaw in what is known as the [[Wola massacre]]. In one of his reports to the commander of the German 9th Army Reinefarth stated that ''"we have more prisoners than ammunition to kill them"''.<ref name="Jacek Tebinka, ibidem">Jacek Tebinka, ''ibidem''.</ref> After securing the Wola area, his troops took part in heavy fighting against the [[Armia Krajowa]] in the Old Town. In September, his forces were transferred to attack the boroughs of [[Powiśle, Warsaw|Powiśle]] and [[Czerniaków]], where they committed further atrocities, including killing of POWs and wounded found in military hospitals. In all 150,000–200,000 Polish civilians were killed during the uprising. For his actions during the Warsaw Uprising Reinefarth was awarded the [[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross|Oak Leaves]] to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 30 September 1944.