On 12 September , Wilhelm Keitel added Cause_to_be_included Poland 's intelligentsia to the list .

The top secret lists identified Check more than 61,000 members of the Polish elite : activists , intelligentsia , scholars , clergy , actors , former officers and others , who were to be interned Arrest or shot Use_firearm .

It pursued Aiming the systematic elimination Removing of nationalist Bengali civilians , students , intelligentsia , religious minorities and armed Bearing_arms personnel .

Intelligenzaktion ( , `` Intelligentsia action '' ) was a secret mass murder Killing conducted Action by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia ( teachers , priests , physicians , `` et al . '' )

Among the 100,000 people killed Killing in the `` Intelligenzaktion '' operations , approximately 61,000 were of the Polish intelligentsia , whom the Nazis identified Check as political targets in the Special Prosecution Legality Book-Poland , compiled before the war began in September 1939 .