Editing Death by burning (section)

===The Holocaust and German war crimes===
In 1941, Polish natives—in cooperation with German police—locked 340 Jews in a barn and set it on fire during the [[Jedwabne pogrom]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=On This Day: Poles kill 340 Jews in Jedwabne pogrom 81 years ago |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-711642 |access-date=10 May 2023 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |date=10 July 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref> During the 1943 [[Khatyn massacre]], the [[Dirlewanger Brigade|SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger]] and the [[Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118]]—a Germany-sponsored battalion of Ukrainian partisans—locked 149 villagers into a shed and set it on fire.<ref name="ZurGeschichte">Zur Geschichte der Ordnungspolizei 1936–1942, Teil II, Georg Tessin, Dies Satbe und Truppeneinheiten der Ordnungspolizei, Koblenz 1957, s. 172–173</ref><ref name="Grenkevich">{{cite book | author =Leonid D. Grenkevich |author2=David M. Glantz | title =The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941–1944: A Critical Historiographical Analysis | year =1999 | pages =133–134 | publisher =Routledge | location =London | isbn =0714648744 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=spJ4XXyBHewC&q=%22Khatyn+massacre%22&pg=PA133|author2-link=David M. Glantz }}</ref><ref>Per A. Rudling, "Terror and Local Collaboration in Occupied Belorussia: The Case of Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. Part One: Background", Historical Yearbook of the Nicolae Iorga History Institute (Bucharest) 8 (2011), pp. 202–203</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=21 July 2018|title="Khatyn" – The tragedy of Khatyn |url=https://www.khatyn.by/en/tragedy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721192111/https://www.khatyn.by/en/tragedy/|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 July 2018|access-date=22 March 2021}}</ref> The [[Jewish Restitution Successor Organization|World Jewish Restitution Organisation]] reported to ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' that the German staff of [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] burnt children alive in 1944.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Auschwitz children 'burnt alive' |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/auschwitz-children-burnt-alive-1.179084 |access-date=10 May 2023 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> In another 1944 atrocity, the [[Waffen SS]] [[Oradour-sur-Glane massacre|locked 452 French women and children in a church and set it on fire.]] German prosecutors charged an alleged perpetrator of that massacre in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 January 2014 |title=Former SS soldier, 88, charged over 1944 village massacre in France |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-nazi-massacre-idUSBREA071G320140108 |access-date=10 May 2023}}</ref> SS-{{lang|de|[[Sturmbannführer]]}} Adolf Diekmann—commander of the 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment—ordered the massacre, claiming retaliation against French partisans for burning SS-''Sturmbannführer'' Helmut Kämpfe alive.<ref name="ddef">{{cite book|title=Defenders of Fortress Europe: The Untold Story of the German Officers During the Allied Invasion|first=Samuel W.|last= Mitcham|publisher=Potomac Books, Inc.|year= 2009|isbn= 978-1597972741|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CpLfa-OjX9EC&dq=Helmut+K%C3%A4mpfe+body&pg=PT81 66]}}</ref> In April 1945, the [[SS-Totenkopfverbände|SS camp guards]] of [[Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp|Dora-Mittelbau]]—along with local civilian and military authorities—[[Gardelegen massacre|set a barn on fire with more than a thousand inmates trapped inside.]]<ref>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (n.d.). Gardelegen. United States holocaust memorial museum. Retrieved 14 August 2022, from https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gardelegen</ref>