Edited sentence: As the division progressed towards Warsaw, on September 8 in Nadarzyn a captured Polish major was ordered to dig his own grave before his execution.During an escape attempt he was recaptured and trampled to death by a group of soldiers.In Mszczonowo eleven Polish prisoners (8 in uniforms and 3 in civilian clothing) were shot in public view by the soldiers of the division.On September 3, when a Polish airplane was shot down and its crew taken prisoner.On September 6 yet another Polish prisoner of war was executed in the village of Czermno.The division was responsible for a number of war crimes during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.The first incident occured on September 1, 1939 when the division used civilians as human shields during the battle of Mokra.The following day in the village of Ludwikówka additional two Polish prisoners of war were executed.The last major war crime in the campaign took place on September 18 in the village of Śladów, where the German forces shot and drowned 252 POWs and 106 civillians, some of whom were earlier used as human shields, in the Vistula.The pilot, after being brutally interrogated and tortured was executed