Poland in World War II: An Illustrated History by Andrew Hempel

Author:Andrew Hempel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-05T03:57:00+00:00

German occupation of Poland. Soldiers of the underground Home Army- 27r" Wolhyriian Infantry Division..

German occupation of Poland. Colors detachment platoon of the 6"' company, 26." Infantry Division of the Home Army.

Similarly executed actions on important German purveyors of terror resulted in high Polish casualties; for, in reprisals, the Germans killed great numbers of prisoner hostages. The German terror and Polish counter-terror meted out to the German perpetrators soon developed into a deadly contest of endurance and wills. In 1943 nine successful actions against the cruelest highranking Gestapo officers were carried out. In 1944 six similar assassination operations were successfully executed. During the course of these and other open battles, 361 Gestapo or SS functionaries in 1943, and 584 in 1944, were liquidated by the underground Polish Home Army in Warsaw alone. The Poles won the deadly contest, because after the assassination of Kutschera, the German terror markedly slackened.

The struggle was not confined to the use of firearms or explosives. There was a highly developed underground press, which was printed in underground printing shops. Some papers had a circulation as high as ten thousand. Apart from publications in Polish, underground printing shops also printed booklets and leaflets in impeccable German, purporting to come from secret anti-Hitler German organizations located in Germany. These booklets and leaflets exposed the hopelessness of continued struggle against the Allies (Action "N" carried out by the underground Information Department). Underground printing shops made posters in German with false information, including one such order in February 1944 calling for all Germans to evacuate GG. and another order to register all household cats.

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