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He replied, that the Germans kept police cars and other military trucks under the bridge.
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And we were supposed to set them on fire.
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My brother says: ‘Listen, we’ve got this unpleasant situation, I have this present for you.
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In case they catch you and beat the hell out of you, or they massacre you too much so you can’t stand it anymore,
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then here is this vial, a small glass bottle…’ – it looked like an injection vial – ‘…just bite it.’
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I tell him: ‘Don’t be silly, I’ll get cuts.’
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And he: ‘It won’t matter to you anyway, as soon as you bite it you die.’ It was cyanide.
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My task, as they later told me, was to walk along the pavement in the same way
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as the watch guard did guarding those trucks.
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He was quite visible wearing a white coat.
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It was October, but the Germans cared about their soldiers, they dressed them well.
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And this guard would mostly walk from Dobra street in the direction of the city, then to the right and back.
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I was supposed to walk on the opposite side of the street, seeing his white coat.
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They told me to smoke a cigarette and, watching the spark from my cigarette, they knew where I was and thus were the guard was.
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Depending how far away he moved, they were able to plant the firebombs, usually between the wheel and the mudguard.
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Rubber is flammable. If this catches fire, then there’s no stopping it.
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It worked out fine. We were able to see if we had succeeded only the following day.
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I used to go to school at Powiśle, in Sewerynów street and I had this friend there who lived at 3, Trzeciego Maja Alley,
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that’s right opposite the place where those German trucks were stationed.
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And this friend, Jurek Suchanek from the scout troops and my classmate, told me:
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