European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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a great many people were dying.
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In concentration camps, in the streets.
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Many people were arrested.
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And once we knew who was to blame for that, then this somebody had to be liquidated immediately.
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Tadeusz’s first serious action
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The head was this socialist poet, Mr ‘Hagen’ was his pseudonym.
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We called him ‘Robert’.
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I guess he was the commander of the group.
So he praised me a lot and asked if I wanted to go for a real sabotage job. -
I, naturally, said yes.
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‘Then please wait for further orders.
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And when time comes and the weather is dark enough, then we’ll do a job under the Poniatowski bridge.’
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Later I asked my brother Jerzy what kind of action it was supposed to be.
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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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