European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I’m in the guerrilla troop, moving away from Warsaw.
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Having crossed the Pilica we reached a village, where a large guerrilla group was stationed in a forest,
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around a thousand soldiers. The25th Piotrków Infantry Regiment.
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‘Lanca’ decided to join this unit, because it was a small group.
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Just around 150 people. The 25th Regiment was quite a big unit. It was a regiment, a thousand people.
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They gave us a warm welcome, they even gave us pay.
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Yet the very first night ‘Lanca’ ordered to saddle up horses, pack the wagons and he retreated from the unit, God knows where.
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In fact, he just took the pay and ran away.
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The good thing was that our commander, lieutenant ‘Osuch’ was on friendly terms with the commander of the regiment in Włodzimierz,
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and he supported us and the major accepted us in the regiment after all.
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In this regiment we secured its position in the village of Mechlin. For almost a month.
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But after this time we went to another place, a bad one, because it was close to a road.
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It ended sadly, because the Germans attacked. It was too close to the road and these people died.
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Yet we luckily were left unharmed. Nobody attacked us.
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Contrary, in the Mechlin village, where we stayed for almost a month,
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they organized a sweep operation, attacking us with all the forces of Kalmucks, those Vlasov followers from the RONA.
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You know, these Soviet troops which were taken prisoner by the Germans and then incorporated in the German army.
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The Germans mainly used them to liquidate the guerrillas, the Warsaw Uprising
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and these people showed incredible cruelty. These were savage people.
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They attacked the Stefanów village, where the 25th regiment was stationed,
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