European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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nearby there was the village of Gałki, where the 72nd Regiment was, smaller, around 500 people.
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So both these regiments fought a whole day battle with the Germans,
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Defeat in Okecie
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In 1943, I got into the Home Army.
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So, unfortunately, I wasn’t fighting with my friends from scout times in the Warsaw Uprising,
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because I was already a Home Army soldier, stationed at the 7th Infantry regiment called ‘Garłuch’ at Okęcie.
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It turns out that the commander of the regiment, major ‘Wysocki’,
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it was his pseudonym, his real name was Babiarz,
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found out that the Germans had fortified the airport strongly.
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They had collected a huge load of arms, machine guns and so on.
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The Home Army had very few weapons, actually none.
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We just had these grenades and our platoon had two machine guns from the WWI, without the feeders.
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