Courier from Warsaw

Courier from Warsaw

https://archive.org/details/courierfromwarsa0000nowa/page/81/mode/1up?view=theater

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Nowak-Jeziora%C5%84ski

Kurier z Warszawy

https://archive.org/details/kurierzwarszawy0000jann/mode/1up?view=theater

Notes

• 357 - Warsaw peeps did not want to capitulate aft 62 days
• 358 They failed to shoot their dog. Gun misfired thrice. Dog survived evac.
• 356 sewer guides were necessary so people don't get lost
• 355/ Polish general even gave Russians a phone connection. They never called.
• 351 it got so FUBAR that the only safe space was hugging close to e emy soldiers free from bombardment or howitzers
• 348/electricity went out. Grenade micro factory had a generator, so they could continued UE to broadcast
• 347 - Bor - looked like shit after going through canals for 30 days. Propaganda war vs Russians was crucial throughout.
• 346 gruesome.scenes of AK vs howitzers. It turned out thus move was completely unnecessary - they were able to squeeze out through the canals a day later
• 342 ruskis prevented London planes from landing to refuel
• 341 - unexploded shell - with 300 kg of explosives. Was used to make grenades. Grenades and carbines of their own production.
• 337 instead of couriers, started using shortwave in Warsaw to communicate
• 335 this was the first and only case where radio reporting was delivered straight from a occupied battlefield
• 334 air drops. Russians did not protect English planes. Aft 2 weeks, radio messages were from nally picked up in London. 100W.
• 327 German firebombing starts, Russian fighter planes stop, Russian arty stops. This is day 4. Concept: inform London of Uprising, or Ruskis will deny it ever happened
• 325 tribunal and execution of Nazi traitor
• 324 excitement like never before or after
• 323 barricades made spontaneously, rapidly, by hand. Armored vehicle comes, with PW
• 322 -rather chaotic. No mans land. Some buildings captured by Poles, some by Germans.
• 320 - uprising starts. Many armored vehicles ambushed. Polish flag up on prudential building,
• 318 uprising would help Bolsheviks take warsaw, some critiqued
• 316 if powstanie did. Of happen, Russian commies would fake one.
• 314 - and Russian propaganda says that AK left. Trying together control of politics.
• 312 - polish brigade will not save Warsaw - it will be on the western front
• 308 - arty near Warsaw, from the russians. Germans are retreating.
• 305 - germans are bagging it up.and leaving en masse, 1944. But poles are oblivious to incoming Russian terrorists
• 304/ 100 armed peasants, hanging out at night, serve the 'bridge'. Polish spirit is visible.
• 303 - peasant battalions receive them
• 300 Landing. Runway lit by fire.
• 298 - Colonel Hudson was dropped into Poland after red army took over. Imprisoned, freed after Yalta.
• 296 2% of airdrops went to Poland. Political bullshit. But during the Uprising, most of our pilots lost their lives supplying Warsaw
• 295 - as soon as Russians entered, they created Armia Ludowa to further undermine Polish independence.
• sosnkowski thought it would be genocide in Poland, a la Ukraine.
• 290 - poles were open to showing world that they are also fighting for their own land - via an uprising. Or even standing up to Russian terror militarily. But another strategy was to conform to allied wishes of not pissing off Russia.
• 283 - interest in allies helping AK went away after Normandy success
• 280 - thought Warsaw would not believe the betrayal. Because clearly it is against the western interest, and thus defies logic.
• 276 - UK was to leave the war weaker than it entered. East Europe was never its interest, outside of German and Russian troubles. For reason of weakness, england can only appease.
• 275 Tatar byl naiwnym prymitywem politicznym, I rusofilem
• there was a chasm between united Poland and disunited London poles
• 271 - Greenwood said chuchi is a treat leader, will win war, but not a good politician. Therefore, will lose the peace as soviet terror replaces the Nazi terror.
• 270 - Churchill, when asked for guarantee of independence, replied 'pomozemy', but regardless ng territorial integrity, NFW
• 263 - meeting did not go well, chuchi was not so interested.
• 258 Succeeded in private meeting with chuchi
• 256 - of all poles, the Polish a nation guys had the hardest psychological conditions
• 254 London poles were preoccupied with Russian danger, while Poland poles were preoccupied with German danger.
• Discussion about Zbik was a hit. It was almost censored, according to post war documents released
• 252 - Jan was invited for interviews on BBC. He talked bout Zbik.
• 251 - Yugilslavian news was also distorted politically.
• Polish radio was censored. Border issues or wilno were not discussed.
• 249- polskie radio BBC was an arm of the Polish gummit in exile
• 247 - Jan Karski interpreted the sitch most accurately: withdrawal of the recognition of the Polish Govt in exile etc.
• 512 - Mr. Morton - was he a Russian spy or agent, is still not known. This is an important question and a good subject for School's Investigative Journalism 101. Important because we should know the real story of how one country went under 50 years of slavery.
• 244 Yugoslav resistance delayed track on Moscow by a month and by a winter, which saved Russia
• 240 - intrigue in the meeting with English officials - misrepresentation to Churchill. Was this Russian infiltration?
• 237 warsW poles were deluded that London would help. Courier heard it first in London.
• 232 already had to fight tankies (leftists who gobbled up soviet propaganda)
• 231 - Rosja przechodzi olbrzymia ewolucje - Barrington-Ward
• Tehran was worse than what Chuchi and Eden communicated to the poles
• 221 since hit would come from the west, Poland was basically forgotten
• 220 polish planes bombed Berlin instead of doing airdrops to poland
• 219Separate peace between Russia And Germany scared the English
• Polish publicity in London sucked, while rimussian propaganda brought its rotten fruit
• 215 - Jan Karski - Story of a Secret State.
• 213 half of 1943, ammo drops stopped
• 211 kknsporacja nie wstrzyma sie wobec rodzimej infiltracji prosowieckiego elementu
• No serious underground existed in germany
• 209 Chuchi said he won't defend border, but will defend independence of Poland
• 206 - met Pres. Raczkiewicz
• Ruskis faked distrust of the West as a strategy for land grabs
• But england did not defend Poland's sovereignty at the end either
• Mikolajczyk strat - do not piss off West. Let Russia take a bite so the Curzon line doesnt become a trap of Poles not cooperating at all and losing favor with West
• 204 - Anglicy operuja nie wyobraznia, ktorej im brak, lecz empiryzmem.
• 202 mikolajczyk - fuck the borders, just give us independence
• 200 sockets ran anti Sosnkowski propaganda in London papers
• P199 Shows interesting source on the sellout of Poland by the West. Possibility of. Becoming the 17th Soviet republic was real, and was recognized not in form but in fact
• Anglos gave up on the AK. To save face, they made it look like the Poles fault
• Mikolajczyk nie byl kalibru churchilla I edena
• 197 Anglos already defined spheres of influence. Forget that they went to war because of Poland in the first place. Aerial Drops of weapons were stopped.
• Warsaw and London poles were in 2 different world
• There were two intriguing factions of Poles in London
• 196 - first talks on the home sitch were eaten up by the enlightened poles