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Chapter IV: Resistance

pp. 167-240


1
.
See Norman Davies, ‘The Insurrectionary Tradition’,
Heart of Europe: a short history of Poland
(Oxford, 1984, rev. ed. 2002), pp. 166-73.

2
.
Casimir Delavigne, ‘La Varsovienne’ (1830), in
Œuvres Complètes
(Paris, 1855), pp. 522-3. Translated into Polish by Karol Sienkiewicz, and set to music by Karol Karpi
ski. See Norman Davies,
God’s Playground
(Oxford, 1981), vol. II, pp. 315-17.

3
.
M. Ney-Krwawicz,
The Polish Army, 1939-45
(London, 2001), p. 4.

4
.
See L. Bartelski,
Mokotów, 1944
(Warsaw, 1971) and J. Kłoczowski, ‘Dowódca Baszty o swoim pułku’, in
Pa
stwo, Ko
ciøł, niepodległo
(Lublin, 1986), p. xi.

5
.
‘Hubal’, the pseudonym of Maj. Henryk Dobrza
ski (1896-1940), who, with Bór-Komorowski, had been a member of the Polish equestrian team at the Berlin Olympics.

6
.
T. Strzembosz,
Rzeczpospolita podziemna
(Warsaw, 2000), p. 23.

7
.
Łód
was a city of mixed population – roughly 60% Polish, 30% Jewish and 10% German. Only the local Germans turned out to welcome the arriving Wehrmacht.

8
.
D. Levin,
The Lesser of Two Evils: Eastern European Jewry under Soviet rule, 1939-41
(Philadel phia/Jerusalem, 1995), p. 43.

9
.
Ibid.

10
.
‘Raport Jana Karskiego o sytuacji
ydów na okupowanych ziemiach polskich na pocz
tku 1940 r’,
Dzieje najnowsze
(Warsaw, 1989), nr. 2, pp. 179-99.

11
.
Ibid., p. 194.

12
.
Carla Tonini,
Operazione Madagascar: la questione ebraica in Polonia, 1918-68
(Bologna, 1999), p. 165.

13
.
Stanisław Rosa, of the PPS, in Kraków. Jan Karski,
The Story of a Secret State
(Boston, 1944), p. 190.

14
.
‘Hymn Pierwszej Brigady’ (1917-18), A. Hałasi
ski, T. Biernacki: in effect, the anthem of Pilsudski’s Legions and subsequently of the interwar Polish army: banned 1945-90.

15
.
P. Stachiewicz,
Geneza Oddziału ‘Parasol’
(Warsaw, 1984), pp. 43-62.

16
.
Karski,
Secret State
, op. cit., p. 129.

17
.
Ibid., p. 132.

18
.
Ibid., passim.

19
.
Ibid., pp. 127-8.

20
.
Ibid., p. 258.

21
.
A. Borkiewicz,
Powstanie Warszawskie
(Warsaw, 1957), as reproduced in T. Strzembosz, op. cit., Table IX, pp. 159-60.

22
.
Dispositions as of 1 March 1944, after Kirchmayer (1957): extracted from T. Strzembosz, op. cit., Table XIII, p. 164. Numbers in brackets indicate skeleton platoons still in formation.

23
.
Jan Nowak-Jeziora
ski, as recorded in the TV film
Powstanie Warszawskie
(1994) and as interviewed on TV Polonia, January 2002.

24
.
After Karski, op. cit., p. 270.

25
.

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