Żegota

"The Council for Aid to Polish Jews"

[Guest Publication]

Hans Stanislav Kopec -Gdansk 

English language revisions by Carmelo Lisciotto

Poland was the principal focus of military transport for the Germans after June 1941. The country acted as a conduit for the front in Russia. Therefore, there were many targets for the Polish resistance movement and from June 1941 to December 1941, they destroyed 1,935 railway engines, derailed 90 trains, blew up three bridges and set fire to 237 transport lorries.

However, such success came at a cost as the reprisals by the Germans was savage in the extreme. In fact, so extreme was the German reaction, that the Polish resistance all but ended its work for about 10 months in 1942. The SOE in London could not effectively assist the Poles because the distance was simply too great for operation teams to overcome.

But by 1942, there was little doubt among the leaders of the Polish Underground and the younger members of the Jewish Underground that the Germans planned nothing less than the total extermination of the Jewish people.

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