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The Goliath On August 13th, at Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy), insurgents captured a tracked vehicle resembling a small tank. To the great delight of the residents, the „tank” paraded through half of the Old Town. However, the captured vehicle was actually a Goliath tracked mine—a remote-controlled explosive carrier. Likely, while attempting to navigate a small […]
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„Wigry” in the Old Town Between August 2 and 6, the second wave of the „Wigry” Battalion was formed in the Old Town (Starówka). A women’s sanitary and liaison platoon was also organized, led by Dr. Izabela Niedźwiedzka, known as „Bela.” In buildings at 7 Długa Street and 23 Podwale Street, the women established the […]
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The Beginning On the day the Warsaw Uprising broke out, the concentration point for the „Wigry” battalion was the Old Town (Starówka). The battalion’s state of armament was dire. The „Wigry” soldiers had only a small number of pistols, grenades, and a few rifles. Just before the „W” hour (the start of the uprising), only […]
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The Underground Organization „Wigry” The name of the scouting battalion „Wigry” derives from the elite scout instructor courses organized since 1924 by the Warsaw scout district in the forests by Lake Wigry. In the early 1930s, as Polish Scouting became increasingly politicized, the group of Warsaw instructors led by Władysław Ludwig—long-time commander of these courses—resisted […]
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