Robert Kolakowski Day 11 and 12 \/// Dzien 11 i 12: Battle of Gdynia, a village turned modern sea port by the Poles and Kashubs during the 1920’s, and fighting on the Hel Peninsula continue. The Battle of Bzura continues. General Kutrzeba who leads two Polish armies ignores an obsolete order to withdraw to the Romanian Bridgehead through Radom, and continues to attack in the direction of Lodz^^^. Radom had been taken and the German 8th army was already entrenched. Army Warsaw does push back the German forces and is the attacking side carrying minor (counter--) offensive to push the Germans farther from the Polish capitol. Hungary does not allow transfer of the German troops. Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Lithuania take a position of friendly neutrality towards Poland (you learn of your true friends during war, you sign treaties with your friend—lees: France and Great Britain). Great Britain and France, in Abbeville (it was liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division in 1944) , decide not to help Poland and together decided to stop any military activity against the Germans. The very decision was bad enough, but not informing the Poles of the decision was criminal. German planes drop bombs and strafe civilians within yards of the foreign embassies in Warsaw. First German troops reach Lviv (Lwow) and once again, the Germans rush to assume that the Polish forces in the southern Poland have been destroyed. However, the battles of Lviv/Lwow, the battles of Tomaszow Lubelski I and Tomaszow Lubelski II are yet to begin. >>> Kutrzeba’s two armies come very close to the retaking of Lodz. However, the Germans become aware of the extent of the Polish counterattack and move to the area most of their armored units and 40% of all ground units. This means that if very two armies were to take Lodz, they would face annihilation. Moreover and more importantly, Kutrzeba learns that Army Lodz was partly destroyed and that majority of her units have fallen back to Modlin near Warsaw. This means that he cannot count on their support. Kutrzeba still decides to take a neighborhood of Lodz to make already loaded onto trucks, command center of the German Army, drive around. However, the attack cannot take place because the soldiers do assemble, but many have marched while asleep. Kutrzeba, with the last chance to move to the eastern Poland lost, decided to change the direction of the counteroffensive and attempts to enter the area of Warsaw and Modlin. In Poland, to be great, one must create an image of being a nobody. This was done successfully by Mr. Mr. Pilsudski and Kutrzeba. This gave them an advantage with the soldiers and the public over such persons as Dmowski and Rydz-Smigly. youtube/watch?v=hyieEm5L-zg
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 03:46:44 +0000
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