Dead Polish Hero Scorned
LIBERATOR’S STATUE WRECKED LONDON, Dec. 3. Even the memory of Tadeusz Kosciusko, the greatest of Polish heroes, who led the fight against Russia at the end of tho eighteenth century, has not been spared by the Nazis. Tho Germans, says the Riga correspondent of tho Times, have blown up and demolished the Kosciusko monument in the Liberty Square, Lodz. The Nazis describe this national memorial as the “sole Polish monument disfiguring a German town. Uebelhoer, tho new Nazi head of the district, declared himself as a soldier who was was ruthlessly determined to carry out tho Fuhrer’s will. He said that the Germans were masters and would behave as such and that tho Poles were servants and must only serve. The Germans, he added, would enforce blind obedience and ruthless fulfilment of orders.
“Germans,” he continued, “must inject iron into their spines and never admit the idea that Poland will ever arise again.” As a symbol of this situation, Germans have blown up the Kosciusko statue.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 8
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