POLISH PEASANTRY
DESPERATE STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPRESSORS.
LONDON, July 4. The desperate struggle of the Polish peasantry against the German oppressors, who are using the most inhuman methods to quell all resistance, is revealed by the Polish underground agency “Wies” (“Village”). During the so-called pacification carried out by a German army detachment under the command of General Zimmerman in February and March, Germans burned down 52 villages in the Polesie district, exterminating almost all their inhabitants. During one week alone in June, 184 peasants were shot for resistance. As a retaliation for an attack on German settlers in the Siedliska and Zamese districts, the Germans executed 100 Poles for every one of the killed German settlers. Sixteen peasants were executed in Grobla, near Cracow, as a reprisal for an attack on the police station there. In Starowina, near Rzeszow. where an electricity transformer had been damaged, 10 night watchmen as well as several other people were shot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1943, Page 4
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156POLISH PEASANTRY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1943, Page 4
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