Stanisław Fabijański
Kraków
Kaplica Imienia Jezus
akwarela
1939
War
On 8 October, Germany directly annexed western Poland and the former Free City of Danzig and placed the remaining block of territory under administration of the newly established General Government. The Soviet Union immediately started a campaign of sovietization of the newly acquired areas. This included staged elections, the results of which were used to legitimize the Soviet Union’s annexation of eastern Poland. In the aftermath of the invasion, a collective of underground resistance organizations formed the Polish Underground State within the territory of the former Polish state. Many of the military exiles that managed to escape Poland subsequently joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West, an armed force loyal to the Polish government in exile.
Aviatrix and fighter plane. “Kodachrome.”
Rochester, New York, 1939.
"1 września Niemcy uderzyli. Kilka minut po 5.00 w sztabie Armii “Kraków” zadzwonił telefon. Płk Janusz Gaładyk meldował posłusznie do słuchawki: “…cała dolina Orawy pełna setek czołgów, samochodów pancernych, transportowych, sunących na Jabłonkę, Spytkowice i Czarny Dunajec. Nie zrozumcie mnie źle, 1. pułk KOP spełni rolę Leonidasa, ale myślcie o swoim skrzydle i tyłach."
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Teodor Gąsiorowski
