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Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 27: Warsaw - Last Days Before The Uprising Part Two

Crowds were proudly passing the barbed entanglements, in trams people disregarded the notices "for...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 28: Warsaw Uprising

Most of them never returned, especially those who were caught by the uprising whilst in central Warsaw or...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 29: Warsaw Uprising Part Two

Our banner was flying on the Town Hall .. and everyone knows that the German situation is quite hopeless .....

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 30: Warsaw Uprising Part Three

Where is the entrance to the basement?" asked a German voice with a cock of the rifle and a door...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 31: Warsaw Uprising Part Four

When the uprising started the Germans opened a few doors and drove the prisoners into the yard, telling...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 32: Warsaw Uprising Part Five

We the Polish Soviet workers who have mounted the barricades to fight for Poland's freedom against the...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 33: Warsaw Uprising Part Six

That afternoon when German soldiers again came to our yard our women surrounded them, asking them to allow...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 34: Warsaw Uprising Part Seven

Germans in full battle dress rushed into our yard and told us to go down to the basement as a battle was...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 35: Warsaw Uprising Part Eight

Taking only the most essential things, especially the remaining food, we locked the door and, accompanied...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 36: Warsaw Uprising Part Nine

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Marushka and Zygmunt Skarbek-Kruszewski and...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 37: Ultimatum

ULTIMATUM To the people of Warsaw: The German High Command wants to avoid unnecessary bloodshed which will...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 38: Modlin

We came from Warsaw looking for some place in Modlin which was now a stepping stone on our war...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 39: Modlin Part Two

German aeroplanes tossed masses of them over the town, villages and fields. It was an appeal by the German...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 40: Modlin Part Three

My husband was taken into the German Army, the children were told to go to a German school and here, in...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 41: Modlin Part Four

Below was printed: "Fleeing from the heavy street fighting and fires, the Warsaw civilians are coming...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 42: Modlin Part Five

The airfield, full of planes, was very close, behind the orchard was the German artillery, tanks were...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 43: Modlin Part Six

The town, once Polish, was now a German town, indistinguishable from other towns in Prussia... The first...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 44: In The Third Reich

There was also a large group of educated Lithuanians who, fleeing the Front, came to Dresden - people from...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 45: In The Third Reich Part Two

The work was firstly in the factory of Mr. Heim, producing parts for planes, secondly a large...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 46: In The Third Reich Part Three

The Polish group needs some explanation as it had two kinds of people - the Poles with a letter...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 47: In The Third Reich Part Four

Goebbels in the paper 'Reich' was speaking about the new reborn power of the German Army......

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 48: In The Third Reich Part Five

The Dutchmen told it to the Russians in German, the Russians repeated it in Russian to the Poles and the...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 49: In The Third Reich Part Seven

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Marushka and Zygmunt Skarbek-Kruszewski and...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 50: Capitulation!

When the French banner started to wave from the tower of the Town Hall there was no end of cheering... In...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 51: Peace

People were crowding, craning their necks, reading about the victorious processions of the army, about the...

Bellum Vobiscum -Chapter 52: Peace Part Two

London was speaking in German, Luxemburg in English, Warsaw in Russian... After a lengthy speech justifying...

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