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Our today’s interviewee:
Jan Podhorski (born in 1921 in Budzyń), soldier of the September Campaign, member of the National Armed Forces and the Home Army, participant of the Warsaw Uprising and member of the postwar anti-communist resistance. During the war he was arrested for his underground activities and brutally interrogated by the Gestapo. He escaped in an incredible way: due to a misunderstanding after an interrogation he followed the German officer who questioned him (instead of going back to his cell). German soldiers at five consecutive guard posts let him through, thinking that he had been released. On another occasion he avoided certain death at the hands of the Germans in Grójec because he had a document signed by Hans Frank, declaring that he worked for the military industry. His clandestine operations included sabotaging German trains by changing the stickers with transport destinations, which caused major disturbances in the deliveries to the eastern front. At one point even 200 train cars were travelling back and forth because the Germans couldn't establish what where their proper destinations.
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22 дек 2020
