Poland At War Tours

31/10/2024

About 10 pages off finishing reading this book “N**i Billionaires”. An astonishingly great read - depressing at the same time. However, whilst doing further research on the book, came across this article in Forbes, well worth a read. Never Forget!

In an exclusive excerpt from 'N**i Billionaires,' German entrepreneur Adolf Rosenberger helped the famed car company get rolling in the early 1930s—until Hi**er rose to power.

30/10/2024

27/10/2024

At the end of December 1932, Marian Rejewski read the first information sent through the German cipher machine “Enigma”. The co-authors of breaking the “Enigma” code were Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski.

Breaking the “Enigma” cipher was considered impossible. The Poles achieved success by using a mathematical method instead of linguistic.

The three mathematicians designed a copy of the cipher machine. Copies of the device were created at the AVA Radio Engineering Plant in Warsaw. Several machines connected together formed the so-called cryptologic bomb, designed to automatically break the German cipher.

According to historians, thanks to the fact that the Allies knew the information sent by “Enigma”, World War II lasted 2-3 years shorter.

Breaking the Enigma code helped obtain a lot of vital information and save many lives.

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26/10/2024

The most effective Polish commander in World War II.

“A Polish soldier can fight for the freedom of all nations - he dies only for Poland,” used to say Gen. Maczek, commander of the 1st Armored Division during the struggle to liberate Western Europe from German occupation in 1944.

He fought during World War I, then defended Polish lands against the invasion of the Bolsheviks and Ukrainians.

During World War 2, he was commander of the 10th Cavalry Brigade.

In November, General Władysław Sikorski promoted him to brigadier general and appointed him commander of the 1st Infantry Division being formed in Coëtquidan.

Lieutenant General Stanislaw Maczek - a legend of the Polish Armed Forces - died on December 11, 1994. In accordance with his last will, he was laid to rest among his soldiers at the Polish Honorary Military Cemetery in Breda.

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26/10/2024

Do you know the story of the only black man to have fought for Poland in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising? Click on the latest article to learn more about this incredible man! Never forget!

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24/10/2024

Valley of Death - When they invaded Poland, the Germans had a list of approximately 60,000 Polish Intelligentsia they intended on wiping out as soon as they entered Poland. Get rid of the leaders of a country and your can control the masses - or so the theory goes. Beginning in October and November 1939, the Germans began slaughtering Polish Intelligentsia all over the country but also in the surroundings of Bydgoszcz. In the Valley of Death there is a mass grave with approximately 1,200-1,300 Polish Victims. Whilst we know who committed these crimes, nobody has ever been bought to justice. The main instigator Ludolf von Alvensleben, escaped to Argentina where he lived until he died in 1970. He was sentenced to death in absentia in Poland and had an arrest warrant issued in Munich, but neither could touch him in Argentina. The below photo is of Polish school teachers being led to their ex*****on site. Never ever forget!

23/10/2024

For Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, each round was a fight for life. With his fists he gained another day for himself. For his fellow prisoners, he became a symbol of hope for victory over N**i terror.

At Auschwitz, in order to enforce absolute obedience, prisoners were forced by SS authorities and German functionary prisoners into exhausting exercises.

Combined with pervasive starvation and be***al harassment, prisoners quickly became “muselmann” - extremely emaciated, dehumanized people in striped uniforms. From the first weeks of their stay in the camp, German functionary prisoners fought duels among themselves for their own pleasure and entertainment. In order to make the fights more attractive, they looked for rivals among the sportsmen prisoners.

In March 1941. “Teddy” was the first Pole to fight a victorious fistfight with a German kapo. By 1943, he had fought dozens of victorious bouts, becoming the informal “Auschwitz all-weights champion.” Sporting prisoners increased their chances of survival.

“Teddy”, as a recognized and privileged prisoner, had the opportunity to help and assisted weaker colleagues, including by sharing food. He stood up for the beaten Fr. Maximilian Kolbe.

You can watch a film about “Teddy,” which well depicts the reality of those times.

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19/10/2024

What happened to the N**i Doctors who conducted horrific sterilisation experiments on victims at Auschwitz?

Read my latest Substack Newsletter to find out!

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18/10/2024

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Embark with us on a moving journey through Poland, in the footsteps of some of the darkest moments in human history. From the ruins of bombed-out Warsaw, to ...

18/10/2024

Little Polish ducklings ❤️

15/10/2024

Even Iron Mike loves a trip to Poland 😉

The legendary boxer reminisces about his trip to Poland, recalling his frustration over price negotiations with a local pigeon breeder who quoted a different price than advertised, ultimately questioning whether he would have completed the purchase of 100 pigeons.

12/10/2024

How do we combat WWII & Holocaust denial, distortion, and whitewashing? Read my latest article here.

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12/10/2024

The German concentration camp in Stutthof (Konzentrationslager Stutthof) existed from September 2, 1939 to May 9, 1945. Initially a deportation site for Polish Intelligentsia and people from Pomerania, it began receiving transports of prisoners from all of occupied Europe in early 1942.

For almost six years, more than 110,000 prisoners were deported to Stutthof, from a total of 28 countries. The number of victims is estimated at 65,000, or more than 50% of all who were transported there. From the beginning, Stutthof Concentration Camp was a place for the extermination of the Polish population originating from Pomerania and other Polish lands, prisoners from occupied European countries, prisoners of war from the Eastern Front, and Jews.

The causes of prisoners' deaths were most often the results of exhausting labor, cruel treatment, starvation rations, disease, poor living conditions (overcrowded, unheated barracks), death sentences handed down by the Standgericht (summary court), ex*****ons by shooting and hanging, typhus epidemics, and the fact that a gas chamber was set up in the camp in the summer of 1944.

From then on, Stutthof also became an extermination camp, where, using Zyklon B, SS men killed prisoners. A large number of the prisoners were Poles deported for their participation in underground organizations (the Home Army, the Secret Military Organization “Gryf Pomorski,” the Union of Jaszczurzym, partisan organizations), Polish activists, and participants in the Warsaw Uprising. Prisoners were also killed by phenol injections administered by SS doctors, who also conducted pseudo-medical experiments.

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11/10/2024

Today back at Auschwitz I. Never forget!

10/10/2024

Uliczna kapela dziecięca🎶
🇵🇱Warszawa 1929 r.
Fot. Muzeum Warszawy

09/10/2024

Hey Everyone, Why not come over to Substack and read my longer articles on WWII & the Holocaust. Subscription is free, unless you'd like to shout me a coffee ;-) Never forget!

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07/10/2024

I came across this article over the weekend about what Poles ate during WWII and the Communist years. Food was difficult to come by during both era’s and Pole’s had to make do. The Milk Bars are well and truly back in fashion throughout Poland now. Never Forget!

https://culture.pl/en/article/what-poles-ate-when-there-was-nothing-to-eat

06/10/2024

To fulfill its plan to mass murder European Jews, the SS set up extermination centers whose sole or main task was to kill people in gas chambers. Among them was the Treblinka camp. It was one of three extermination centers participating in Operation Reinhardt, the SS plan to kill nearly two million Jews living in the General Government, the German-administered territory of occupied Poland.

Mainly residents of ghettos in the Warsaw and Radom districts of the General Government were deported to Treblinka.

Between 1942 and 1943, the Germans murdered some 900,000 Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp.

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06/10/2024

Did you see the latest post about the creation of auschwitz-birkenau camp?😄

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The project to create a concentration camp in Auschwitz originated in the Office of the Higher SS and Police Commander in Breslau, headed by Gruppenfuehrer SS Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. The project was proposed as late as the end of 1939 by Oberfuehrer SS Arpad Wigand, an inspector of the security police and security service subordinate to him.📜

The date of the camp's opening is considered to be June 14, 1940. On that day, the first transport of 728 Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from the Tarnów prison.
Upon arrival at Auschwitz, the prisoners were tattooed with numbers 31 through 758.

Camp manager SS Obersturmfuehrer Karl Fritzsch greeted the prisoners with the words: “The healthy and young are allowed to live here for three months. The way out of here is through the chimney.”

By November 1943, Auschwitz had become a huge combine, where tens of thousands of people were imprisoned and hundreds of thousands were murdered, mostly Jews.

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05/10/2024

The project to create a concentration camp in Auschwitz originated in the Office of the Higher SS and Police Commander in Breslau, headed by Gruppenfuehrer SS Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. The project was proposed as late as the end of 1939 by Oberfuehrer SS Arpad Wigand, an inspector of the security police and security service subordinate to him.📜

The date of the camp's opening is considered to be June 14, 1940. On that day, the first transport of 728 Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from the Tarnów prison.
Upon arrival at Auschwitz, the prisoners were tattooed with numbers 31 through 758.

Camp manager SS Obersturmfuehrer Karl Fritzsch greeted the prisoners with the words: “The healthy and young are allowed to live here for three months. The way out of here is through the chimney.”

By November 1943, Auschwitz had become a huge combine, where tens of thousands of people were imprisoned and hundreds of thousands were murdered, mostly Jews.

If you want to visit these places with a guide - sign up for a 9-day tour.👇

https://polandatwartours.wetravel.com/trips/2025-80th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz-tour-room23-tours-sp-z-o-o-44506077?fbclid=IwY2xjawFqckdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZp-UnW63gh-CgEO2TK5wGxo90RoevknuIoToiEDJiJ64_0NobZipdC74w_aem_khHwWfXtNTHBFrG6L2VX9w

04/10/2024

If anyone needed convincing that the legacy of WWII remains alive and well in Poland and other European nations, this article about a dispute between Poland & Ukraine will likely assist in that endeavour. During WWII, the UAP, a Ukrainian nationalist partisan group engaged in ethnic cleansing of Poles in Western Ukraine in an attempt to gain Ukrainian independence from Poland and Russia. Poles are seeking greater recognition & acknowledgement of the massacres by Ukraine. Its a difficult time for it to be resolved given the war in Ukraine, however, when is it a good time! Never Forget!

Poland on Wednesday lauded Ukraine's decision to pave the way for exhumation of some World War II-era victims of massacres by Ukrainian nationalists after the dispute over the issue soured ties between the neighbours.

03/10/2024

Hey Everyone, Don’t forget about out first tour of 2025, commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945. Click on the below article for more details of how to book now! Never Forget!

First Tour of 2025 from 25 January to 2 February 2025

02/10/2024

Today is the anniversary of the death of legendary Ghetto fighter Marek Edelman who passed away 15 years ago today on 2 October 2009 (his date of birth is not exactly known but probably 1919). Edelman was a leader of the Jewish Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and fought bravely in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Then after escaping that hell on Earth, joined the Polish Home Army and fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Edelman somehow survived both Uprisings and WWII and went on to become a Cardiologist after the war. Asked why he did not leave Poland after the war he stated simply, I am Polish, Poland is my home. Edelman is an astonishing example to us all that Jews did fight back, they did not as a whole go like lambs to the slaughter. Let us never forget this extraordinary man! His grave can be visited in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw. Never forget!

01/10/2024

On 1 October 1990, Captain Witold Pilecki was exonerated for the trumped up charges placed upon him by the communist regime. His unbelievable heroism was too much of an inconvenience for the communist regime and he had to be disposed of - he was executed by a shot to the back of the head on 25 May 1948. In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, the highest honour that can be awarded to a Pole. In 2013 he was promoted to Colonel. Historian Norman Davies said of Pilecki “If there was an Allied hero who deserved to be remembered and celebrated, this was a person with few peers”! Never forget!