I-23. POLISH PRISONERS AND HORSES CAPTURED IN LODZ

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[…] near the western Polish industrial city of Lodz, the last of the Polish defenders were still seeking to bar the German advance. Their adversaries, ss fighting troops, noted how, that afternoon, at Pabianice, 'the Poles launched yet another counter-attack. They stormed over the bodies of their fallen comrades. They did not come forward with their heads down like men in heavy rain - and most attacking infantry come on like that - but they advanced with their heads held high like swimmers breasting the waves. […]’.

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 9.

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