I-52. PARADE IN FRONT OF THE FÜHRER

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At two o'clock on the afternoon of September 27, Warsaw surrendered; 140,000 Polish soldiers, more than 36,000 of them wounded, were taken into captivity. For the next three days, the Germans made no effort to enter the city. 'They are afraid', a Polish officer wrote in his diary, 'to march their soldiers into a city which has no light and no water and is filled with the sick and the wounded and the dead.'Hundreds of wounded Polish soldiers and civilians died who might have been saved, had medical help been offered to them.

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 14.

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