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...1940s. In recent years he was protected by friends in high places. But early this year an Argentine judge took up the extradition request that was lodged by West Germany 14 years ago and eventually caught up with him. The former commander of a labor camp for Jews at Przemysl, Poland, will stand trial in West Germany for murdering hundreds...
Nonetheless, workers of the region counterpunched with a pair of "warning strikes" to protest the police action. About 100 small factories around Przemysl were shut down for an hour early last week. Workers also laid down their tools for two hours at 30 plants in and around Rzeszow, a city of 100,000 near the Soviet border. Rzeszow labor leaders warned that the whole southeastern part of the country would go out on strike if police tried to clear out the 350 demonstrators who have occupied the offices of the old party-controlled Trade Unions Council for the past three...
During the building battle, Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk of Przemysl called on the people to "break the line of fear." No Catholic in his diocese, he decided, should have to walk more than 2½ miles to church. Starting in the mid-1960s, his parishioners would secretly assemble small, prefab churches, then put them together overnight without permission. In the morning the authorities would be presented with an act of faith accompli. A day came when the bishop was led off to be fined at the prosecutor's office for his actions, but such a noisy phalanx of Catholic housewives...
...still on furlough in the Ukraine, which is about as ironically far as the you-can't-win theme has ever been taken by a war novelist. The soldier, Andreas, is a kind of displaced poet in uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...