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Word: straczynski (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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After the bomb explosions came screams of the dying. Hospitals were full; wounded had to be dragged into what was left of private houses. The city was crumbling, but still Warsaw fought on, both sexes and all ages behind the barricades. Mayor Straczynski went down into the streets, picked up a shovel and dug trenches. When German tanks blasted their way into the suburbs, the defense hurled bottles of gasoline against them, trying to set them afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Blitzkrieger | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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