Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from WithinFor 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works at various jobs, maintains a clandestine stopover for Allied couriers, produces Polish-language news bulletins for Poles housed in forced-labour camps, and does everything he can within the heartland of the Third Reich to sabotage the Nazis’ war effort. Among Kamienksi’s many horrific experiences is his survival during the terrible firebombing of Dresden in February 1945. After the war, the author becomes a translator in East Germany for the Russian occupiers, studies at the art academy in Dresden, and eventually finds work as an artist. In 1948, after marrying a German woman, he escapes the Soviet zone, is brutally interrogated in a Polish |
Contents
Escape and Capture | 147 |
Another Escape | 157 |
Return to Dresden | 165 |
THE REICH COLLAPSES | 175 |
Waiting for the | 177 |
Hades | 183 |
Aftermath | 196 |
Final Days | 213 |
IN THE THIRD REICH | 73 |
Getting Started in Dresden | 75 |
My Resistance Work Begins | 88 |
A Close Call and a New Passport | 100 |
The Turning Tide | 109 |
The Choking Moloch | 121 |
IMPROVING FORTIFICATIONS | 135 |
Forced Labour | 137 |
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Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within Jan Kamienski Limited preview - 2008 |
Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within Jan Kamienski Limited preview - 2008 |
Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within Jan Kamienski No preview available - 2017 |