; more.........................Battle for the "Michał" mine, 1939.
End of the fighting.
Stanisław Rzepus writes:
“Wanting to make sure that everyone had fallen, I took 4 soldiers and went to search the warehouse facilities. On both sides of the attic 27 people lay dead. In addition, a German was rescued hiding behind a box and numerous pistols, hand grenades and several dozen boxes of ammunition were found. On the first floor three Germans were taken out hiding behind shelves, and in the next room two more Germans were taken out. Up to five people managed to hide in the office. In total, 43 members of the "freikorps" were taken prisoner in the warehouse. There were 28 dead, including Major Pisarski. As it turned out, the lieutenant who died was torn to pieces by grenades in the warehouse. Death surprised him on the stairs. […]
To ensure complete certainty about the cleanliness of the site, a meeting was held with the mayor and the then director of the site. Krajewski met and then a detailed examination of the area was carried out with the participation of the military. Other Germans were found hiding, namely: in the compressors - 2, in the boiler room - 12, in the cooling tower - 2 and in the sorting room - 18. Of course, they were all taken prisoner.
At night, another 6 Germans were discovered in the underground channels, and the next day, several more who hid in the mine's boiler room. Benedykt Okoń sums up:
“On the battlefield there were 29 dead Nazis and a dozen wounded. Among the dead was also Hauptsturmführer Willy Pissarski. On the Polish side, 2 officers and 6 soldiers of the Polish Army and 14 civilian defenders of Michałkowice and the "Michał" mine were killed in this fight.
According to the casualty lists, a total of 49 men of the German Freikorps died in the fighting around the mine and another 16 when they escaped from the encirclement. The place of death was always indicated as “Beuthen – Michalkowitz battle zone”, “Maxgrube” or “Beuthen, in the Reich border battle zone of Laurahütter Landstrasse”. Another 60 fighters of the Ebbinghaus organization fell in the fighting around Königshütte, a total of 133 Ebbinghausers were wounded on September 1, 1939.
93 captured Freikorps, including seventeen taken prisoner during the fighting for the "Michał" mine, made it to Sambor, where they were released (liberated by the German army) on September 18, 1939.
Sources: https://www.magnapolonia.org/boj-o-kopa ... nia%201939
https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Pisarski, ... isarski%20
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