A NATION HAS A LONG MEMORY

And Equally Long Arms

A death sentence announcement issued by the Directorate of Civil Resistance

As early as September 1939 Polish Armed Forced (Home Army, Peasants Battalions, People's Army, and more) and Civilian Administration (Directorate of Civil Resistance) in German-occupied territories began to form their underground structures. Starting as ad-hoc scattered groups operating in secrecy practiced over past centuries these would in time consolidate and form the largest Underground State and Armed Forces in Europe [we will talk about this in more detail in upcoming posts]. Among the numerous organs of a functioning underground state were civilian courts, military courts and their long arms of punishing law. Throughout history there existed traitors who collaborated with the enemy, they exist today and will exist in the future. While Poland was the only occupied country that did not collaborate with Germans (Vichy, Quisling and their iterations across Europe) there were individual flunkeys among the population who served or worked with the mortal enemy. Underground civilian prosecutors and military intelligence actively tracked them down. They were investigated, sentenced and punished according to the laws of the time of war. Special units of executioners carried out sentences that were publicised in underground press as warning, sending shockwaves across the country, providing proof that the Polish underground authorities exist and are working.

From the Underground Criminal Code:

"Whoever commits the crime of treason, espionage, provocation, denunciation or inhuman persecution and harm to the Polish population - shall be subject to the death penalty."

Let there be no mistake. A Nation has a long memory. And equally long arms that will reach its traitors anywhere.

Read about it in: WITHOUT PITY