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To: the scotsman
Lt Rogers was then taken prisoner by the Russians and sent to a gulag in Siberia. Best friend Gordon Scott-Whale, 85, of Fairford, Gloucestershire, recalled: 'In Krakow Tony told me he and his comrades hid inside graves at a cemetery.

'Can you imagine firing at Russian tanks from inside a grave? One of his friends was killed but Tony escaped and managed to make it back to his village.'

Krakow was taken by the Germans early in the war and the Russians didn't get there until 1945. He must have been shooting at German tanks or else fighting the Russians at another location.

4 posted on 02/02/2013 5:06:00 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: Fiji Hill

There was so much back and forth in those days, it’s hard to establish time lines and TRUTH.

A relative of mine claims that the Ruskies were indeed running rampant through Krakaow in the early ‘40s.

Don’t know, wasn’t there, were they drunk? Was it real?

WWII has SO MANY SECRETS that will NEVER be known.

I believe my UNCLE, he’s my blood. Could he be wrong? Yes.

One will NEVER know.

But when I read what your read, then I thought: “Krakow was taken by the Germans early in the war and the Russians didn’t get there until 1945. He must have been shooting at German tanks or else fighting the Russians at another location.”

We will never know. Young people fought a hard war. I’ll leave it at that.


7 posted on 02/02/2013 5:19:19 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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