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.
On September 1, 1939, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany and the Soviet Union were allies at the beginning of the war.