Partisan Fight ETO (id:#62822)

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Przebraze, Galacia 1943-07-06 (10 others)

Overview:

During 1942, the Soviet High Command ordered partisan units to target people collaborating with Germans and other groups opposed to the Soviet Union. Other partisan organizations began to follow this lead and in 1943, many partisans spent more time fighting each other than the Germans. This was especially true in the disputed borderlands. In the areas of southeastern Poland and northwestern Ukraine, the UPA undertook ethnic cleansing of Poles from the areas annexed in 1939. In the town of Przebraze, Poles began to organize defenses, collecting weapons left from the 1941 battles and getting a permit from the Germans to raise a militia. The Poles even started manufacturing and repairing weapons by setting up a gunsmith factory. Over 28,000 Poles came to town for protection in the spring. Using barbed wire and entrenchments, the Poles built a perimeter area of 6 km by 7 km around the town. On the night of 5/6 July, the UPA attacked all villages outside the perimeter and made some attacks on the fortifications. The morning of 6 July saw the UPA make a determined attempt to break into the perimeter with simultaneous attacks at multiple points on the perimeter.

Defender: Partisan (Przebraze Bataliony Chlopskie)  

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