Defense of Pociecha
defensive battles during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944
Defense of Pociecha refers to defensive battles fought by soldiers of the Kampinos Group of the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in the area of the hamlet Pociecha, located on the southeastern edge of the Kampinos Forest.
Pociecha was one of the most critical defensive positions of the Kampinos Group, as it prevented the Germans from using convenient forest trails and blocked access to the interior of the forest. Between late August and early September 1944, Home Army soldiers engaged in a six-day positional battle in this region, successfully repelling numerous attacks by the collaborationist Russian People's Liberation Army. In mid-September, the Germans made another attempt to capture Pociecha, but Polish soldiers once again repelled all assaults. The hamlet fell into German hands only in the final days of September.
According to Marian Podgóreczny, the battles fought in defense of Pociecha were the longest partisan engagement on Polish soil during the German occupation.
'Independent Republic of Kampinos'
Following the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, armed operations extended to the Kampinos Forest, where units of the VIII District Łęgi of the Warsaw County Subdistrict of the Warsaw District of the Home Army joined the fight. On the eve of the uprising, the VIII District could field two infantry battalions comprising five front-line companies, though only between 350 and 400 soldiers were armed. Fortunately for the Polish side, the balance of forces in the Kampinos Forest shifted dramatically in late July 1944 when the Stowbtsy-Naliboki Group, arriving from the Naliboki forest in Kresy, encamped in Dziekanów Polski. This group numbered 861 well-armed soldiers and was led by Lieutenant Adolf Pilch, codenamed Góra or Dolina – a Silent Unseen and seasoned partisan who had been fighting the Germans and Soviet partisans since autumn 1943.
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