Jan Kryst
- Birth Date:
- 06.04.1922
- Death date:
- 22.05.1943
- Extra names:
- Categories:
- Military person, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warsaw, Wola Cemetery
21-year-old Jan Kryst walked into the "Adria" restaurant, a "nur für Deutsche" place in occupied Warsaw, with a loaded gun.
He had advanced TB but decided to go on his own terms. He got three Germans, wounding at least one more, before others beat him to death.
Source: wikipedia.org
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01.09.1939 | Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.