Open AccessRaport „Alego” z akcji na Kutscherę, czyli czego nie powiedział dowódca batalionu „Parasol”
Author(s) -
Waldemar Stopczyński
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
przegląd historyczno-wojskowy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1640-6281
DOI - 10.32089/wbh.phw.2019.2(268).0003
Subject(s) - narrative , platoon , cover (algebra) , history , political science , art history , management , art , engineering , literature , mechanical engineering , control (management) , economics
The elimination of Franz Kutschera by the soldiers of the 1st platoon of the „Pegasus” company (later the „Parasol” battalion) is one of the most famous military actions of the Polish underground. Until the 1990s, the post-war narrative about the events of February 1, 1944 was based on the accounts of those participants of the operation who survived the war and on a brief report sent by the commander of „Pegasus” to Colonel „Nil”, and it was consolidated by P. Stachiewicz’s book „Parasol”. The documents published in 1993 and 2016 – the report of the deputy commander of the „Kutschera” operation and the cover letter of the commander of „Pegasus” attached to it – questioned this narrative. The article traced the development of the story about the operation against the „executioner of Warsaw”, indicating that the commander accepted this version which contained the most discrep