Operacja Łódzka 1914 – Armia cieni

• Authors: Daszynski Andrzej

Title variants

EN

Łódź Operation 1914 – army of shadows

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this article I would like to share with my readers a bit of excitement which accompanied me in my trip through space and time – the trip to the biggest and almost totally forgotten battle of the First World War. The outbreak of the First World War is very well described and as a historical fact does not require at the moment any wider description. However, it may remain unknown that the armies of the occupant states included not only the nationals of the given states but also the natives who lived on those territories. This mechanism caused a mass conscription of Poles who were later sent to the fronts to fight against other armies which often included many other Poles. Historians assess that out of all the soldiers taking part in the Łódź Operation (about seven hundred thousand soldiers of whom two hundred thousand died during three weeks of the Łódź Operation) at least 20% were Poles. This truth is being discovered now due to 170 graveyards and cemetery objects scattered around Łódź where the fights took place.

Keywords

PL

nekropolie Operacji Łódzkiej; cmentarze I wojny światowej; Polacy w czasie I wojny światowej

EN

cemeteries of Łódź Operation; cemeteries of the First World War; Poles during the first world war

• Publisher: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne w Łodzi
• Journal: Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 27-32

Contributors

author

Daszynski Andrzej

• Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UŁ, Łódź

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