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8.12.40 [George Orwell]

December 8, 2010 in Albania, Danzig, POland, Pole, Political, Rumours, War-time, Warsaw, bombs, nonsense poetry by orwelldiaries

Broadcasting the night before last. . . . Met there a Pole who has only recently escaped from Poland by some underground route he would not disclose. . . . He said that in the siege of Warsaw 95 per cent of the houses were damaged and about 25 per cent demolished.  All services, electricity, water, etc., broke down, and towards the end people had no defence whatever against the aeroplanes and, what was worse, the artillery.  He described people rushing out to cut bits off a horse killed by shell-fire, then being driven back by fresh shells, then rushing out again.  When Warsaw was completely cut off the people were upheld by the belief that the English were coming to help them, rumours all the while of an English army in Danzig, etc. etc. . .

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