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Operation "Lawina" In September 1946 in Operation Lawina, organized by a secret police mole in Flame's unit, the UB convinced him and many of his men that they could be transported to the American zone in Germany. In actuality while waiting to be transported out of Poland, around 200 of his soldiers were first drugged, then stripped and taken into the forests and murdered. "Bartek" himself escaped from the transport when he realized that something was not right. The exact place of the execution site is unknown but the forests near Łambinowice, Hubertus or the village of Barut have been proposed. After this incident the initiative passed to the secret police and Flame found himself hunted and more and more of his men were caught and killed. Individuals implicated in the annihilation of the Flames'-lead NSZ units were: Henryk Wendrowski (UB agent who penetrated its ranks), Roman Romkowski (Natan Grinszpan-Kikiel) who along with Marek Fink (Mark Finkienberg) devised and supervised the conduct of the Operation "Lawina". In 1970, Fink began to use the name Witold Jozwicki. Jan Fryderyk Zielinski, Polish Secret Police functionary stated that the murdered NSZ soldiers were buried in two pits, and further elaborated that "Neither [himself],…Citește mai mult

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Henryk Antoni Flame (or Flamme, nom de guerre "Grot" or "Bartek"; January 19, 1918 – December 1, 1947) was a corporal and pilot in the Polish Air Force, and a captain of the anti-Nazi, and anti-Communist resistance organization NSZ.

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Henryk was the son of Emeryk and Maria (née Raszyk). In 1919 the Flame family moved from Frysztat in Trans-Olza to Czechowice-Dziedzice. He finished the local gimnazjum and the Technical School in Bielsko. In 1936 he volunteered for the army and began studying at the School for Cadets of the Airforce in Bydgoszcz, which he completed in 1939 with the rank of corporal-pilot. He was allotted to the 123rd Fighter Squadron which was stationed in Kraków.

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During World War II During the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, as a pilot of the squadron he fought the Luftwaffe at the Siege of Warsaw (1939). On September 1, 1939, the first air battle of World War II took place, during which the plane piloted by Flame was shot down. From then on he was under the direct command of the President of Warsaw, Stefan Starzyński. On the 7th of September the 123rd Squadron was withdrawn from Warsaw to Lublin. On the 17th of the same months most of the soldiers of the squadron crossed the Romanian border in order to avoid capture by the Nazis. However, Flame remained and most likely became part of the newly formed Reconnaissance Squadron operating on the Lwów – Zaleszczyki line. Sometime after the 17th of September his plane was shot down by the Soviets who had invaded Poland in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. He organized from various groups of retreating soldiers a convoy, which at the end of September crossed into Hungary. In Hungary together with other Polish soldiers he was interned and placed in a temporary holding camp from which he soon escaped. However, while hiding with a…Citește mai mult

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On February 12, 1945, the Red Army entered Czechowice. Flame, acting on the orders of NSZ command, revealed himself to Soviet authorities and together with his men presented himself at their disposal. However, at the same time, the group retained its conspiratorial structure (the ostensible purpose was to infiltrate the Communist authorities and bureaucracy with NSZ men). Despite objections from local communist activist, Flame was made the commandant of the Czechowice milicja (MO). Realizing the orders of NSZ command he put his own men in charge of the police force and hired other anti-communists into the militia. At the same time he began stockpiling weapons knowing that sooner or later a confrontation with the real communists was inevitable. In April 1945 he was once again threatened with arrest, this time by the communists. As before he escaped to the forests, assumed the nom-de-guerre "Bartek" and created a partisan unit - the NSZ Group of the 7th Region of Silesia and Cieszyn. From May 1945 until February 1947 Flame "Bartek", led the largest anti-communist partisan group in the Trans-Olza region. At its height his unit numbered 300 men, all of whom had military uniforms and were well armed thanks to Flame's…Citește mai mult

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On December 1, 1947, in Zabrzeg Henryk Flame was assassinated by the local communist policeman Rudolf Dadak, in a plot organized by Henryk Wendrowski (who was also responsible for "Action Lawina" in which Bartek's men were killed). Flame was shot while dining in a restaurant. Neither Dadak nor anyone else involved was ever charged with his murder.