However, the last known 'cursed soldier', Józef Franczak, was killed in an ambush as late as 1963, almost 20 years after the Soviet take-over of Poland.
The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and took over the city within days.
His father Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł was deported to a Gulag during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945.
He was deported to a Gulag during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945.
The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa and a week later, on June 30, 1941 overran the city of Lwów.
The German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on 22 June 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa.
The corresponding terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed earlier in Moscow were broken, when the German army entered the Soviet occupation zone on June 22, 1941.
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