Efforts of crossing the German blockade of Polish coast by sea 1 Sept. – 2 Oct. 1939

Piotr Sykut

doi:10.21697/sc.2016.23.22en

Publié le:

Vol. 23 (2016)

Efforts of crossing the German blockade of Polish coast by sea 1 Sept. – 2 Oct. 1939

Piotr Sykut

Saeculum Christianum

Rubrique: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.22en

Résumé

The article presents the attempts of Polish coast defenders' to get through to neutral countries by sea during military operations in September and October 1939. These efforts were made in spite of the German blockade of Polish coast by Kriegsmarine ships and Luftwaffe planes. This subject hasn't been widely featured yet using the reports of coast defenders kept in Polish and foreign archives. The goal of this article is the systematisation of knowledge about these facts, presentation of characters of sailors, soldiers and civilians, who didn't want to go into captivity. Some of them were going to continue their struggle in Polish Armed Forces in the West.

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Sykut, P. (2021). Efforts of crossing the German blockade of Polish coast by sea 1 Sept. – 2 Oct. 1939. Saeculum Christianum, 23(1), 284–301. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.22en

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Piotr Sykut

Affiliation:

Warszawa Pologne

Note biographique

Piotr Sykut (born in 1973 in Warszawa), a military historian, graduate from the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, he explores the latest universal history, the history of the military, including the Polish Navy from 1918-1945, and the defence of the Coast in 1939. He is an employee of the Municipal Office of the Capital City of Warsaw.