I inactive had the last chance to light a niche under a monument dedicated to Polish and russian soldiers who died during bloody battles about the oak, then Altdamm, in March 1945.
The following day, on 3 August, the plaque was dismantled, and at 14.19 a monument began to be demolished, erstwhile standing at the top of a 7-metre-long cochlear, made of stone a soldier figure in the sound of applause came to the ground. This happened immediately after the speeches of the representatives of the IPN, the Municipal Council, the Law and another people who had the initiative to do so against the past and memory of the act of destroying places related to our history. With the past of planet War II.
Short History
On March 20, 1945, oak was yet acquired, whether, as the inscription “liberated” proclaimed, after dense fighting that began on March 14 in the far suburbs of the German Altdamm. russian troops of the 65th Strike Army of the Belarusian Front advanced from the north, capturing individual villages and villages lying on the east side of Lake Dąbie.
The fire of the German positions and of the grenadier division of the Waffen SS, in which the Danes, the Flamands and another nations of the present Benelux, served, continued day and night, indicating extraordinary fierceness. In the final phase of the fight, there were hand fights. all street, all building.
The Memory of the Combatants and Pioneers
As a result, Dąbie was destroyed in 80%. Obtaining Dąbia was an crucial strategical goal in the future left-wing business Szczecin on 26 April 1945, a period later.
After the war they remained close the site where the monument stood, closer to Emilia Gierczak Street, buried by russian soldiers, whose remains were exhumed and transferred to the Central Cemetery in 1959.
In 1962, a monument by Krystine Thirdock and Mieczyslaw Welter a tribute to the devoted soldiers who have fallen here. There are many publications devoted to the conflict and the post-war destiny of Dąbia and its first inhabitants, pioneers – settlers from the central part of Poland. Ex-Kres. From Wielkopolska. all year, on the anniversary of the liberation of Dąbia, now the right-wing territory of Szczecin, there were state ceremonies during which there were speeches, solemn appeals, many residents. Coroners and flowers were folded. It was in the times of the Polish People's Republic.
extinguished niche
After 1989, specified celebrations were no longer there, but on the anniversary of the conflict there were always flowers and I lit a niche. individual else remembered... 1 of the pioneers... The combatants who are no longer with us today.
As a tourist guide, I conducted respective races organized by the Regional Szczecin Branch of PTTK, and then alone. And I started with inflammation of the heroes fighting over oak, which is simply a monument. Then besides in the cemetery at Goleniowska Street. There are Polish soldiers buried during these fights. Then I walked in the field on extended oak meadows, and in the evening on a good beetle to the restaurant “Niko” after a full March day.
In the dark, returning by bus to the left coast, the outline of the passing monument I could not see, but the burning red ruin... No memory in a time of universal historical amnesia. At a time erstwhile soldiers were forgotten – heroes of both armies. At a time erstwhile apparent fact is despised, it became embarrassing, 1 that should be forgotten forever...
And so came the communicative of a place. A fewer days ago, the places that remind us of an event from 78 years ago, thanks to which we live today, work, learn and just live... in Polish Szczecin – Dąbiu. Thank you.
Roman Dłuszyński
