--- title: 'Biuletyn Informacyjny No. 42 (197), 21 October 1943: ''Zapowiedź'' and ''Samoobrona i odwet''' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/biuletyn-informacyjny-samoobrona-i-odwet-warsaw-1943/ description: 'Front page of the clandestine Warsaw weekly of the Polish Home Army: an announcement and a numbered communique over the printed name of the Directorate…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Underground newspaper page announcing retaliatory killings and calling opponents 'bestial executioners'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Biuletyn Informacyjny No. 42 (197), 21 October 1943: 'Zapowiedź' and 'Samoobrona i odwet'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/biuletyn-informacyjny-samoobrona-i-odwet-warsaw-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/biuletyn-informacyjny-samoobrona-i-odwet-warsaw-1943.jpg) # Biuletyn Informacyjny No. 42 (197), 21 October 1943: 'Zapowiedź' and 'Samoobrona i odwet' Front page of the clandestine Warsaw weekly of the Polish Home Army: an announcement and a numbered communique over the printed name of the Directorate of Underground Struggle, then a lead article, 'Self-defence and retaliation'. The tell: opponents are labelled 'bestial German executioners', 'a bestial sadist' and 'informer-scum', and the whole is framed as counter-terror, in the same register the German notice of 1944 (sipo-bekanntmachung-100-hostages-warsaw-1944) uses for its opponents. ## Text on the object Original (Polish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` BŁOGOSŁAWIENI, KTÓRZY W CZASIE GROMÓW NIE UTRACILI RÓWNOWAGI DUCHA. Kasprowicz. BIULETYN informacyjny Rok V Warszawa, 21 października 1943 r. Nr 42 (197) Zapowiedź W ostatnich dniach Gestapo rozpoczęło nową falę terroru w formie masowych łapanek niewinnych ludzi oraz brania i rozstrzeliwania zakładników, jak to miało miejsce w Warszawie w dniach 13 i 14.X. 1943 r. Polacy nie dadzą się zastraszyć taką bezmyślną a okrutną akcją. W odwet za tego rodzaju akty terroru — zostaną wykonane dodatkowe uderzenia dywersyjne i represyjne. KIEROWNICTWO WALKI PODZIEMNEJ Warszawa, 15.X.1943 r. Komunikat Nr. 18 Dnia 2.X.1943 r. w godzinach rannych w Warszawie obok gmachu Gestapo przy Al. Szucha został zastrzelony kierownik wydziału walki z sabotażem i dywersją, kapitan Gestapo Lechner. KIEROWNICTWO WALKI PODZIEMNEJ Warszawa, 16.X.1943 r. SAMOOBRONA I ODWET Od 1 września 1939 r. trwają bez- przerwy działania wojenne polsko-nie- mieckie. Na morzach, w powietrzu i na ziemi. Za granicami i w Kraju. Walka w Kraju toczy się w ramach ogólnoalianckich planów wojennych, a obecny jej okres — jest okresem walki ograniczonej. Nie czas jeszcze na po- wstanie, nie czas na masowe działania partyzanckie. Okres walk obecnych jest okresem samoobrony i prze- ciwterroru. Dla celów samoobrony i przeciwter- roru Siły Zbrojne w Kraju: 1. tępią be- stjalskich niemieckich oprawców oraz organizatorów terroru okupanckiego; 2. niszczą zdrajców i szpiegów; 3. sto- sują akty odwetu za masowe zbrodnie niemieckie; 4: wyzwalają więźniów po- litycznych; 5. walczą z kolonizacją nie- miecką; 6. przeprowadzają specjalnie nakazane zadania wojskowe. Skuteczność tych akcji samoobrony i przeciwterroru jest oczywista: zgładze- nie bestjalskiego sadysty lub jakiejś szpiclowskiej kanalji — chroni setki polskich rodzin; akcje przeciwkoloniza- cyjne powstrzymały masowe wysiedla- nia; przeciwterror w licznych wypad- kach spowodował mniej zwierzęcy sto- sunek okupanta do gnębionej ludności. Walka obecna, ograniczona do samoob- ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO IN TIME OF THUNDER DID NOT LOSE THEIR EQUANIMITY OF SPIRIT. Kasprowicz. BULLETIN informacyjny [Information Bulletin] Year V Warsaw, 21 October 1943 No. 42 (197) Announcement In recent days the Gestapo has begun a new wave of terror in the form of mass round-ups of innocent people and the taking and shooting of hostages, as happened in Warsaw on 13 and 14 Oct. 1943. The Poles will not let themselves be intimidated by such a thoughtless and cruel action. In reprisal for acts of terror of this kind, additional sabotage and repressive strikes will be carried out. DIRECTORATE OF UNDERGROUND STRUGGLE Warsaw, 15 Oct. 1943 Communique No. 18 On 2 Oct. 1943, in the morning hours, in Warsaw next to the Gestapo building in Aleje Szucha, the head of the department for combating sabotage and diversion, Gestapo captain Lechner, was shot dead. DIRECTORATE OF UNDERGROUND STRUGGLE Warsaw, 16 Oct. 1943 SELF-DEFENCE AND RETALIATION Since 1 September 1939 Polish-German military operations have continued without interruption. At sea, in the air and on land. Abroad and in the Country. The struggle in the Country is waged within the framework of general Allied war plans, and its present phase is a phase of limited struggle. It is not yet the time for an uprising, not the time for mass partisan operations. The present period of fighting is a period of self-defence and counter-terror. For the purposes of self-defence and counter-terror the Armed Forces in the Country: 1. exterminate the bestial German executioners and organisers of the occupier's terror; 2. destroy traitors and spies; 3. apply acts of retaliation for mass German crimes; 4: free political prisoners; 5. fight German colonisation; 6. carry out specially ordered military tasks. The effectiveness of these actions of self-defence and counter-terror is obvious: the elimination of a bestial sadist or some informer-scum saves hundreds of Polish families; the anti-colonisation actions have halted mass expulsions; counter-terror has in numerous cases produced a less bestial attitude of the occupier toward the oppressed population. The present struggle, limited to self-defen[ce]... ``` Letter-spaced headings (Zapowiedź, Komunikat, Kraju) are given as ordinary words. The line-end hyphenation of the print is kept. The scan ends mid-sentence at the foot of the column ('samoob-'); the page continues beyond the scan. 'Rok V' is partly obscured by a fold. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; 'szpiclowska kanalja' is rendered 'informer-scum'. 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