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A three-minute story from this date in the Second World War, narrated, with the sources to check it. Then the battle it belongs to, drawn on the map phase by phase.
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THU 05 OCT 1939War day 35Eastern Front
Kleeberg’s force had reached the campaign’s last battle with local successes behind it. By 5 October, ammunition had become the more pressing fact.
On 5 October 1939, near Kock, General Franciszek Kleeberg decided to surrender the Independent Operational Group Polesie. The decision came late in the afternoon, after four days of fighting against German forces. Polesie had been the last organized regular unit of the Polish Army still in the field. Its capitulation closed the September Campaign’s final major battle, though the fighting did not stop at the moment Kleeberg made his decision.
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