История Второй мировой Войны

3. Reports on Mikiciński,
The US Holocaust
Memorial Museum,
Washington, DC

4. Mikiciński’s personal file
at the Pilsudski Institute
Archives, Brooklyn, USA

5. Mikiciński’s personal file
at the British National
Archives

6. Ambassador Michał Sokolnicki
2.9.39
Franz von Papen – A former
German Chancellor and
Nazi ambassador to Turkey.
Among the leading secret
negotiators with the Poles.

7. ‘Polish Bloodbath’
The Germans Suffered
Heavy Losses – Up to
50.000 men in a month
Have You Known? The French
Army Invaded Germany in 1939 To
Support The Polish
9-16.9.39
11.9 – von Papen’s 2nd
Appeal to the Turks to
Mediate Between Berlin
and London

8. Hitler Makes His Peace
Speech in the Reichstag,
6 October 1939
Vis-à-vis Britain: Sending Secret Envoys until September
1940: Proposals to Hold a "Peace Conference" at
Which Poland's Destiny Will Be Decided.
In Poland: Search for local political forces with whom it
would be possible to establish a puppet government in
Warsaw (until 1941).
Vis-à-vis the Polish Government in Exile: A series of
proposals to cooperate against the Soviet threat; Secret
negotiations with representatives of the Polish Interior
Minister in Bucharest and Istanbul (until 1941).

10. Wanted the Poles
to Assist Britain in
Fighting Against
Germany and to Supply
Him With the Formal
Reason for Continuing
This Fighting
Didn’t Want the Poles
to Interfere With His
Plans and Actions Aimed
at Defending the British
Empire
Thucydides: “The strong do what they can and
the weak suffer what they must".

11. Ramon Briones Luco

12. Polenaktion
Zbąszyń Affair
October 1938, more than 17.000 displaced Polish Jews
Mikiciński bribed
Interior Ministry
officials in Warsaw
and renewed the
passports of some
of the camp
detainees,
allowing their
release and
continued travel
to Latin America.

13. Warsaw after German
bombardments,
September 1939
General Władysław Sikorski becomes
the exiled leader of Poland, with the
help of the French and with the
consent of the British
Mikiciński leaves
Warsaw in a private car,
in the company of two
young women, and
heads for France
Irena Szarska-Potocka,
the Mode Queen of Poland
before WWII, left Warsaw
with Mikiciński

14. The Parisian hotel "Majestic" where
Samson Mikiciński was regularly
housed in 1939-1940.

15. Entrance to the Paris "Regina"
hotel where the Supreme
Command of the Polish Army in
Exile resided in 1940-1939
The lobby and dining room of the hotel "Regina"

16. This is what occupied Warsaw looked like during Mikiciński's activity there (late 1939 - May 1940)

17. The building in the heart of occupied Warsaw
which served as Mikiciński's operational base
Helena
Sikorska
Stanisław Kot

18. The Polish
Embassy in
Bucharest then
and now, as
Mikiciński saw it
in February
1940
A Polish memorial plaque to the Bulgarian
diplomats who assisted Mikiciński in
maintaining secret relations with occupied
Poland and rescuing the Jews
Dimitar Ikonomov – one of
the Bulgarian diplomats
who worked with Samson
Excerpt from a British intelligence report on Samson's work in the Balkans

19. Paul Hindemith on the balcony
of Park Hotel in Istanbul,
April/May 1935
Ambassador von Papen
apparently met with
Mikiciński in Istanbul

20. Sikorski-Kot Camp
'Sanacija' Supporters Camp
General
Kazimierz
Sosnkowski
Bitter
Infighting
Colonel Leon
Mitkiewicz-Żółłtek
The Head of the
Polish Military
Counterintelligence

21. Taksim Square in Istanbul where Samson's car was found: then and today
The Saro London aircraft on
which, apparently, Samson was
flown to Palestine
Excerpts from
the Polish and British
reports on Samson's
kidnapping

22. Acre Fortress, where Samson Mikiciński
was held in January-July 1941
‫ישראל‬ ‫ארץ‬ ‫ממפת‬ ‫קטע‬
‫משנת‬ ‫הבריטית‬
1942
(
‫החוקר‬ ‫של‬ ‫פרטי‬ ‫אוסף‬
)
Samson‘s
Approximate
Burial Ground
Excerpt from a British intelligence report on Samson
mentioning his incarceration at the Acre Fortress

23. Excerpt from Mikiciński's
investigation report signed by him
and his interrogator Shrakiewicz

24. The eastern Polish village of Boćki, where Samson was born
The claim that Minister Kot shouted in
Jerusalem: '‘They have murdered a
hero! There will be monuments erected
in his memory in postwar Poland! ''

25. St. 57-58 Saint-James Street, London
The renovated building that housed
during WWII the British Security
Service (MI5) headquarters.
Sir David Petrie
The director general of MI5,
who apparently managed
the plot.
General Izydor Modelski
Polish Deputy Minister of the
Military Affairs. According to the
plot’s plan, he was supposed to
take over the Polish security
system for the British.
The main plotters’ idea was to take over the Polish counter-
intelligence apparatus and through it the Polish Army in Exile and in
fact the entire Polish Government in Exile. Sikorski should have
been totally marginalized.

27. 4 Years of
Terrible War
The Early 1941
‘Barbarossa’
The ‘Small
Poland’ Idea is
Abandoned
‘Final
Solution’
German-Polish Peace
Agreement, Establishment of
‘Small Poland’
No ‘Barbarossa’
in 1941
German-British
Peace Agreement
Anti-Soviet Bloc
in Europe
A Clear Alternative
No ‘Final Solution’?