Cursed soldiers
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The "cursed soldiers" or "indomitable soldiers" were a heterogeneous array of anti-Soviet and anti-communist resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and in its aftermath by mem
"Cursed soldiers" of Polish anti-communist underground, June 1947. From left: Henryk Wybranowski - pseudonym "Tarzan" (killed Nov. 1948) Edward Taraszkiewicz - "Żelazny" (killed Oct. 1951) Mieczysław Małecki - "Sokół" (killed Nov. 1947) Stanisław Pakuła - "Krzewina"
Monument to the Armia Krajowa in Sopot, Poland
"The Giant and the Reactionary Spittle-Covered Dwarf". A postwar Polish communist propaganda poster showing a soldier of the Polish People's Army striding over a partisan of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).
Witold Pilecki ("Witold")
Japanese holdout
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Japanese holdouts were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II who continued fighting after the surrender of Japan at the end of the wa
Cursed soldiers
…Forest Brothers Japanese holdout Jerzy Ślaski, Żołnierze wyklęci, Warszawa, Oficyna Wydawnicza Rytm, 1996…
Japanese holdout soldiers still occupying the city of Bukittinggi, after the surrender of Japan and the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence
Second Lieutenant Sakae Ōba, a Japanese holdout, photo from 1937.
Shouichi yokoi
Hiroo Onoda young