In 1968 I was a 16 year old junior technician working at the Kings Buildings Edinburgh University. An old gentleman called Stan worked there as a handyman/ painter etc. One day I said to Stan “ Old Stan what did you do in the war? “ “ Well my son ( he always addressed me ,my son) I was a General in the British Army, I thought he was kidding me, he was a lovely fatherly gentleman, Humble and kind. I always enjoyed talking to him. I should finish by saying he was General Stanislaw Maczek.
@miketabecki7244 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this film. My father served in1PAD throughout WW2 and I remember , as a child, our family visiting The General when he was at the hotel in Scotland. Unfortunately for me we had to wait in the car while father & mother visited him inside! I do remember Dad saying that all visiting Polish soldiers would salute their General - precisely as you show in the opening shot of the documentary. At the time of our visit the hotel was owned by one of the General's 1PAD soldiers.
@paulzukowski66434 жыл бұрын
Thank you from the bottom of my heart ! Greetings from Brooklyn! Wspanialy material , bardzo dziekuje i serdecznie pozdrawiam.
@danieldzwonczyk58704 жыл бұрын
Sława for General Maczek because of him and his soldiers I am proud to be Polish thank you General.
@ricban19502 жыл бұрын
I met the General around 1958/1959 when my father took me to Edinburgh to meet him. He was my father's commanding General of the 1st Polish Armoured Division during WW2.
@forestsun15423 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this wonderful documentary.🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
@jozefk89484 жыл бұрын
Great story
@foxvideo22334 жыл бұрын
Dzieki Friend!
@leondeckers32984 жыл бұрын
Very very very impressive. Will there be a version with Dutch subtitles in the near future? We would really like this movie to spread much further. Greetings from Breda.
@rafageremek81424 жыл бұрын
Yes, there is a Dutch version. I hope the Producer will release it quite soon. Greetings from Warsaw, Rafał Geremek, author
@ingehorrevorst4295 Жыл бұрын
@@rafageremek8142 the version with Dutch subtitles has been shown already a few times in the region around Breda, but unfortunately the subtitles are missing in the last part of the movie. We will be showing the movie again later this year (in November) and it would be great to have a version fully subtitled in Dutch, so that both Polish speaking and Dutch speaking attendeed can watch and understand the full movie. Is there a way this can be fixed? We would be very grateful! On behalf of the liberation committee of Beerse (liberated in '44 by both polish and english soldiers)
@foxvideo22334 жыл бұрын
dzieki
@foxvideo22334 жыл бұрын
Tak dzieki
@2serveand2protect3 жыл бұрын
Interesting documentary. I might add that the bond between the fighting men of the Canadian Forces and the Poles created at Falaise did not die with the end of the War. Those Poles couldn't see their homes again because of the communist "ally". Those who went back were persecuted, arrested - often killed by the stalinist regime. Some stayed in Scotland but plenty of the men from that division went to Canada - more or less "invited" by their Canadian "counterparts". The overwhelming majority of them would never see Polish soil again.
@lamberha Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@BikepackingJourney4 жыл бұрын
Great general.
@imunderarrestfortaxinvasio354 жыл бұрын
He was good
@BikepackingJourney3 жыл бұрын
@@ewasonten6365 oby bylo jak najmniej wojen i cierpienia. Zapraszam na moj kanal :) Tematyka czysto podroznicza
@michal21354 жыл бұрын
smutne jest to ze w szkole nie uczy sie tego !
@supreme33764 жыл бұрын
Wolą o LGBT
@foxvideo22334 жыл бұрын
Great Boy
@ziomfernando9 ай бұрын
Piękna historia! Dziękujemy generale!!
@SebastianBIELEC-r4i5 ай бұрын
Świetny dokument
@Skiskiski4 жыл бұрын
The Poles fought so hard on Hill 262 because they believed that any surrender to Waffen SS was suicide! They rather die fighting than to be executed. Albeit, looking on a hindsight, it is uncertain and even unlikely that they would have ended up executed, but they did believe themselves that they had no choice.
@imunderarrestfortaxinvasio354 жыл бұрын
Oh
@Skiskiski4 жыл бұрын
@@imunderarrestfortaxinvasio35 ❤
@philipnestor5034 Жыл бұрын
My father Joseph Marian Nestor was 20 years old and fought against the Germans in Warsaw in 1939. He was captured and escaped and made it to France.He joined with the Polish army in Northern France and fought again against the invading Germans in 1940. After escaping from the Germans a second time he eventually made it to England and then was in the First Armored Division stationed in Scotland.. He ended up in a Sherman tank. He always hated the Germans but loved Scotland and the Scottish people.
@gemini14144 ай бұрын
Thank you General Maczek, im crying!!!
@Rugia-ox7hx2 жыл бұрын
Ironically, Poles who lost everything fought to free others --- those others who did nothing to help Poland in her hour of need, whether in 1939 or in 1945.
@MuadPL4 жыл бұрын
The film is great but many parts are not translated - subtitles are missing, sometimes in the middle of a sentence...
@srogi00pohg2 жыл бұрын
Wieczna cześć i chwała Bohaterom. Gen. Maczek przekot
@adrianelpol888 ай бұрын
Czołem panie Generale ❤
@Skiskiski4 жыл бұрын
When their captured the train, they captured four artillery pieces or cannons and not four divisions.
@bogumibogumi6778 Жыл бұрын
Wielki Bohater wielu narodów.
@MrStanislav Жыл бұрын
44:21 Mieli fantazję, chłopaki :)
@pauldockree99152 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Stanislaw Maczek.
@RobRoy197810 ай бұрын
Tak, Polak nie może żyć bez polski. Tyle razy próbowali nam ja zabrać, nie możemy dopuścić do tego by się to powturzylo.
@manicurejoanna3 ай бұрын
When they retreated to Hungary. Hungary took their weapons and sold them to Finnland. Finnland was fighting against soviets atm or preparing to defend their country agaisnt soviet invaders. My grandfather fought with Gen Maczek against germans and ended up in Hungary with 10 Brygada Kawalerii Pancernej. Jakub Młodziński. Grandad said germans destroyed them and he lost many many commrades, but at least made their lives harder.
@jezajez90523 жыл бұрын
...w wojsku nalezy byc nieprzewidywalnym i to jest gwarancja sukcesu...!!!
@mareksicinski37262 жыл бұрын
Some questionable translations
@ziolo312 жыл бұрын
What a shame that General Maczek has been deprived of Polish Citizenship as the communist's did those sort of things.