Redaktor - The German army pushed the Soviets out of Lithuania in the summer of 1941. When the Nazi propaganda apparatus installed in Wilno a Polish-language newspaper, Goniec Codzienny, writer Józef Mackiewicz contributed three articles for its early editions. Their content was anti-Soviet, but also critical of the Polish government in London, yet public opinion condemned Mackiewicz. With the added rumor that he was on the paper’s editorial board, Mackiewicz — together with Czeslaw Ancerewicz, Goniec‘s editor-in-chief - was tried by the clandestine military court of the Home Army Wilno District and sentenced to death. The verdict on Ancerewicz was carried out in March 1943.
Redaktor - The German army pushed the Soviets out of Lithuania in the summer of 1941. When the Nazi propaganda apparatus installed in Wilno a Polish-language newspaper, Goniec Codzienny, writer Józef Mackiewicz contributed three articles for its early editions. Their content was anti-Soviet, but also critical of the Polish government in London, yet public opinion condemned Mackiewicz. With the added rumor that he was on the paper’s editorial board, Mackiewicz — together with Czeslaw Ancerewicz, Goniec‘s editor-in-chief - was tried by the clandestine military court of the Home Army Wilno District and sentenced to death. The verdict on Ancerewicz was carried out in March 1943.
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