August 5, 1944
August 5, 1944Lotte had been holed up in her office building since the start of the uprising. While the building resembled a fortress and was unlikely to be captured by the insurgents, most of the surrounding areas were in Polish hands and it wasn’t safe to go outside.
“It’s a nuisance those partisans have to put up so much resistance. As if we didn’t have enough on our hands with the approaching Soviets,” Lotte’s superior, Oberst Braun, muttered beneath his breath.
She heard him and some of the other high-ranking officers discuss the contingency plan, which consisted of waiting for reinforcement troops to arrive, while defending the strategic buildings. After digesting the shock over the early successes of the resistance fighters, they seemed convinced that the Poles wou
