Tuchola Forest myth

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Tuchel Heath is the reported scene of the Polish cavalry attack in which a mounted unit of the Polish forces rode its horses against German panzers in Invasion of Poland 1939.

In an incident that has been alluded to ad nauseam for the past 67 years, referring to the incident during the Battle of Krojanty when a Polish cavalry unit entered German infantry positions and inadvertently found itself confronting German armor. When the Germans subsequently showed the aftermath to Italian journalists, the myth was born. Those who wish to ridicule Poles and things Polish, especially in Germany and the United States, have ever since exploited it. It definitely was not Polish military doctrine to send cavalry against tanks.