Operation Bürkl
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| Operation Bürkl | |||||||
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| Part of World War II | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kedyw of the AK |
 Nazi Germany |
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| Commanders | |||||||
| Jerzy Zborowski | Franz Bürkl † | ||||||
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| 5 | ? | ||||||
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| None | 8 killed | ||||||
| This article is part of the series: Polish Secret State  History of Poland |
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Operation Bürkl (Operacja Bürkl) was the operation by the Polish resistance to kill Franz Bürkl, a notorius Sicherheitspolizei officer sentenced to death by the Special Courts.
On September 7, 1943, along with seven other SS-men, Bürkl was gunned down on Marszałkowska Street of Warsaw by a group of five young Armia Krajowa fighters from the anti-Gestapo unit Agat recruited for Kedyw from Szare Szeregi and led by the 21 year-old Jerzy Zborowski ("Jeremi"). Sten submachine guns were used in the action.
In a reprisal action 20 Pawiak inmates were murdered in a public execution by the Nazis.
[edit] External links
- (Polish) Specjalna operacja bojowa Bürkl
