Joe Kubryk - The Germans try to get rid of the partisans in the forest
Transcript: The German army normally was very skeptical and frightened to come into the forest to fight us for many reasons. One of the reasons was for instance, if we let them in to come into the forest, our soldiers, our guys were sitting on top of trees, among the branches with machine guns and grenades, and dispose of them right there so they couldn't do nothing. Then, they decided to come, get rid of all the partisans by bombarding the forest. I do not know if you are familiar with military situations, but when you bomb a forest and the bomb comes off the plane, soon as she hits the branches of the wood of the trees, the branches were sheared off from the explosion, the bomb explodes in piece -- small pieces. We are sitting in the zemlyanka which is ten feet, or eight feet, or six feet deep underground, covered, protected so nothing will happen. So again they couldn't accomplish nothing.