{"id":20846,"date":"2023-02-24T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=20846"},"modified":"2023-02-24T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:01:24","slug":"august-1914-liberation-of-kielce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=20846","title":{"rendered":"August 1914 liberation of Kielce"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20849\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liberation-of-kielce.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1102\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liberation-of-kielce.webp 1102w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liberation-of-kielce-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liberation-of-kielce-150x107.webp 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liberation-of-kielce-768x550.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1102px) 100vw, 1102px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the morning of August 6, 1914, the very day Austria declared war on Russia, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">144 badly<\/span> equipped soldiers of the &#8222;First Cadre Company&#8220; crossed the border from Galicia to Congress Poland. During the next weeks, they were joined by <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2,000 Galician<\/span> riflemen. In addition, they expected the predominantly Polish population to hail them as liberators from the &#8222;Russian yoke&#8220; and to fill their ranks on their fifty miles&#8216; march on the regional capital Kielce. But the inhabitants of the towns and villages which the Polish soldiers passed through were hesitant, adopting a &#8222;wait and see&#8220; attitude. Who knew when the Russian troops, which had hastily evacuated the area, would return with reinforcements? One legionnaire noted, disillusioned: \u201cThis wasn&#8217;t Cracow, this wasn&#8217;t Polish Galicia, this was Russia, and it was populated by a tribe that spoke Polish but felt Russian\u2026[,] look[ing] with complete indifference at these madmen, who had not been asked to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Jochen B\u00f6hler, <em>Civil War in Central Europe, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">1918-1921<\/span><\/em>, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2018), 39-40<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of August 6, 1914, the very day Austria declared war on Russia, 144 badly equipped soldiers of the &#8222;First Cadre Company&#8220; crossed the border from Galicia to Congress Poland. During the next weeks, they were joined by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=20846\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}