Czas Honoru (3-6)

I already wrote about Seasons 1 and 2 of Czas Honoru (Time of Honor.) So now I'll write about Seasons 3, 4, 5, and 6. Seasons 3 and 4 continue to deal with the German occupation of Warsaw. It jumps a few years (from 1941 to 1944) and so they skip certain key events like the Grossaktion Warschau (in which the Germans deported around 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the gas chambers at Treblinka in 1942) and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. Those are very important events when talking about the city of Warsaw. Those seasons did deal with the everyday horrors of life in Warsaw under the Germans as well as briefly deals with the Poles fighting with the rest of the Allies in Italy.

Seasons 5 and 6 deal with the end of World War 2 in 1945 and the beginning of the Soviet and Communist occupation of Warsaw in 1945-1946. The main characters have been displaced throughout Europe and make their way back to Warsaw. There was a different dynamic with these seasons since the Germans were taken out and replaced by Soviet and Polish Communists. The Germans considered all Poles to be "sub-human Slavs" while the Communists (Slavs themselves) were against any non-Communist and anyone who had fought for Poland's freedom - even if only against the Germans. The UK and France abandoned Poland in 1939 when western Poland was invaded by the Germans and eastern Poland by the Soviets and the UK, France and the US abandoned Poland in 1945 by giving the Soviet Union free-reign (that lasted until the 1990s.)

Seasons 1-6 were very action-packed with storylines that inter-twined, but were still easy to follow and gave a realistic interpretation of what the Polish people (in Warsaw and around Poland) had to go through under both the Germans and the Soviets.