Time Of Honor

Time Of Honor

“Time Of Honor” (Polish: “Czas Honoru”) is a Polish Television Series about World War 2 from TVP2 that aired from 2008-2014.

Set in German-Occupied Poland from 1939-1944 (Seasons 1, 2,3, 4 and 7) and in Post-War Poland 1945-1946 (Seasons 5 and 6), the series tells a story of Union of Armed Struggle/Armia Krajowa/Armed Forces Delegation for Poland Soldiers commonly referred to as “Cichociemni” (The Silent Unseen.)

The Cichociemni were Elite Operations Paratroopers of the Polish Government-In-Exile (in London) that trained in the UK and sent into German-Occupied Poland.

A total of 2,613 Polish Army Soldiers volunteered for training by Polish and British SOE Operatives, but only 606 People completed the training, and eventually 316 of them were secretly Parachuted into Occupied-Poland.

Of the 316 Cichociemni, 103 died during the War: in combat with the Germans, executed by the Gestapo, or in crashes. A further 9 were executed after the War by the Polish People's Republic; the Soviet and Polish Communist Regime was hostile to the Cichociemni and considered them to be British Ideologized Infiltrators.

Time of Honor stars Polish Actors and Actresses: Jan Wieczorkowski, Antoni Pawlicki, Maciej Zakościelny, Jakub Wesołowski, Krystian Wieczorek , Piotr Adamczyk, Jan Englert, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Agnieszka Więdłocha, Piotr Żurawski, Krzysztof Globisz, Anna Romantowska and Ewa Wencel.

Time Of Honor depicts many real-life Events and Programs that occurred during and right after World War 2:

The Palmiry Massacre where from 1939-1941 the Germans murdered 1,700 Polish and Jewish Political, Cultural and Intellectual Elite.

The “Action NW” created by the German Abwehr and the Gestapo to Infiltrate the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government-In-Exile in London.

The “Hotel Polski Affair” the German Program that enticed Polish Jews hiding in the Non-Jewish Part of Warsaw after the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to pay money to obtain South American and British Mandatory Palestinian Passports with the promise that they could leave German-Occupied Europe. 2,500 Polish Jews were kept at the Hotel Polski in Warsaw and either killed right there or sent to the Death Camps.

Operation Highlander where the Polish Home Army hijacked a German Bank Car from the German Reichsbank with 10 Million Zlotys ($255,194.28 US Dollars in 2024) in it.

The Friedrichstrasse Railway Station Bombing where the Polish Home Army bombed the Railway Station in the Nazi German Capital of Berlin in 1943 killing 14 and wounding 60.

The "Oflag VII A Murnau" – a German Prisoner-Of-War Camp (Oflag) for Polish Officers during World War II, located in Bavaria in the city of Murnau am Staffelsee, liberated on April 29, 1945 by the American 12th Armored Division.

The "Pawiak" – the largest German Prison in the General Government of German-Occupied Poland, located on Pawia Street in Warsaw used by the Germans from 1939 until it was destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. 100,000 Polish Men, Women and Children passed through Pawiak. 37,000 of them were killed at Pawiak and 60,000 were shipped to Death Camps and Concentration Camps.

The Kidnapping and Trial of 16 Leaders of the Polish Underground State, including General Leopold Okulicki, Deputy Prime Minister Jan Stanisław Jankowski and Chairman of the RJN Kazimierz Pużak, by the Soviet NKVD under the command of Colonel Pimenov, from Pruszków to Moscow on March 27,28, 1945 where a Communist Show Trial was held.

The Warsaw Uprising – including its individual episodes, such as: the Capture of the Waffen-SS Warehouses at Stawki Street, the Liberation of 348 Jews from the KL Warschau Camp at Gęsia Street ("Gęsiówka"), Executions in the "Police District", the Massacre of Wola (65,000 Polish Men, Women and Children were murdered by the Germans), the Pacification of Ochota, the Defense of the Old Town, Using the Sewers as Transportation and the Expulsion of 550,000 inhabitants of Warsaw to the Transit Camp in Pruszków.

Time Of Honor also shows other things that occurred during and right after World War 2:

Nur für Deutsche (Only For Germans): Official Districts, Transportation, Parks, Cinemas, Restaurants, etc. that only Germans could use in German-Occupied Poland and Europe under Penalty of Death.

The Judenrat (Jewish Councils) created by the Germans to carry out their Orders in the different Ghettos (created and ran the Jewish Police Force to keep German Order, the Distribution of Housing and Food, selecting those for Forced Labor and selecting those to be deported to the Death Camps)

The Volksdeutsche (Ethnic Germans living outside of Germany itself that didn’t hold German Citizenship.) They were still treated as Germans (“The Master Race”) by the Nazis. By 1945 there were 8.7 Million Registered Volksdeutsche.

Jewish Converts to Christianity were treated as Jews (forced to wear the Star of David Armband, forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto and Deported to the Death Camps) if they had even 1 Jewish Grandparent. They were allowed to attend Church inside the Ghetto.

Grossaktion Warsaw (Great Action Warsaw) when the Germans deported 265,000 Jewish Men, Women and Children from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka Death Camp from July 23, 1942 to September 21, 1942.

Lapanka (Round-Up) the Germans would block off an entire Street and any Polish Man, Woman or Child caught on the Street or in their Home or Business would be taken as Forced Labor to Germany. From 1939-1944 an average of 400 Poles living in Warsaw were caught in Lapankas every day.

The difference and hatred between the Polish Government-In-Exile in London and the Polish Committee of National Liberation in Moscow. During and after the War the Soviet and Polish Communists killed any Pole who was with the London Government including those in the Polish resistance fighting the Germans in German-Occupied Poland.

The Post War Treatment of the German and Volksdeutsche by the Soviet and Polish Communists: in 1945 4.6 Million Germans lived under Polish and Soviet Control. By 1950, 3,155,000 had been transported to Germany, 1,043,550 were Forcibly Naturalized as Polish Citizens and 170,000 German Citizens still remained in Poland. 400,000 Germans were killed.

How the Soviet and Polish Communists censored the Holocaust in Poland, the Warsaw Uprising and the 1939 Soviet Invasion of eastern Poland after World War 2.

How Warsaw was 90% destroyed by the Germans during the War and had to be rebuilt.