Death of a Hero

Those who have said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship, like a wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died at his own hand, just a few hours before Adolf Hitler entered his city.*

*Since the report of Mayor Starzynski's death came from Berlin, he may have died at German hands, and been given the glory (so that Germany would not have the shame). Germans may even have wished him dead, and said he was--without basis.

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