Chapter 236 - 236: The Quiet Conquest

For over a week since Warsaw's fall, the lands south of it had been slowly, steadily emptying.

By the 8th of August, most villages stood silent.

Fields lay abandoned—some burned black, others left to grow wild and untended. A few stubborn souls had tried to remain, clinging to their land, working in quiet defiance despite the fear creeping ever closer. But even they had broken in the end. When the German aircraft—the so-called thunder birds—began circling overhead, the last of them packed what they could and fled.

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