Fight for Polish recruit

German armed force has shown about the Verdun Fortress. France was saved and ready to defend the legitimate rights of her and other people. In the fighting with the offensive Brusiłów, which the Germans managed to stop on the line west of the Brodów and the rock legionaries showed their combat value. The moment came when the Germans were necessary "Polnische Wehrmacht", which some evaluated in half a million, Others for the whole million, Some wanted to take free -they were free for political licenses. Especially the NKN in Krakow and Sikorski at the head of the department were inclined to announce the inclusion. Only now Austria, beaten by the Russians, She could not compete with Prussia in resolving the Polish case. Legions belonged to her formally, But German chiefs were to bring out the recruits: Hindenburg and his Ludendorff quartermaster, Both brought up in Poznań, A hooks breathless. As 11-12 August 1916 r. Central states with a secret Viennese system have engaged the inviolability of old partitions. The congresses subjected to Berlin under power, and Poles for recruitment promised "independence" without army and railways, without the right to conduct foreign policy, with the simultaneous cutting of the Western border.

Piłsudski's heavy losses of the Legions in Volhynia, that he demanded resignation and used his peowiaki to break the legions. When Romania attacked Transylvania (27 VIII 1916 r.), The Austrian government decided to raise the Legions to the size of the Polish auxiliary corps, At the same time, accepting Piłsudski's resignation. It did not affect the mood of the congress. On the same days, When Berlin and Vienna "became independent" of Poles, The secret congress of the passivists in Lublin adopted even by force to oppose recruitment. They were known in these wheels from Dr. Stefan Dąbrowski about rapid exhausting of reserves in central countries, And the Germans themselves knew about it even better, When they decided, In the absence of cannon meat, Return even hundreds of thousands of slaves working on the farm from Poland, who will allow the Reich to survive the British blockade and release so many native Germans to the front. The first elected capital city council protested against this violation of international law, Nevertheless, the consumption reminiscent of Teutonic round -ups in the province was successful. Crowds of rural and workers' youth went to the Reich to exploitation and misery, But it is thanks to this that so many native Germans went to the front – not for victory.