Harsh reality has no meaning to the true Polish patriot. For Maj. Henry Dobrzanski of the 110th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, the capitulation of the Polish Army and destruction of the Polish state were no reasons to stop fighting the Germans. He gathered volunteers from his unit, and civilian men and women who volunteered to join them, and continued to ambush small German units for months. The government in exile ordered him to stop, to spare civilians from the brutal retaliation the Germans visited on them after every successful attack, but still Dobrzanski and his mounted partisans continued their raids. But his luck had to run out eventually, and near the village of Annielen the Germans sprang their own trap.

The Germans surrounded the Polish encampment and poured fire into the Poles, who desperately tried to break out to freedom. Dobrzanski and his command staff were shot and killed, and the Germans proceeded to desecrate his corpse. The body was never found.