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| Operation Bürkl | |||||||
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| Part ofOccupation of Poland (1939–1945) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Polish Underground State |  Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Jerzy Zborowski | Franz Bürkl † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 5 soldiers | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None | 7-9 killed | ||||||
Operation Bürkl (operacja Bürkl), or thespecial combat action Bürkl (specjalna akcja bojowa Bürkl), was an operation by thePolish resistance conducted on 7 September 1943. It was the second action ofOperation Heads, a series ofassassinations of notorious SS officers inWarsaw carried out by theKedyw's special group Agat ("Anti-Gestapo") between 1943 and 1944, and their first success.[1]
The goal of the operation was to "liquidate"Franz Bürkl, a notoriousSicherheitspolizei NCO who had been sentenced to death by the PolishUnderground courts for the murder of at least several dozen people. Bürkl was ambushed in broad daylight on the city's mainMarszałkowska Street by a group of five youngAK partisans armed withSten submachine guns andFilipinka hand grenades. The assassins, led by 21-year-oldJerzy Zborowski, were recruited for Agat from the underground scouting organizationSzare Szeregi. Bürkl and seven other German policemen were killed in the 90-second shoot-out. While the operation resulted in no losses for the resistance, the Nazis killed 20 inmates ofPawiak prison in apublic execution in reprisal.[2]