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10-year-old Tadziu crept up to the coat of a soldier of the first Polish unit that entered Poznań in 1945. With a blunt kitchen knife, he ripped off the button with the desired eagle. He knelt down in his room and did not know whether to thank God for freedom or apologize for the theft. Years later, Tadeusz Anioła recalls that day, and we check who the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 35th Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division of the Second Polish Army under the command of Captain Michał Świerczewski were and what they were doing in Poznań in February 1945.