Operation Bürkl

'''Operation Bürkl''' (''operacja Bürkl''), or the '''special combat action Bürkl''' (''specjalna akcja bojowa Bürkl''), was an operation by the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II|Polish resistance]] conducted on September 7, 1943. It was the second action of [[Operacja Główki|Operation Heads]], a series of [[assassination]]s of notorious SS officers in [[Warsaw]] carried out by the [[Kedyw]]'s special group Agat ("Anti-[[Gestapo]]") between 1943 and 1944, and their first success. The goal of the operation was to "liquidate" [[Franz Bürkl]], a notorious [[Sicherheitspolizei]] officer who had been sentenced to death by the Polish [[Special Courts]] for the murder of at least several dozen people. Bürkl was ambushed in broad daylight on the city's main [[Marszałkowska Street, Warsaw|Marszałkowska Street]] by a group of five young [[Armia Krajowa|AK]] fighters armed with [[Sten submachine gun]]s and [[Filipinka]] hand grenades. The assassins, led by 21-year-old [[Jerzy Zborowski]], were recruited for Agat from the underground scouting organization [[Szare 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 of [[Pawiak]] in a [[public execution]] in reprisal. ==External links== [http://www.169.zhr.pl/historia_harcerstwa/akcje/burkl/burkl.htm Specjalna operacja bojowa Bürkl] [http://208.pl/strona/index.php?option=com_content§ionid=0&task=view&&id=49 Specjalna operacja bojowa Bürkl] (a different article) {{coord missing|Masovian Voivodeship}}