Hotties from History

Hotty from History #19 - Henryk Flame (1918-1947)

Although HFH is by no means a competition between the writers to find the hottest hotty from history, I do believe that if Henryk Flame took part in a strange risen from the dead zombie pageant, he would outright win.

Now this is why.

Henryk was born in Austria and moved to Poland with his family when he was still a baby, and grew up in at a time of inter-war Poland. He joined the air-cadets at the age of 25, and 3 years later, in 1939 completed his training, in time for a all out war, which put Poland against the two most terrifying powers of the time, the Nazis and Soviets.

Obviously Poland was never going to defeat the formidable Nazis and Soviets, and after surviving after his plane was shot down, he was captured in Hungary, yet he escaped, unharmed, so there is reason to say he was a lucky guy. Yet however, Poland fell to the hands of Hitler and Stalin, and Poland ceased to exist.

After the war, which saw the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the tight grip on the whole of Eastern Europe by the Soviets, Flame continued to fight for his Poland, forming the largest anti-soviet underground partisan group, which, although was successful in humiliating the Soviet officials, was squashed in 1946 when 200 of Henryk’s men were ambushed, drugged, and murdered by Soviet forces. This was repeated again later in the year, when a large majority of his men were captured, and murdered.

Following this, Henryk saw no choice but to give himself up, and during an amnesty written by the soviets, encouraging partisan fighters to reveal themselves without fear of prosecution (a blatant lie) he handed himself over, and was subsequently assassinated in 1947.

Not only is Henryk an actual hotty, and not only does his name Flame denote hotness, Henryk Flame’s patriotism and determination and devotion to fight for his country is an absolute inspiration, and therefore is a definite hotty.

- Tom