[1] With Maksymilian Iksal having declared the commencement of the uprising in Upper Silesia, Alojzy Fizia the commander of POW G.Śl.

[3] Stationing German forces in Paprotzan were directly subordinate to a division commanded by Major Aldenhoven.

German soldiers in the village were quartered in the houses of local farmers: on the lands of Teofil Czypek, Walentyn Czardybon, the Jarek family, Karol Goja, Wildner and Jan Bortl as well as in the school building and a pub owned by Salomon Richter (3-8 men in every building).

Shortly before the insurgents' attack on Paprotzan, a part of the artillery battery left the village headed for Czulow where fighting had broken out.

As planned, Szczygieł's 2nd company was headed for Paprotzan next where it intended on defeating the German battery of field artillery stationing in the village.