In Poland, the episode has become one of the better known episodes of the Polish September Campaign and it is usually portrayed as a heroic story of David and Goliath proportions.
In this view, it was a group of postmen who held out against German SS troops for almost an entire day.
In 1979, the Defenders of the Polish Post Office monument was unveiled in Gdańsk.

The Polish defence of the post office was also sympathetically portrayed in Chapter 18 of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 'The Defence of the Polish Post Office'.
In the chapter, the protagonist Oskar Matzerath meets his presumptive father Jan Bronski as the latter heads home, trying to avoid fighting in the looming battle.
Upon meeting Oskar, Jan returns to the post office, taking Oskar with him.
Oskar is present during the siege, and portrays his presumptive father negatively to the SS, leading him to find himself guilty of Jan's execution.
In the novel's penultimate chapter, Oskar and his friend Vittlar encounter a survivor of the siege in Düsseldorf, Viktor Weluhn, whom two men were preparing to execute for his actions at the siege.
Viktor and his executioners disappear into the night later in the chapter, with Viktor's fate left unknown.

The defence of the post office is dramatised in the first episode of World on Fire
In Poland, the episode has become one of the better known episodes of the Polish September Campaign and it is usually portrayed as a heroic story of David and Goliath proportions. In this view, it was a group of postmen who held out against German SS troops for almost an entire day. In 1979, the Defenders of the Polish Post Office monument was unveiled in Gdańsk.
The Polish defence of the post office was also sympathetically portrayed in Chapter 18 of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 'The Defence of the Polish Post Office'. In the chapter, the protagonist Oskar Matzerath meets his presumptive father Jan Bronski as the latter heads home, trying to avoid fighting in the looming battle. Upon meeting Oskar, Jan returns to the post office, taking Oskar with him. Oskar is present during the siege, and portrays his presumptive father negatively to the SS, leading him to find himself guilty of Jan's execution. In the novel's penultimate chapter, Oskar and his friend Vittlar encounter a survivor of the siege in Düsseldorf, Viktor Weluhn, whom two men were preparing to execute for his actions at the siege. Viktor and his executioners disappear into the night later in the chapter, with Viktor's fate left unknown.
The defence of the post office is dramatised in the first episode of World on Fire
Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig