Władysław Anders during maneuvers. The interwar period.
Władysław Anders (1892-1970) - Polish military. From 1934, he was a brigadier general. Participant in the September campaign, seriously wounded in fights with the Soviet troops, interned on September 29. In 1939-1941 he was in captivity, among others in the NKVD prison in Lubianka. Released in the summer of 1941 as a consequence of the conclusion of the Sikorski-Majski pact, and then appointed commander of the Polish Army in the USSR that was being created.
He was in favor of the evacuation of Polish troops from the territory of the Soviet Union, which took place at the turn of 1942 and 1943. Commander of the Second Polish Corps, famous, inter alia, in the Battle of Monte Cassino and in the battles for Ancona. In the years 1946-1954 the commander-in-chief and the general inspector of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He was deprived of his citizenship by the communist authorities. He died in London, never returning to Poland.