Leopold Okulicki
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General Leopold Okulicki was a Polish Army Brigadier General and the last commander of the anti-Nazi underground Home Army during World War II and the German occupation of Poland.
Okulicki in 1943
AT right: Col. Okulicki, commanding 7th Infantry Division in Persia
Okulicki after 1945 arrest by NKVD
Okulicki during Trial of the Sixteen
Trial of the Sixteen
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The Trial of the Sixteen was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet authorities in Moscow in 1945. All captives were kidnapped by the NKVD secret service and f
Leopold Okulicki
…with "preparing an armed uprising against the Soviet Union in league with the Germans." Okulicki was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in the staged Trial of the Sixteen. Under international law, this was a completely illegal verdict. He independently defended Poland in the courtroom against Soviet accusations. "He left…
The show trial of 16 leaders of the Polish wartime underground movement (including the Home Army and civil authorities) convicted of "drawing up plans for military action against the U.S.S.R.", Moscow, June 1945. All of them had been invited to help organize the new "Polish Government of National Unity" in March 1945 and were subsequently captured by the NKVD.
AK soldiers Parasol Regiment Warsaw Uprising 1944