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
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
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.
Trial of the Sixteen
…Polish politicians were presented with a warrant of safety, but were instead arrested in Pruszków and brutally beaten by the NKVD on 27 and 28 March. Leopold Okulicki, Jan Stanisław Jankowski and Kazimierz Pużak were arrested on the 27th with 12 others the following day. Alexander Zwierzyński had been arrested earlier…
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