Aleksander Krzy%C5%BCanowski


Aleksander Krzyanowski nom de guerre Wilk was a Polish army officer, major, member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and Commandant of the Armia Krajowa in the Vilnius Region. After the German withdrawal from the area, on July 17, 1944 Krzyanowski had been duped by the Soviets into a fake debriefing, arrested and thrown in jail. He died in Stalinist prison on September 29, 1951 without a trial.

Aleksander Krzyanowski was born in Bryansk and was conscripted into the Russian Army during the First World War, where he specialized in artillery. After Poland regained independence in 1918 he joined the Polish military, and took part in the PolishSoviet War where he distinguished himself in 1919 receiving the Krzy Walecznych medal, and in January 1920 he took part in the heavy fighting at the Battle of Daugavpils.

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