General Stanislaw Maczek

“The Polish soldier fights for the freedom of all nations but dies only for Poland” The eldest sons of Marian Wielezynski, Leszek and Ignacy, fled Poland in September 1939 and soon joined “La 10e Brigade de cavalerie blindée polonaise” in the camp of Coëtquidan at Guer, France, where they trained under General Maczek who, after his heroic campaign of Poland, was re-organizing in France his brigade, the so-called “Black Brigade”, to continue fighting the Nazis. General Maczek was born near Lvov in 1892 and began his military career as an officer in the Austrian Army, fighting on the Italian front in 1914.  At the end of World War I, the […]