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Stanisław Józef Bronisław Kasznica (July 25, 1908 – May 12, 1948) was the last commander of the National Armed Forces (NSZ), an anti-communist, and anti-Nazi paramilitary organization, which was part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and in the period following it.
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Stanisław Józef Bronisław Kasznica (July 25, 1908 – May 12, 1948) was the last commander of the National Armed Forces (NSZ), an anti-communist, and anti-Nazi paramilitary organization, which was part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and in the period following it.
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Biography He was born in Lwów, and his father, Stanisław Wincenty Antoni Kasznica, was rector and professor of the Poznań University in Greater Poland. During World War II he initially fought in the Polish Army, joining the National Armed Forces resistance group after the defeat of Polish military. He participated in the September Campaign of 1939, serving as a reconnaissance officer and then as commander of the 1st Platoon of the 2nd Battery in the 7th Horse Artillery Divizion of the Greater Poland Cavalry Brigade under the command of General Roman Abraham. In General Tadeusz Kutrzeba's Army, he fought in the Battle of the Bzura, advanced from Kutno to Warsaw, and defended the capital. For these actions, he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari. From October 1939, he was a leading underground activist of the so-called Szaniec Group (a wartime continuation of the National Radical Camp (ONR-ABC) and one of the co-founders of the Military Organization Lizard Union, a military organization outside the ONR, organizing civilian commissariats on behalf of the ONR-ABC. In Warsaw, he headed the communications of the Lizard Union and the National Armed Forces, while also heading the legal and administrative group and the…
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Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (posthumously, 2009)
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Cross of Valour Cross of the National Armed Deed (posthumously, 1993) Silver Cross of the National Deed Armed with Swords (1944)