In the first months of WWII, millions of Polish citizens and soldiers were deported to the Soviet Union. As prisoners of war, hundreds of thousands perished from cold, starvation and execution. But after the German invasion of Russia, these exiles and prisoners were crafted into an army to fight the Nazis. The man to lead them was Wladyslaw Anders. This is the tale of Ander’s exiled Polish army.

Sources

"An Army in Exile: The Story of the Second Polish Corps" by Władysław Anders

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Anders

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Władysław_Anders.jpg

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