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WLADYSLAW ANDERS

Wladyslaw Anders was a Polish General and patriot. He was born in 1892 and died in 1970. He led an army against the German invasion of Poland in the 1939, only to be captured by the Russians during the partition of Poland later that year. He was released when Germany invaded Russia, and reformed his army which became known officially as Polish II Corps, unofficially as 'Anders' Army', and fought with the Allies as part of the British Eighth Army in Italy from 1944, taking Monte Casino in May 1944. after the war he, and most of his II Corps stayed in England.
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