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Juliusz Rómmel

Polandb. 3 June 1881 · d. 8 September 1967Add to favourites

Given command of the Łódź Army in March 1939; after the war began on 1 September his army was outmanoeuvred and cut off from the rest of the Polish forces. He arrived in Warsaw on the night of 7–8 September 1939 and took command of the ad hoc Warsaw Army; on 27 September he began negotiations with Germany over the city's surrender. He was held in prisoner-of-war camps, including Oflag IV-B Königstein and Oflag VII-A Murnau, until the US 12th Armored Division liberated him in April 1945, returned to Poland, retired in 1947 and died in Warsaw in 1967.