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Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Polandb. 15 April 1885 · d. 8 January 1947Add to favourites

Commanded the Poznań Army in 1939, made up of four infantry divisions and two cavalry brigades. He designed the Polish counter-attack plan for the Battle of the Bzura and commanded the Poznań and Pomorze armies during the fighting, then fought his way to Warsaw, arriving on 22 September. On Juliusz Rómmel's orders he opened capitulation talks with the German 8th Army and signed the surrender documents on 28 September. He was held in German prisoner-of-war camps until American forces liberated his camp in April 1945 and died of cancer in London in 1947.