
Wladyslaw Anders (11 August 1892-12 May 1970) was the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and a Lieutenant-General of Poland during World War II.
Biography[]
Wladyslaw Anders was born on 11 August 1892 in Krosniewice-Blonie, Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a family of Baltic Germans, and he served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. When Poland gained its independence in 1919, Anders became a general of the new Polish Army and fought against the Soviet Union during the Polish-Soviet War, becoming a general staff officer. Anders was captured by the Russians in 1939 during the invasion of Poland, but he was allowed to leave for Palestine in 1942 after the Russo-German campaign had begun. There he helped form the Polish II Corps, which fought with distinction in Italy, most notably at Monte Cassino. After the war, the Polish People's Republic deprived him of citizenship and rank due to his allegiance to the Allied Powers and not the Comintern, and Anders died in London, England in 1970.