The general Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (May 20th 1881 with Tuszow Narodowy - July 4th 1943 with Gibraltar), soldier and politician Polish, first Minister of the Polish Government in exile of 1939 to 1943.
From 1898 to 1902 he studies at the Training institute of the Masters with Rzeszów. In 1902 it integrates the School of the Bridges and Fitted Lwów. Student, it takes an active part in the activities of the Polish patriotic organizations. Between 1916 and 1918, it serves in the Austrian army , then joined the new Polish army. It takes part in the war polono-Bolshevik (1919-1920) as commander of the 3rd Army.
From 1921 to 1922, he is chief of staff of the army; between 1922 and 1923 he is Prime Minister, then, of 1924 to 1928, general inspector of the infantry; but in dissension with Józef Piłsudski, then Minister for the military businesses, it is dismissed.
In 1936-1939, general without attribution, he studies in France with the University of the War. Drawn aside the marketing year 1939, it leaves for France where on September 28th it begins the formation of the Polish army in exile. September 30th, 1939 it is named Prime Minister for the Republic Polonaise. November 7th he becomes also the chief of the armies and sets up the Polish army in France (84 000 men). After the defeat of France, it signs on August 5th, 1940 an agreement with the the United Kingdom for the rebuilding of the Polish army on British Isles.
July 30th, 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, it signs the agreement of formation of the Polish army of the East, which will allow the release of thousands of Poles off-set in Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941.
In 1943, Wehrmacht discovers the mass grave of Katyń where are more than 4.500 bodies of Polish officers piled up in several pits; Radio-Berlin makes the discovery public on April 13rd, 1943 by showing the Soviets of the fixed price. Two days after, Soviet denies their responsibility on the waves by retorting that the Nazis made these atrocities during their advance during the year 1941. The discovery in forest of Katyń leads the USSR however to break its diplomatic relations with the Polish government, which had vainly sought to find the remainders of its army as of June 1941, after the entry in war of the Soviet Union. The Polish government in exile will send a delegation of the Polish Red Cross, which Stalin will not forgive.
July 4th, 1943, the general Władysław Sikorski and other members of the Polish government are killed in what seems to be an air crash, without one being able however to draw aside the thesis of a Soviet attack. The apparatus took off Gibraltar, bringing back Sikorski of an inspection of the Polish armies in the Close East. The circumstances of its death are far from being cleared up, the files of the British investigation having to remain secret until 2050.
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