SKANDAL! Polish Post withdraws stamp with national hero

He reported on your Facebook profile prof. Jan Żaryn, fresh Management of the Polish Post Office (or for certain Polish?) suspended, already printed and prepared for circulation on 1 March this year, the issue of a stamp from the series "National Day of Memory of the Cursed Soldiers".

Polish Post withdraws the stamp with the hero of anti-communist fights. The stamp, which was withdrawn, was to commemorate Major Hieronim Dekutowski's “Ball”, murdered by the communists at Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw on 7 March 1949, 75 years ago.

Due to this shocking information, we print a full résumé of this Polish national hero.

Jerome Dekutowski was born on 24 September 1918 in Dzików, a village where the Dzikowska Confederation was imprisoned in 1734. He was the youngest boy of John and Mary of Sudack. He was educated at the Hetman Tarnowski Men's Public School in Tarnobrzeg and then at the State Secondary School with the same patron. He associated discipline with scouting, and later besides membership in the school's Military Adoption Company. After his graduation, he planned to undertake higher education, but these intentions crossed the outbreak of planet War II.

On September 8, 1939, he left Tarnobrzeg and headed for Lviv. It seems that he planned to volunteer there to join the ranks of the Polish Army, but it is impossible to find whether this happened, although it is known that he reached Lviv. On 12 October, he joined a tiny military group headed by General Bronisław Duch, with whom he entered Hungary through the Skole and the hard-to-access areas of the east Carpathians. After a short stay in the internment camp, through Budapest and further most likely through the Balkans and Italy, he made his way to France.

On 28 November 1939, he joined the ranks of the Polish Army and was assigned to the 4th Infantry Regiment, which was part of the 2nd Infantry firearm Division. After graduating from the sub-office school, he stayed at Coëtquidan since the beginning of March 1940. The course started at the foothills School of Infantry there was interrupted by the German offensive on the western front. On October 12, 1939, he joined a tiny military group commanded by General Bronisław the Spirit, with which through the Skole and the hard-to-access areas of the east Carpathians he made his way to Hungary.

On 23 June 1940, Decutowski was evacuated to the UK, where he was assigned to the 1st firearm Brigade. In early 1941 he graduated with honors from the Dundee Infantry College in Scotland. On April 24, 1942, he volunteered to service in the country.

After completing specialized courses, among others: diversional-miner, shooting, physical, diversional and parachute tactics on March 4, 1943, he was sworn in as "quiet" and appointed a corporal of the subject. He besides received false papers under the name Henry Zagon and adopted the nickname “The Dam”. 2 days later, he was transferred to the School Department of the Chief Chief of Staff.

He jumped to the occupied country on the night of 16th to 17th September 1943 as part of Operation "Neon I" of the XXXI silent crew. After landing at Wyszkowa, he was promoted to lieutenant. He arrived in Warsaw on the same day, after the essential acclimatization in the first half of October 1943, he was assigned to the Kediv territory of AK Lublin. Initially, he served in the branch of Lieutenant Tadeusz Kuncewicz “Podkowy” operating in the game forests.

He jumped to the occupied country on the night of 16th to 17th September 1943 as part of Operation "Neon I" of the XXXI silent crew.

Postage stamp withdrawn.

At the beginning of January 1944, Lieutenant Dekutowski was directed to another part of Lublinszczyzna, where he took command of the Kediv's Disposal Branch and the Kediv Command of the territory Inspectorate of AK Lublin-Puława. During the period from February to July 1944, over 90 armed actions directed at the German occupier were carried out by the territory of Lublin and Puławy commanded by the “Profession”. During the “Burza” Action, Lieutenant Dekutowski led the protection of the Lublin territory staff.

On 28 July, after the Red Army entered, the Dam dissolved its branch, and he himself was hiding in fear of arrest. In August, together with the remobilized unit, he went to aid the fighting Warsaw, but due to the attitude of the Russians they failed to cross the Vistula River. The "wall" again went to conspiracy. Until the end of 1944, he hid, among others, in Podkarpacie and Lublin.

In January 1945, due to the repression of the NKVD and the actions of the communist safety apparatus “The Dam” resumed guerrilla activity. Its aim was to defend the erstwhile soldiers of his ward. The first major skirmish led by him was fought on 6 February 1945 in the village of Wal in the Krasnostaw district. “Zaprze” was then able to remove its soldiers from the lap of NKWD and UB officers.

In the following months, the group commanded by him included, among others, a group of deserters from the People's Polish Army under the command of the lieutenants. Romana Sochala "Juranda" and the branch of Part-in-Chief Stanisław Łukasik "Rysia".

On 16 April 1945, the “Professor” branch took over the MO station in Kraśnik, and on 27 April, Janów Lubelski took over the “Podkowy” and Tadeusz Borkowski “Mat” wards in cooperation with Lieutenant Tadeusz Kuncewicz. Here he broke down, among others, the local prison, releasing respective people.

In May 1945, “The Dam” reorganized the Partisanian Branch Group that was subordinate to it. He divided them into companies, and these into platoons. In mid-May 1945, subdivisions under his command in a fewer days broke up the MO stations in Bełżyce, Urząd, Józefów and Kazimierz Dolny. In June, he was appointed commander of all guerrilla troops in Lublin, and from the Commandment of the Armed Forces Delegateate to the Land of Lublin he was promoted to captain.

However, in the following months, as a consequence of the amnesty announced on 22 July 1945, as well as the aggressive actions with a crushing numerical advantage of the NKVD, UB, KBW, MO and LWP branches, nearly 200 soldiers of the “Professorship”, including his close associate Stanisław Wnuk “Opal”. He himself, having no assurance in the communist authorities, did not take specified a step, but dissolved his subordinate troops, keeping only the residual organizational structure.

In October 1945, together with a dozen-man group of sub-commandant Captain Decutowski, he made an unsuccessful effort to enter the Allied business region in Germany. After a ten-day hike by Czechoslovakia, pursued by a local safety apparatus, the “Ball” and the last remaining soldier returned to Poland with the transport of repatriates. According to a hard to verify legend, they were even to scope the U.S. embassy in Prague, where they were denied the expected assistance.

After the re-establishment of the group – most likely at the turn of November and December 1945, the "Ball" subjugated them to the state of Lublin of the Association "Freedom and Independence", but already in the spring of 1946 the numerical advantage of communist safety forces forced another change in the organisation and tactics of guerrillas. The Dam group was divided into many smaller subdivisions in continuous motion.

It now had a full of about 150 partisans under arms, and respective twelve others were in the facilities. They continued to actively carry out actions aimed at the communist safety apparatus, and in June 1946 they joined propaganda activities preceding the referendum.

At the end of July 1946, “The Dam” at the head of part of its group crossed San and headed for Rzeszów. On July 31, they shot the commandant of the MO station in Grębów, 2 days later in Switaki they fought a victorious fight with the LWP unit supported by the UB, and on August 8 in Ostrowa Tuszowskie with Red Army soldiers. They besides conducted respective actions in the vicinity of Mielec: among others, they disarmed the MO station and in National Tuszów took over the Mielec–Tarnobrzeg relation train.

From there, the group moved towards Jasl and Krosn, reaching the Dukla area, then returning to Lublin. This coincided with the promotion of the Dam to major.

In the following weeks, individual platoons of groups, frequently divided into even smaller teams, continued to carry out intensive military activities aimed at communist authorities.

After the communists falsified the January 1947 elections and announced a period later the amnesty occurred through the previously revealed “Opal” to establish talks between the “Ball” and the UB. In exchange for stopping the fight and revealing the guerrillas demanded the release of the arrested underground soldiers.

However, the talks did not produce the expected results. Nevertheless, during the next gathering at the turn of February and March, the deputy of the “Protest”, Aleksander Głowacki “Wisła”, and as a consequence of a conversation with the Major, appeared. Jan Tataj, head of the Lublin WUBP, was released from prison by respective soldiers of the “WiN” Association.

21 June 1947 in the village of Siewalka in the presence of, among others, the Commandant of the Lublin territory of the “WiN” Association – Colonel Wilhelm Szczepankiewicz “Drugak” and Major. Jan Tataj besides revealed himself “The Dam”.

However, most likely already at the beginning of September, threatened with arrest, he decided – together with the previously participating in talks with the UB Inspectorate of the Lublin Association of “WiN”, Władysław Sią-Nowicki “Stefan” – to effort to escape abroad.

On 12 September, he issued his last order to Zdzisław Broński ‘Uskok’, under which he handed him command over the another guerrilla branches of the ‘WiN’ Association District. A day later, he arrived in Warsaw, and on 15 September 1947 with his adjutant lieutenant. Jerzy Miatkowski “Zawada” went to Katowice and then to Nysa, to the contact point at 6 Dąbrowskiego Street.

Most likely that's where they were both arrested. another failed participants in the effort to cross the border were besides detained: Władysław Siła-Nowicki "Stefan", Arkadiusz Wasilewski "Biały", Edmund Tudruj "Mundek", Stanisław Łukasik "Ryś", Roman Groński "Żbik" and Tadeusz Pelak "Junak".

According to today's state of the art, the escape was most likely staged by MBP, which utilized information from more than 60 suspects in the "Front" environment for this purpose. The most crucial were the erstwhile deputy of the “Protest”, Stanisław Wnuk “Opal”, and Helena Moore “Lena”.

After the arrest of the Dam, they and their companions were transported to Będzin, where they were interviewed for many days in the PUBP building. During the first period of the investigation in Będzino the case of Major Dekutowski was led by Lt. Jerzy Kędzior, and after being transported to the prison at Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw – Lt. Eugeniusz Chimczak and Lt. Ludwik Borowski. The investigation continued from 19 September 1947 to 1 June 1948.

Major Decutowski was interrogated respective times at the time. The indictment was prepared by Lieutenant Eugene Chimczak, approved by Major Adam Humer. During the trial before the Military territory Court in Warsaw, which lasted from 3 to 15 November 1948, Major Decutowski dismissed any of the previously forced evidence on it. In the end, however, by judgement of the court led by Major Józef Badecki, all defendants were sentenced to multiple death sentences – Dekutowski himself to 7 times.

Requests for pardon from both the parent and the eldest sister were rejected, as was the review complaint of the lawyer. On February 4, 1949, the conviction was approved by the ultimate Military Court, and president Bolesław Bierut did not exercise the right of grace over Jerome Decutowski and his six soldiers.

Only Władysław Sile-Nowicki replaced the death punishment with a life sentence, which was decided by the intercession of the sister of Felix Dzierżyński, Aldona, related to the Force-Nowicki, at the russian Ambassador to Poland, Viktor Lebedev.

At the turn of January and February 1949, Major Dekutowski together with others imprisoned in the prison on Rakowiecka prepared a plan of escape: a sharpened spoon drilled a gap in the ceiling of the section of the cell intended for the toilet, then by the attic it was intended to get to the roof of low farm buildings, and then slide down the associated sheets and jump on the sidewalk of Rakowiecka Street.

Once everything was ready and only waiting for the moonless night, the plan betrayed 1 of the criminals. All the runaways were in the hole. From there on 7 March 1949, Major Hieronim Dekutowski dressed in German uniform was brought to his death.

He was murdered in the basement of Mokotów prison around 19.00 hours with a shot in the head by Sergeant Piotr Śmietański. Then, at five-minute intervals, the remaining convicts suffered death.

23 May 1994. The Provincial Court in Warsaw overturned the judgement given to Jerome Decutowski and his soldiers.

Today, on March 1, we celebrate the national day of remembrance of the Cursed Soldiers.

OUR COMMENTS: The withdrawal of the issue of the stamp representing the Polish national hero proves that the Polish judaic woman, who destroyed Polish patriotism in the 1940s and 1950s, is ruled by the judaic community.

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