Historical calendar: anniversary of the start of the “Witold Group” trial before the Military territory Court in Warsaw.
Today in our calendar we will look at the course of the investigation and the trial itself.
On March 3, 1948, the trial of Witold Pilecki, captain of the Polish Army cavalry, soldier of the Home Army, 1 of the soldiers cursed, fighting in the post-war independency underground began.
An earlier investigation, on behalf of MVP, was supervised by 1 of the biggest Stalinist criminals, Józef Rozański (real name: Goldberg). He ignored all the facts in Pilecki's favor, including his reports from Auschwitz, based on preposterous papers concerning the alleged plan to execution people at the head of the MBP.
During Pilecki's brutal investigation they interviewed: Marian Krawczyński, Zbigniew Kiszel and Eugeniusz Chimczak, 1 of the cruelest investigators from Rakowiecka.
Colonel Adam Umer (Humer) besides participated in the investigation concerning the alleged Witold Group. According to evidence submitted before the IPN by the then investigating officer, Marian Krawczyński, in the trial against Czesław Łapinski, Krawczyński received on 23 January 1948 a ready-made draft of the act of prosecution of Witold Pilecki by Humer. In 1994, Adam Humer was convicted of torture at the time of his testimony, died during a hiatus in the execution of the sentence.
The order for temporary arrest was signed and over the course of the Pilecki case was ‘felt’ by Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor for peculiar matters, later lawyer General Henryk Podlaski (real name: Hersz), liable for violent investigations and violation of the regulation of law, applying various forms of force on judges.
The prosecution in Pilecki's case was Deputy Prosecution of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, Major Czesław Łapinski, erstwhile AK-owiec; a traitor holding the blood of many of the Cursed Soldiers.
It was clear in advance that the Polish hero could only wait for a death sentence. This conviction was handed down on March 15, by judges ruling before the war – Colonel Jan Hryckowian and Major Leo Hochberg. Both of them arranged their lives in “new Poland” and in Stalinist times sent many soldiers to their deaths underground independence.
On May 3, 1948, the ultimate Military Court maintained its WSR ruling. Major Rubin of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office has done so. The death conviction was carried out on Pilecki on 25 May in a Mokotov prison on Rakowiecka, by shooting in the back of the head. The executioner of the conviction was the celebrated Piotr Sztański, called ‘Kat from Mokotowa’.
After the execution of the captain of Pilecki in 1948, his household was not informed of the execution of the sentence, and the package delivered to prison by his wife was handed over with the information that he had “gone”. Closers learned the fact much later. Witold Pilecki's daughter – Zofia Pilecka-Optułowicz – spent years unsuccessfully searching for her father's grave. The captain's bodies have not yet been found. Search continues.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here..
