The Capital Publishing home publishes a fascinating book by Andrzej Ceglarski "General Zagórski's Sprew. execution almost perfect” (details on capitalbook.com). Below we present the final fragments of the book:
"In the course of the investigation, interesting evidence was collected concerning, among others, chemical and biological experiments carried out in Brest over Bug. These experiments began in the second half of the 1920 ’ s, although their intensification took place only after 1933. At that time, witnesses, including Dr. Alfons Ostrowski, testified about the work of the Brest laboratory and the experiments conducted there, mentioning besides dying in the terrible torments of their victim.
In May 1955, Dr. Jan Golba sent a letter to the lawyer General of the Polish People’s Republic of Poland: “I did indeed make experiences on individuals with pathogenic microbes on the Experiential Station in Brest on the Bug. This is simply a fact I do not deny.” Then he explained: “The execution of these tests was commissioned to me by my superiors in the form of a military order. Before experimenting, my superiors stated that the persons to be tested were irrevocably sentenced to death?’
As he explains, he was convinced that this could best support his homeland, threatened by external enemies. Persons destined for experiments were supplied to Brest by the Head of Division III of the General Staff. They were most commonly closed in the force chamber into which the thifus suspension was injected. Then the rate of action of the bacteria was observed. After the prisoner was killed, his corpse was dissolved in a peculiar stone bath filled with a mixture of hydrochloric acid with carbon disulfide and concentrated nitric acid. Hydrochloric acid decalcified bones, carbon disulfide dissolved fats, and nitric acid burned tissue (protein) and decalculated bones.
These works and experiments, as we know present and in the light of erstwhile publications, have surely been taking place since the 1920s, but only intensification in the next decade. They were to be a consequence to the bioweapon trials made by the Soviets in 1926, at least since 1925. The first traces of specified work in Brest are in any case not earlier than in 1927. So, was Kostek-Biernacki actually in 1927 in Brest, over the Bug, active in a circumstantial experimentation with a fresh kind of ravishing weapon? Was the search for the body of General Zagórski brought to Brest over the Bug, erstwhile Kostek started experiments, not doomed from the beginning? General Zagórski's bodies were never found, it was besides carefully in item a thoughtful action to make it possible.
As wrote in these days, i.e. in September 1927, the then wife of Colonel Jan Jur-Gorzechowski, a well-known Polish writer, Zofia Nałkowska: "Jur (now) runs between Warsaw, Brest, Górki and various places of good hunting". Nałkowska continues to compose about the fact that Gorzechowski, for his stay in Brest, cursed and sicked all day of his stay, which he treated as a dove of God, but obedience to the Marshal did not let him to avoid this hated work. It was in 1927 that Colonel Jan Jur-Gorzechowski replaced the commandant of the garrison in Brest over the Bug Kostka-Biernacki. General Kordian Overseas told that he had to go to this very Brest he would yet destruct the remains of the gas experiments (which were made there by Kostka-Biernacki), yet that he had arranged everything. He said that the remains of the experience along with the remains were buried, after which, having put up a police station, he even banned cows from falling at this place.
General Kordian Zamorski unambiguously wrote: “By his position [he was then head of the 1st branch of the General Staff and then chief of the State Police – A.C.] I know that there was no gas experience in Brest.” Who would choose Kostka-Biernacki, who had no experience or qualifications in this regard?
Cruel and grim seems to be the most likely end of this story. This was Kostek-Biernacki, not only a fanatical admirer of Marshal Piłsudski, but besides undoubtedly the most celebrated Polish satanist, apologist and a follower of evil. As he wrote: “Pray to the fallen enemy, his wife, his children, etc. can only fools, and liars feel remorse.” specified a man was undoubtedly capable of anything, and Colonel Kędzior was most likely right in writing about the savage torture that preceded the death of General Zagórski.
The destiny of Zagórski was tragic and the heroes of the case awaited fabulous careers. Beck, Wenda, Wieniawa promotions and profits will flow in the coming weeks after the general's disappearance. Alexander Prystor will become Minister, Prime Minister, Marshal of the Senate. Major Sigismund Wenda will be promoted to Colonel, Deputy talker of the Sejm and Chief of Staff of the National Unity Camp. On the day of the war, in September 1939, it will be 1 of the most crucial people in the state. This unusual man, after the German attack on Poland, on 3 September 1939, had the thought of creating a coalition government of national unity in the form of the State Defence Council from the time of the war with Bolsheviks. He told that the ruling absolutely no one's coming triumph would share.
Joseph Beck, as we know, will become Deputy Prime Minister, then Minister of abroad Affairs, or actually actual creator of Polish abroad policy, until September 1939. Beck's pet Lieutenant Wakre will be a trusted adjutant in the vicinity of the Marshal of the Blade, among his closest associates will besides be doing a career alongside Wendy Edmund Galinat.
The function of the next marshal remains unclear, and at the time of the disappearance of General Zagórski the army inspector in Vilnius, General Edward Śmigłego-Rydz. Investigative arrest where the generals were staying after the May bombing was on his operating territory, he formally requested approval to see Zagórski imprisoned, but the papers do not indicate that specified a imagination always occurred.
Blade-Rydz knew precisely who was behind the assassination of the general, as noted by Kordian Overseas: “The hebrew is convinced that he was active in the assassination of Zagórski and Wend, and Beck.” It is besides impossible to announcement that the protagonists of this communicative active in the abduction and execution of General Zagórski, specified as Wenda or Galinat, will stay in the immediate vicinity of Marshal Smigler for years and Wakre will become his individual adjutant. In the first days of September 1939, after the Nazi German attack on Poland, Kostek-Biernacki will become even a minister. Unfortunately, I cannot indicate whether there was anything more to this than the belief that these people were trustworthy due to the fact that they were ready for their leader truly for everything.
General Zagórski's body was never found. Nobody officially confessed to the crime. No court has formally declared anyone's cause, there's no order on paper, and there most likely never was 1 that ordered the murder. All these circumstances do not prove that the crime was not committed. They are equal in the magnitude of the crimes committed even during planet War II. So don't let anyone see them.
he dares to invoke as an argument to cast a curtain of silence on this matter. Neither of these circumstances makes it possible to conduct historical investigation and to search answers to any questions only a historian can and should ask.
Why was General Vladimir Ostoj-Zagórski murdered? Did the perpetrators mean a hated man or more dangerous information he was aware of? Was this expected to be a warning: this is how our Chief's enemies end up? no of these circumstances are to be underestimated. The past of Austrian intelligence archives after the large War is simply a wonderful part of work that should be created as shortly as possible. In the territory of the Second Republic, as early as the first hours of independence, a feverish conflict for their acquisition began. Materials concerning Józef Piłsudski were partially in his hands, the remaining destroyed. However, the Marshal knew that there was no warrant that there was no 1 left, and abruptly he would not see the light of day. This was, for example, erstwhile the rumor was spread that a fascic had disappeared from the archive of Ludwik Morawski with materials to negociate with Piłsudski of the amount of money for the device of the uprising. This material is said to have been hidden by Morawski, seemingly trying to defend himself for a rainy day.
It is apparent that the General's execution could only have taken place with the approval and approval of Józef Piłsudski, as well as the fact that he did much to guarantee that the perpetrators did not face responsibility. On the contrary, they had to be promoted quickly. erstwhile writing about this matter, we must remember that the conflict between General Zagórski and Marshal Piłsudski had a large emotional intensity, and the nature of the increasing interpersonal relation eludes a factual assessment. Zagórski held a superior position towards Piłsudski in the first period of this relationship, which he could never accept.
Joseph Piłsudski, which even his uncritical apologists must admit, was a man of immense emotional intensity. This was more and more evident with increasing loneliness, deteriorating health, years spent in a way that could destruct even the strongest organism. He frequently spoke words that he might not have said in another situation. possibly specified words were utilized by individual in his surroundings (Wenda? Beck?) as carte blanche to handle the matter. The case with General Zagórski must have cost him a lot, as was seen in his behaviour at the Legionary Assembly in Kalisz. A fewer months
Later, the marshal suffered a stroke, which he never returned to his earlier disposal, besides mental. As Marshal Alexander Piłsudsk's wife noted: “The husband admitted that he frequently heard steps in the corridor outside the cabinet door, although no 1 was there.” According to Marek Kamiński, the author of the book “The Last Mystery of Marshal Piłsudski”, he suffered from tertiary syphilis in the form of a progressive shock, which yet led to his death. This illness causes personality disintegration and provides the full basis for the judicial declaration of insanity of the patient, depriving him, among others, of his ability to self-esteem and critical authoreflexion.
And Zagórski? He was not fit for any dealing with the marshal's surroundings. It was a kind of knight with a zero-one mentality. We can believe that he preferred to be dead than to be humiliated. Twenty-first January 1927, after 8 months in Vilnius prison, Zagórski smuggled out of censorship a letter in which he wrote: “I’m not doing anything about it, and I don’t know how long sitting won’t take distant my sense of dignity and my own strength and value. [...] they will yet gotta release, and since I am younger and from General [Rozadowski – A.C.], and besides from Mr. Piłsudski, so nothing will prevent me from further development. Who knows, possibly even help?’
He remained himself like 9 years earlier erstwhile he expected the death punishment in an Austrian prison. specified a man could not be broken, anyone could be killed.”
