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Narcyz Wiatr (nom-de-guerre "Zawoja" and "Władysław Brzoza"; 19 September 1907 – 21 April 1945) was a Polish political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party (SL), a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison and during World War II a leader of Peasants' Battalions (BCh) an anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of colonel,.
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Narcyz Wiatr (nom-de-guerre "Zawoja" and "Władysław Brzoza"; 19 September 1907 – 21 April 1945) was a Polish political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party (SL), a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison and during World War II a leader of Peasants' Battalions (BCh) an anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of colonel,.
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Biography Wiatr was born on 19 September 1907 in Stróże. Before the war Wiatr studied Law and Economics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he became active in youth organizations associated with the Ludowcy (agrarian) movement. Between 1937 and 1939 he was the chief of the SL in Nowy Sącz. He helped to organize a farmer's strike in the Beskidy region, for which he was arrested and imprisoned at Bereza Kartuska for six weeks, along with other political activists. He was one of the commanders of the organization "Chłostra" (an acronym of Chłopska Straż – Peasants' Guard). From 1941 until 1945 he was the commander of the VI Region of the BCh in Małopolska and Silesia, and was active in the organization SL-Roch (the wartime successor of People's Party). After the merger between BCh and the Polish Home Army (AK) (within which, BCh retained its own officers and command structure) he was the second in command of the Kraków Region of the AK. After the formation of the communist Polish Committee of National Liberation "Lublin Committee" and the subsequent political takeover of Poland by the communists, Wiatr issued an order to members of his organization (order No. 186) in…