Andrzej Świetlicki (19 April 1915 – 21 June 1940) was a Polish politician, a member of the far-right
National Radical Camp Falanga. After the 1939
German invasion of Poland, in October 1939 he formed the collaborationist
National Radical Organization National Radical Organization ( pl, Narodowa Organizacja Radykalna) was a Polish collaborationist pro-Nazi organization, founded following the 1939 German invasion of Poland by Andrzej Świetlicki and Stanisław Trzeciak.
In March 1940, NOR co-or ...
(''Narodowa Organizacja Radykalna'').
After a few months of collaboration with the Germans (
Abwehr
The ''Abwehr'' (German for ''resistance'' or ''defence'', but the word usually means ''counterintelligence'' in a military context; ) was the German military-intelligence service for the ''Reichswehr'' and the ''Wehrmacht'' from 1920 to 1944. A ...
and
Gestapo), and the takeover of power by the civil administration of the
General Government
The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...
, Hitler issued a ban on cooperation with political organizations in Poland. The NOR was deprived of protection and cooperation from the Nazis. In May 1940, Świetlicki was arrested and imprisoned in
Pawiak. On 21 June 1940, he was executed in the
Palmiry massacre.
Two other NOR activists, Wojciech Kwasieborski and Tadeusz Lipkowski, were executed with Świetlicki. Consequently, the NOR was dissolved in June 1940.
Stanisław Trzeciak, the other founding member of the NOR, was executed by the Germans in 1944.
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