Stanisław Brochwicz (1910 – March 1941) was a Polish journalist, far-right activist,

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collaborator, Gestapo and National Radical Organization member. He was assassinated by a squad of the

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Biography

Before World War II, Brochwicz was a German agent. He was arrested by Polish counterintelligence and sentenced to death, but freed by Germans during the

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in 1939 before his sentence was carried out. During the war, Brochwicz was a National Radical Organization member (1939–1940). In the Polish press, he wrote articles praising Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. In 1941, Brochwicz wrote ''Heroes or traitors? Memories of a political prisoner'', in which he expressed his support for the Nazis. Brochwicz was convicted of collaboration on 17 February 1941 by the verdict of the Polish

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, with a sentence of death. He was executed by an underground assassination squad, which stabbed him to death in March of that year.

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