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Eugeniusz Niedzielin (1916–1973), Colonel, Head of the Investigation Section of District Board of Information No. 8 in Gdynia, a Torturer of the „Commanders’ Conspiracy”
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(12) (2014), pages: 317-328
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
The Main Directorate of Information (MDI) of the Polish Army, known also as Military Information, was created on 14 May 1943 along with the Tadeusz Kościuszko 1st Infantry Division of the Polish Army. It was created and controlled by the Soviet SMERSH military counterintelligence organisation. In spite of fragmentary information about the MDI, historians are able to present the history of this sinister organisation. However, little is known about the people who worked there. This article presents one of the most prominent officers of Military Information, Eugeniusz Niedzielin. He was born 21 August 1916 in Kolonia Izaaka in the Białystok province, to the family of a Communist apparatchik, Włodzimierz (in the years 1929–1938 a member of the Polish Communist Party, then of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) from 1945) and Waleria née Szymborska. Eugeniusz Niedzielin worked in various bodies of Military Information for eight years. During this time, he was promoted to Major (he ended his service at the rank of colonel), was given the nickname „Executioner of the Nation”, and gained a reputation as being one of the most brutal of investigators. He was one of a number of Military Information officers who never made responsible for their crimes.
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