11 Facts About Adolf Pilch

Adolf Pilch was a Polish resistance fighter during World War II.

Adolf Pilch became part of the Polish special forces trained in the United Kingdom, and was parachuted into occupied Poland on 17 February 1943.

Adolf Pilch attended the school for Polish officer cadets, and was assigned to the 26th Infantry Division.

Adolf Pilch was not mobilized during the German invasion of Poland; he would escape the country through Hungary and Yugoslavia and join the recreated Polish Army in France.

Adolf Pilch fought in the Battle of France, and then managed to join the Polish Army in the United Kingdom.

Adolf Pilch was assigned to Polish special forces, the cichociemni unit, which was a Polish division of the Special Operations Executive.

In December 1943 Pilch reorganized the Polish partisans in the Nowogrodek area.

Adolf Pilch made a controversial decision to accept a ceasefire with the Germans, and concentrated solely on engaging the Soviet partisans.

At that time, Adolf Pilch negotiated an agreement with the command of the Armia Krajowa, which accepted him back into its ranks in return for the end of the ceasefire between Adolf Pilch forces and the Germans.

Adolf Pilch continued fighting in the ranks of the AK against the Germans, primarily in the Kampinos forest area, supporting the Warsaw Uprising.

Adolf Pilch wrote memoirs of his life as a partisan, Partyzanci trzech puszcz.