Andrzej Świetlicki
Born(1915-04-19)19 April 1915
Congress Poland
Died21 June 1940(1940-06-21) (aged 25)
Kampinos Forest, Masovian Voivodeship, German-occupied Poland
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
OccupationFounding member of the National Radical Organization

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 (Narodowa Organizacja Radykalna).[1] After a few months of collaboration with the Germans (Abwehr and Gestapo), and the takeover of power by the civil administration of the General Government, 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.[1][2]

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.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Kunicki, Mikołaj Stanisław (2012-07-04). Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki. Ohio University Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9780821444207.
  2. ↑ Piasecki, Waldemar (2017-07-31). Jan Karski. Jedno życie. Tom II. Inferno (in Polish). Insignis. ISBN 9788365743381.
  3. ↑ Antoni Dudek; Grzegorz Pytel (1990). Bolesław Piasecki – próba biografii politycznej. Londyn. p. 109.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ Podlewski, Stanisław (1971). Przemarsz through hell. pp. 134–141.
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