How to Pronounce Stanisław Maczek
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Mar 31, 1892 Died on 11 Dec 1994 (aged 102)
Polish military officer of World War I and World War II
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About Stanisaw Maczek
- General Stanislaw Maczek ([sta'?iswav 'mat???k]; 31 March 1892 – 11 December 1994) was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destruction of 14 German Wehrmacht and SS divisions.
- A veteran of World War I, the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish–Soviet Wars, Maczek was the commander of Poland's only major armoured formation during the September 1939 campaign, and later commanded a Polish armoured formation in France in 1940.
- He was the commander of the famous 1st Polish Armoured Division, and later of the I Polish Army Corps under Allied Command in 1942–45.
