CIVIL AND MILITARY EDUCATION IN POLISH MIDDLE EAST FORCES AND POLISH 2ND CORPS
Journal Title: Studia Historiae Scientiarum - Year 2010, Vol 10, Issue
Abstract
The outbreak of 2nd World War has interrupted the education of numerous young Poles who joined the Polish Armed Forces. Moreover, many Polish officers were imprisoned or murdered by our enemies. Therefore, apart from military training, one of fundamentalm aims of the Command of the Polish Armed Forces abroad was to organize the civil and military schools for their soldiers. They were formed already in Soviet Union and a real educational system was formed in Middle East, mainly in Palestine where, apart from numerous general and professional schools for cadets – saved young girls and boys of prerecruiting age, some maturity courses for soldiers were organized. The activity of these courses, transformed later into normal civil and professional schools, was continued after the end of war first in Italy, and afterwards in Great Britain. In Italy the former schools were formed predominantly in Puglia (Alessano, Matino, Lecce, Casarano) and in Marche (Amandola, Sarnano, Fermo, Porto San Giorgio, Teramo). On the other side, the center of military education in Italy was Matera (Basilicata) where the majority of cadet-officer schools were installed. In this paper the available data on the activity of these schools are presented. They are based predominantly on author’s personal experience and documents, but also on several rather rare publications on this subject. The effect of this educational system, formed by the Command of Polish 2nd Corps, was significant. More than 5400 soldiers could accomplish their secondary education and 900 of them have passed the maturity examinations. Consequently, after the war they could initiate the university studies.
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Wojciech NARĘBSKI
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