W strukturach (anty)komunistycznych – informatorzy Oddziału „Tarzana”
Journal Title: Biografistyka Pedagogiczna - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Since 1944 the security apparatus has been the basic tool of repression in the communist Poland. Subject to the persecution were mainly soldiers belonging to the structures of the independence underground. In the northern part of the fork of the Vistula and the San rivers Forest Branch of Tadeusz Gajda `Tarzan` served a unique role in the Rzeszow District of the National Military Union in the fight with the process of strengthening the communists’ power. The activities of the Branch ‘Tarzan’ and its soldiers were the merit of not only of the commanding skills, but also owning the net of the informants, who worked in the structures of the Offi ce of Public Security and Citizen’s Militia, decided to help the independence underground. Biographies of people presented in the article, found on the border of the two opposing ideas, endangering in the adopted service the most important value that is life.
Authors and Affiliations
Katarzyna Sabat
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