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The article concerns the fate of the inhabitants of the Grudziądz poviat, who during the World War II, engaged in the fight for the free and independent Republic of Poland, gave their lives during the service in the Polish II Corps. In most cases, they found themselves in the Polish army after leaving the German army (desertion, Allied captivity), to the joining to which they had been forced as part of the policy of the German occupant. The fallen inhabitants of the Grudziądz poviat were largely buried on the Italian Peninsula, at Polish military cemeteries, making up the the battle trail of the Polish II Corps.