Dowódca Referatu II Armii Krajowej z Gestapo - Eugeniusz Adamczyk „Wiktor”

• Authors: Karolina Maciaszek

Title variants

EN

The head of the Home Army’s 2nd Department in Gestapo - Eugeniusz Adamczyk, pseudonym “Wiktor”

Abstracts

EN

Eugeniusz Adamczyk, an activist of the Home Army (AK), pseudonym “Wiktor,” was undoubtedly a hero of the Polish counterintelligence war meted out against Gestapo. He was in possession of uncommon skills that made him tailored for this kind of work. Born three years prior to the First World War in the village of Irządze, when he sought his first job, he wound up joining the police. At the moment of the outbreak of the Second World War, he had been on duty in the Tarnopol voivodeship. Having reached the General Government, he started to take active part in the operations of the Armed Independence Underground. Instantly after having been sworn in as a member of ZWZ (Union of Armed Struggle), following the order from the union’s leadership, he joined the ranks of Gestapo, the Nazi-Germany secret police. While stationed at a Gestapo precinct in Jędrzejów, he was able to aid in various ways those maltreated, tortured and persecuted by Hitlerites, those threatened to be arrested, resettled, or sent to the Reich as “labourers.” In the eyes of Poles oblivious to his mission, he was often considered a traitor. In recognition of his services, the Home Army leadership appointed him as a head of its 2nd Department of Intelligence and Counterintelligence in the Jędrzejów Precinct. Yet, a fate filled with hardships awaited him after the war. Twice he was arrested in the 1940s and he had to endure the worst kind of tortures inflicted upon him by the (communist) Security Service. Not until the amnesty of the year 1956 was he allowed to lead relatively normal life. He then became professionally involved at the Silesian University of Technology (Politechnika Śląska). However, he was eventually arrested again for an attempt to publish his memoirs detailing the former work for the Home Army, and for sending death sentences to prominent communist leaders.

PL

Celem artykułu jest przybliżenie postaci Eugeniusza Adamczyka, niedocenionego bohatera podziemia niepodległościowego z czasów II wojny światowej. Pełniąc w Armii Krajowej ważną funkcję dowódcy wywiadu i kontrwywiadu Obwodu Jędrzejów, a następnie szefa wywiadu Okręgu Radomsko-Kieleckiego, przeniknął jednocześnie do struktur Gestapo. Pracując dla kryminalnej policji Kripo, wykorzystywał swoją pozycję i wiedzę m.in. do ratowania Polaków przed aresztowaniami przez Niemców, ułatwiał odbijanie więźniów, pomógł zorganizować udany zamach na życie Helmuta Kappa, zastępcy dowódcy Gestapo w Jędrzejowie.

Keywords

PL

Eugeniusz Adamczyk; Armia Krajowa; kontrwywiad; II wojna światowa

EN

Eugeniusz Adamczyk; the Home Army; counterintelligence; the Second World War

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Wieki Stare i Nowe
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 117-133

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Karolina Maciaszek

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/WSN.2020.20.07

Biblioteka Nauki

2058063