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Władysław Sikorski

Polish military and political leader (1881–1941)

Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (Polish pronunciation:[vwaˈdɨswafɕiˈkɔrskʲi]^ⓘ; 20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader.

Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of Polish independence. He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during World War I, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. In the latter war, he played a prominent role in the decisive 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

In the early years of the Second Polish Republic, Sikorski held government posts including prime minister (1922–1923) and minister of military affairs (1923–1924). Following Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup and the installation of the Sanation government, he fell out of favor with the new régime.

During World War II, Sikorski became prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, and a vigorous advocate of the

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When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Sikorski held no military post and remained side-lined throughout the entire September campaign. He fled Poland and arrived in France via Romania, where he was given the task of forming the Polish Army in France, the predecessor of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. On September 30, 1939 a new Polish cabinet was established in Paris and Sikorski was appointed Prime Minister by the new President of the Republic of Poland in exile, Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. The positive relationship between Sikorski and France weighed heavily in this decision.

On November 7, 1939, immediately after the resignation of Marshall Edward Rydz-Smigly, Sikorski was appointed Supreme Commander and Inspector General (Generalny Inspektor Sil Zbrojnych) of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. Apart from that, he also held the office of the Polish Minister of Military Affairs. In this way Sikorski acquired complete control of the Polish Armed Forces in wartime.

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Władysław Sikorski's death controversy

Conspiracy theories

Władysław Sikorski's death controversy revolves around the death of the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in the 1943 B-24 crash in Gibraltar. Sikorski's Liberator II crashed off Gibraltar almost immediately after takeoff, with the plane's pilot being the only survivor. The catastrophe, while officially classified as an accident, has led to several conspiracy theories that persist to this day, and often propose that the crash was an assassination, which has variously been blamed as a German, Soviet, British and even Polish conspiracy. The incident is still described by some historians as mysterious and was investigated by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance. They concluded that the injuries sustained were consistent with a plane crash and that there was not enough evidence to support or reject the theory that the plane was deliberately sabotaged.

Air crash

Main article: 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash

In late May 1943