Major Jan Henryk Żychoń and “Sosnowski’s Affair” – Second Channel of Inspiration? Cover Image

Mjr Jan Henryk Żychoń a „afera Sosnowskiego” – drugi kanał inspiracji?
Major Jan Henryk Żychoń and “Sosnowski’s Affair” – Second Channel of Inspiration?

Author(s): Robert Majzner
Subject(s): History, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Military Intelligence; Second Polish Republic; Polish Army; Second Department of Polish General Staff; Third Reich; Abwehra;inspiration and truth;

Summary/Abstract: In 1939, on the wave of the process of Major Jerzy Sosnowski accused of spying for Germany, the head of the Section “East” of the Second Department of Polish General Staff, Captain Jerzy Niezbrzycki suggested that also the head of the Post No. 3 of the Polish Military Intelligence at Bydgoszcz, Major Jan Żychoń, was at service of the German intelligence, and his post was the so-called “second channel of inspiration” operated by the German military intelligence for the Polish intelligence.

  • Issue Year: 51/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-137
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish