{"id":217,"date":"2013-12-19T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2023-10-24T22:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:01:57","slug":"sosabowski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/en\/historie\/sosabowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanislaw Sosabowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gen-sosabowski.jpg\" alt=\"Generaal-majoor Sosabowski\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gen-sosabowski.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gen-sosabowski-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Major General Stanis\u0142aw F. Sosabowski, who was born in Stanis\u0142aw\u00f3w on 8 May 1892, was the first commander of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade. In 1941, when he took command of this unit, he had already had a long military career.<br \/>\nAfter serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, he joined the Polish army after Poland had regained its independence in 1918. After a successful career, during which he wrote a number of military manuals among other things, he was, in January 1939, appointed in his rank as colonel to the commander of the prestigious 21st \u201cChildren of Warsaw\u201d Infantry regiment.<br \/>\nWhen the Germans invaded Poland in September of that year, the regiment, under his command, was involved in the defence of the country\u2019s capital city. Sosabowski was awarded the highest Polish honour for bravery for his contribution to the battle.<br \/>\nHe escaped from captivity as a POW and, after a long detour, he arrived in France.<\/p>\n<p>There, he witnessed the German invasion in May and June 1940 as the Deputy Commander of the 4th Polish Division.<br \/>\nAfter the battle in France had been lost by the allies, Sosabowski and a large number of his countrymen left for Great Britain.<br \/>\nIt was there that he began building \u2018his\u2019 parachute brigade in 1941.<br \/>\nSosabowski revealed himself to be a determined and self-willed commander, who ruffled his superiors\u2019 feathers on several occasions. His men were devoted to him due to the fact that he showed himself to be an inspiring, caring and, at the same time, demanding leader. During the run up to Operation Market Garden, he was irritated by the optimism with which British commanders viewed the operation: he warned that the Germans would not be beaten easily.<\/p>\n<p>During his brigade\u2019s deployment at Driel in September 1944, he showed himself to be a brave and skilful leader when doing everything possible to succeed in his assignment of reinforcing British airborne troops at Oosterbeek. Several times he had heated exchanges with his British superiors, who, to put it mildly, showed him little courtesy.<br \/>\nAfter Operation Market Garden, Sosabowski was, at the insistence of the British general F.A.M. Browning, relieved of the command of his brigade by the Polish governmentin-exile after relations had reached breaking point. After the war, it was impossible for Sosabowski to return to the newly communist Poland. He lived in exile in Great Britain where he made his living as a retailer and factory worker. In those years, he regularly returned to the Netherlands to attend commemmorations of the Battle of Arnhem.<br \/>\nHe was, for example, a guest in Driel in 1961 where he attended the unveiling of the monument in honour of the Polish parachute brigade entitled \u201cSurge Polnia\u201d (\u201cPoland will rise again\u201d). Sosabowski died in 1967 due to a heart condition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major General Stanis\u0142aw F. Sosabowski, who was born in Stanis\u0142aw\u00f3w on 8 May 1892, was the first commander of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade. 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