X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Tatra Confederation


Tatra Confederation

He committed suicide on February 21, 1947, when his remote hideaway at Ostrowsko village was ambushed by the Internal Security Corps special-purpose unit (Korpus Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, KBW) tipped off by an informant.

The main geographical area of its activity was the city of Nowy Targ itself and the village of Waksmund in the same county.

Waksmund

During the Second World War, on June 29th, 1943 the village was the site of one of the worst massacres carried out by the Nazi occupiers in the Podhale region, after the break-up of the Tatra Confederation revealed that many members of the resistance organization were from this village.


Edward Gött-Getyński

In mid 1941 Getyński organized the first combat unit of the Tatra Confederation called Mountain Division (Dywizja Górska) in Podhale, under the leadership of Augustyn Suski from the Confederation.


see also

Augustyn Suski

In January 1942 the Tatra Confederation was infiltrated by its own founders' former acquaintance and the Gestapo agent SS-Oberscharführer Heinz Wegner (a.k.a. Stanisław Wegner-Romanowski).