Lech Bądkowski (24 January 1920 in Toruń, Poland – 24 February 1984 in Gdańsk) was a Polish writer, journalist, publicist and Kashubian-Pomeranian activist, a promoter of regional history and culture, co-founder and leader of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, and opponent of the Communist rules in postwar Poland. Lech Bądkowski was born on 24 January 1920 in Toruń, Poland as Leszek, Mieczysław Zygmunt Buntkowski, He attended an elemenrtary school there as well as an all male high school. In 1938 he got admitted to a law faculty at the Józef Piłsudski University in Warsaw, but after seven days into the academic year he had been drafted into the polish army. During his service, he completed a junior officer course. When the Second World War broke out on 1 September 1939 he participated as a platoon commander in a battle of the Bzura river, which he later described in his book "Soldiers from the Bzura River". In 1940, he managed to escape to France where he joined the newly formed polish army, and in a rank of an Aspirant he fought in Norwegian and French campaigns, where he showed outstanding courage for what he was awarded in 1941, by Gen. Władysław Sikorski, the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari War medal, the highest Polish military honor. After the evacuation from France he completed a sabotage and skydiving course in Scotland but had never been dropped off behind enemy lines in the occupied Poland. He was discharged from the army as a second lieutenant. While stationed in England he learned English, continued his general education as well as participated in the activities of the Pomeranian Union which he created. In that time period he completed a booklet "The Pomeranian Political Thought" (1945). More information...
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