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Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Polish military officer
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role in World War II
- In World War II: The campaign in Poland, 1939
…the commander in chief, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły. The Poles’ forward concentration in general forfeited their chance of fighting a series of delaying actions, since their foot-marching army was unable to retreat to their defensive positions in the rear or to man them before being overrun by the invader’s mechanized columns.
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