Remarks on Leading out some of the Polish Soldiers from a Trap in Brittany in 1940

Abstract

Having returned to France after a military Mission in Poland conducted in 1939, the French general of division Louis Faury received in a function in a Polish-French Mission, under the command of General Victor Denain, of a chief of a military training at the largest training facility of the Polish Armed Forces in France, in a Breton Coëtquidan. In accordance with the French-Polish military and political agreement, and on demand of the French operational command, the Polish troops were to partake in the fighting alongside the French forces. Rescuing the Polish soldiers who were stationed at the territories of Brittany during a difficult time when the French resistance was breaking under the intrusion of the German forces, General Faury, in a situation of a higher necessity and at his own initiative, accepted a command over the Polish non-linear troops on the 14th of June 1940,, leading them out towards the Loire and the Atlantic harbours from the 18th of June. The French General of the division Louis Faury, an honest and undeterred friend of Poland and the Polish people, an officer endowed with many virtues, in this way saved from the captivity and persecution almost all the Polish soldiers from the area of Brittany under his command, who were still willing to fight against the Germans. The fate of the remaining Polish soldiers was sad. Some of the incompetent Polish officers, responsible in fact for an inept evacuation of the Polish forces from France in 1940, pushed all the blame on the General of the division, Louis Faury.