Stanisław Zarakowski
Stanisław Zarakowski | |
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Colonel Stanisław Zarakowski | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 November 1907 Svolna, the Vicebsk government, Dryssa county Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 April 1998 (aged 90) Warsaw, Poland |
| Citizenship | Polish |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Polish People's Army |
| Branch/service | Chief Military Prosecutor Office |
| Rank | Brigadier general (Revoked) Private |
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General Stanisław Zarakowski (7 November 1907 – 11 April 1998) was a chief military prosecutor in the People's Republic of Poland who was famous for his role in several trials of Polish Underground State officers which resulted in many death sentences.
Zarakowski was born to a local landowner in Svolna village (Belarusian: Свольна) in Vilna Governorate (Russian Empire, present-day Belarus). His family's estate was nationalized during the Bolshevik revolution when he was ten years old. They moved to Vilnius, where Zarakowski graduated from the law faculty of the Wilno University (then in the Second Polish Republic). During World War II he fled to the Soviet Union and arrived back in war-torn Poland with the Soviet-sponsored Polish People's Army. A hardline Stalinist, Zarakowski was assigned a job with the Chief Military Prosecutor Office and quickly rose to become the Chief Military Prosecutor of the People's Republic of Poland.