Narcyz Wiatr

Who was Narcyz Wiatr?

Narcyz Wiatr was a Polish political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party, a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison and during World War II a leader of Peasants' Battalions a anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of Colonel,.

Before the war Wiatr studied Law and Economics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he became active in youth organizations associated with the Ludowcy movement. Between 1937 and 1939 he was the chief of the SL in Nowy Sącz. He helped to organize a farmer's strike in the Beskidy region, for which he was arrested and imprisoned at Bereza Kartuska for six weeks, along with other political activists.

He was one of the commanders of the organization "Chłostra".

From 1941 until 1945 he was the commander of the VI Region of the BCh in Małopolska and Silesia, and was active in the organization SL-Roch. After the merger between BCh and the Polish Home Army he was the second in command of the Kraków Region of the AK.