Władysław Kozaczuk

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Władysław Kozaczuk (Babiki, December 23, 1923 – September 26, 2003, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish Army colonel and military historian.

Contents 1 Works 2 Life 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Works

Kozaczuk published a dozen books, several of them in multiple editions. They dealt chiefly with World War II, Nazi Germany and intelligence. Kozaczuk is perhaps best known outside Poland for the English-language book, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek, Frederick, MD, University Publications of America, 1984. The book has been described as "the Bible" on the Polish aspects of the history of Enigma-cipher decryption.

[edit] Life

Born in a village near Sokółka, Kozaczuk joined the army during World War II at Białystok in 1944. In 1945 he became a second lieutenant in the Polish Army, and spent the first 5 years of his service commanding operational units of the Internal Security Corps, fighting the Polish underground and then the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 1950 he was transferred to the Internal Security Corps Staff in Warsaw.

In 1954–1955, following the Korean War, Kozaczuk carried out armistice-related duties in Korea.

In 1955–1958 he served in the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych).

In 1957–1958 he saw duty with the International Control Commission in Vietnam.

He served in Polish military counter-intelligence (Polish: Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna), 1958–1969, when he asked to be transferred to the Military Historical Institute (Polish: Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny).

Kozaczuk had earned a degree in Polish philology in 1956 at Warsaw University. In 1978 he received a doctorate in history at Poland's Military Political Academy (Wojskowa Akademia Polityczna).

Aside from his history books and articles, he also published some poems.

Kozaczuk was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

[edit] See also

• Enigma machine

[edit] References

• Czesław Szafran, "Płk dr Władysław Kozaczuk" ("Col. Dr. Władysław Kozaczuk"), Przegląd Historyczno-Wojskowy (Military History Review), no. 201, Warsaw, 2004.