As a minister responsible for the police and security services, he was afforded full access to the former communist documentary archives including records of communist intelligence and secret service agents. On May 28, 1992 Polish Parliament passed law requiring the minister of Internal Affairs to provide Sejm with the list of then senators, representatives, ministers, voivodes, judges and prosecutors who had been secret communist agents between 1945-1990 ( the military secret agents were excluded ).

In 1945 Polish and Soviet troops seized the town and it was subsequently attached to Poland, while the remaining German population which had not fled the advancing Red Army was expelled.

Soviet authorities regarded service for the pre-war Polish state as a " crime against revolution " and " counter-revolutionary activity ", and subsequently started arresting large numbers of Polish citizens.

The Brauweiler Chronicle indicated that soon after the escape of her husband, Richeza and her children fled to Germany with the Polish royal crown and regalia, which were given to Emperor Conrad II and she subsequently played an important role in mediating a peace settlement between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire.

The Order also acknowledged the rights of the Polish Crown for Prussia's western half, subsequently known as Polish or Royal Prussia.

Upon his death, the line of the Silesian Piasts fragmented into numerous Dukes of Silesia, who ( except for Henry's grandson Henry IV Probus ) were no longer able to prevail as Polish High Dukes and subsequently came under the influence of the neighbouring Kingdom of Bohemia.

According to a British witness, a retreating Polish artillery unit was shot at by Germans from within a house ; the Poles returned fire and were subsequently shot at from a Jesuit church.

During WWII Pinewood was requisitioned and subsequently the Crown Film Unit, Army Film and Photographic Unit, RAF Film Unit and Polish Air Force Film Unit were based there.

One of his first operations was the AB Action, aimed at destroying Polish culture, and in which more than 30, 000 Poles ( intellectuals and the upper classes ) were arrested and 7, 000 were subsequently massacred.

The German population who had not fled during the war were subsequently expelled and forced westward into post-war Germany and replaced with Poles, many of whom had been expelled themselves from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union.

After World War II it was again annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Lithuanian SSR in the Soviet Union ; subsequently many of the city's and area's ethnic Polish inhabitants left for the recovered Territories of the People's Republic of Poland.

Later, with the 1466 Second Peace of Thorn it became part of Polish Royal Prussia and was then subsequently annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia during the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

In March 1945, at Bonn University, a Polish laboratory technician found pieces of the Osenberg List stuffed in a toilet ; the list subsequently reached MI6, who transmitted it to US Intelligence.

Mordechai Anielewicz ( historical ): Anielewicz, together with other Polish Jews, is liberated from Nazi occupation by the Race, who subsequently capture and shut down Auschwitz.

His tutors were the learned János Vitéz, bishop of Nagyvárad ( now: Oradea ), whom he subsequently raised to the primacy, and the Polish humanist Gregory of Sanok.

Before World War II many Polish Jews became followers of Zionism and subsequently emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine.

The thirteenth of US President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points included the statement " An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea ..." Article 87 of the Versailles Treaty stipulated that " The boundaries of Poland not laid down in the present Treaty will be subsequently determined by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

The Soviet authorities regarded service for the pre-war Polish state as a " crime against revolution " and " counter-revolutionary activity ", and subsequently started arresting large numbers of Polish intelligentsia, politicians, civil servants and scientists, but also ordinary people suspected of posing a threat to the Soviet rule.

Soviet authorities regarded service for the pre-war Polish state as a " crime against revolution " and " counter-revolutionary activity ", and subsequently started arresting large numbers of Polish citizens.

Polish Constitutional Court however, in September 2008, decided that the regulations were unconstitutional and dismissed them.

According to Wojciech Wrzesiński ( 1963 ), the Polish organisations in Masuria had decided to lower their activity in order to escape acts of terror performed against Polish minority activists and organisations by Nazi activists.

Stalin had decided in August that he was going to liquidate the Polish state, and a German – Soviet meeting in September addressed the future structure of the " Polish region ".

The constitution's acceptance, and the possible long-term consequences it may have had, is arguably the reason for which the powers of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Prussia then decided to partition the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; thus putting an end to over 300 years of Polish parliamentary continuity.

When he found out about the outbreak of war in Europe, he decided to wait in Buenos Aires until the war was over, although he reported to the Polish legation in 1941 but was considered unfit for military duties.

When on August 8, 1919, the Polish Army captured Minsk, Adamowicz decided to work with them.

The partitioning powers, seeing the increasing unrest in the remaining Commonwealth, decided to solve the problem by erasing any independent Polish state from the map.

In 1181 the dukes of Pomerania decided to accept the Holy Roman emperor as their liege lord instead of the Polish king.

The campaign was decided at the battle of the Wda River, where the Polish knights suffered a defeat despite the assistance of Bohemian troops.

In 1941, the German leadership decided that in ten to 20 years, the Polish territories under German occupation were to be cleared entirely of ethnic Poles and resettled by German-speaking colonists from Bukovina, Eastern Galicia and Volhynia.

The conference decided to reinforce Polish national consciousness in the region.

Additionally, Major General Williams — commander of IX Troop Carrier Command — decided that it would only be possible for one air lift per day, meaning it would take three days to deliver the entire Division and Polish Brigade to the area.

However, on January 26, 1931, I. Khalepsky ( Head of the Department of Mechanisation and Motorisation of the RKKA ) wrote a letter to S. Ginzburg with information obtained via the intelligence service that the Polish government had decided to purchase Vickers 6-Ton light infantry tanks as well as Christie M1931 cavalry tanks and to mass produce them with the assistance of both the British and French.

Even the popular Polish adventure of Charles X of Sweden was strenuously opposed by Bonde, though when once it was decided upon he materially assisted the king to find the means for carrying it on.

Spring 1945 saw the formation of transports of Polish repatriates who ( voluntarily or by coercion ) had decided to leave.

Colonel Mastalerz decided to take the enemy by surprise and immediately ordered a cavalry charge, a tactic the Polish cavalry rarely used as their main weapon.

Earlier that week, he had received complaints about the lyrics of the song which contains a line that could be interpreted as degrading to Polish people, but the Swedish Chancellor of Justice decided not to try this as a violation of the hate speech act.

When Tzuke embarked on her singing career, she decided to reclaim the family's Polish name as her stage name.

Similarly, the delegates decided to incorporate the Prussian Province of Posen, against the wishes of the Polish population.

When he accompanied Sikorski on a mission to Mexico in 1941 seeking a home for 4, 000 Polish refugees, the positive reception moved Szeryng so deeply that he decided to become a Mexican naturalized citizen, and did so in 1946.

Further, the Russian-supported Polish king, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was seen as both weak and too independent-minded ; eventually the Russian court decided that the usefulness of Poland as a protectorate had diminished.

In response to that, and particularly the arrest and exile of several vocal opponents by the Russian troops, namely bishop of Kiev Józef Andrzej Załuski, bishop of Cracow Kajetan Sołtyk, and hetman Wacław Rzewuski with his son Seweryn, Polish magnates Adam Krasiński, Bishop of Kamenets, Kazimierz Pułaski and Michał Krasiński and their allies decided to form a confederatio-a legal military association opposing the government.

By the time the Polish command decided to withdraw to the line of the Vistula, it was too late.