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General Leopold Okulicki (pronounce: Okulitski) (November 12, 1898 – December 24, 1946), was a Polish military leader.

Okulicki was born in Bratucice, a village near Bochnia in the Cracow region. As a young boy he joined newly formed Polish legions in 1910, and pursued a steady military career during the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 and after it, eventually becoming a member of the Polish General Staff as Lt. Colonel. He was the first person to report the German attack on Poland on September1, 1939.

He commanded an infantry batallion defending Warsaw during the September campaing, and as soon fighting was over he volunteered for an underground military organization, becoming the District commander of the Łódź region, and afterwards Lwów region in 1940. Arrested by the Soviets he was imprisoned in Moscow and released in 1941. In the Polish Army formed in the Soviet Union he served as a Chief of Staff, and later on commanded an infantry Division. In 1943 he volunteered for Special Operation Paratroops to be parachuted into Poland where as a Brigadier General he became Deputy C-i-C of the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa).

He took an active part in the Warsaw Uprsing in 1944, and after the Uprising he was promoted to become C-i-C. of the Home Army. On January 19, 1945 he disbanded Home Army in the wake of the advance of the Red Army into Poland. The Soviets arrested him together with 15 Polish political leaders on March 27, 1945. He was flown to Moscow, where in June 1945 he was put on trail and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for alleged anti-Soviet activities. He died in the prison hospital following a surgery. His ashes were dumped into a common grave in a Moscow cemetery, and only in 1994 Polish authorities were permitted to place a memorial there.