  thumb|200px|right|the polish war cemetery at monte cassino in italy. wÅadysÅaw anders (11 august 1892 â 12 may 1970) was a general in the polish army and later in life a politician with the polish government-in-exile in london. ==biography== anders was born on 11 august 1892 to his baltic-german father albert anders and his mother elizabeth, born tauchert,wÅadysÅaw anders on technical university rzeszÃ³w  in the village of kroÅniewiceâbÅonie, near kutno which at that time was part of the russian empire (partitions of poland). he had two brothers - karol and tadeusz.he was baptized as a member of the protestant evangelical-augsburg church in poland; but while being kept in soviet prisons he made a promise that if he survived and regained strength in his legs (he was seriously injured) he would convert to roman catholicism. he did surv
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