Narcyz Wiatr

Narcyz Wiatr (nom-de-guerre "Zawoja" and "Władysław Brzoza"; 19 September 1907 – 21 April 1945) was a Polish political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party (SL), a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison and during World War II a leader of Peasants' Battalions (BCh) an anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of colonel.

Biography Wiatr was born on 19 September 1907 in Stróże. 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 (agrarian) movement. Between 1937 and 1939 he was the chief of the SL in Nowy Sącz. At the time it was claimed that Wiatr had been killed by "unknown perpetrators". and no investigation into his murder was conducted.

In 1990 the Kraków office of the Institute of National Remembrance, charged with investigating historical crimes by Nazis and communists in Poland, began an official investigation into his death. In 1996, Stanisław Paryła, who had been an agent of the Kraków communist secret police in 1945 and participated in the shooting during which Wiatr was killed, was charged with murder. Because of the ill health of the accused, the trial was postponed.