Source revealed for WWII murder

7th May 2011

Stories surrounding the death of Wladyslaw Sikorski have been thrust back into the limelight once again

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A German writer who has long argued that Winston Churchill ordered the assassination of Poland’s wartime leader has revealed his source for the first time.

In his latest book Rolf Hochhuth said a former British secret service agent had told him in the 1960s that Churchill had ordered the murder of General Wladyslaw Sikorski in order to remove an impediment to fruitful and vital British relations with the Soviet Union.

General Sikorski, then Poland’s prime minister and commander in chief, died when his Royal Air Force Liberator bomber crashed into the sea just seconds after taking off from the British colony of Gibraltar on the night of July 4, 1943. Although an official report into ...

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