Antoni Listowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish general
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Antoni Listowski
- Antoni Listowski (29 March 1865, Warsaw - 13 September 1927, Warsaw) was a Polish military officer.
- He reached the rank of general and took part in the Polish-Soviet War.General Antoni Listowski won the battle for Pinsk in March 1919 commanding the 9th Infantry Division.
- The city was taken over in a late-winter blizzard with considerable human losses sustained by his 34th Infantry Regiment who forced the Bolsheviks to retreat to the other side of the river. General Antoni Listowski, was a professional officer who had served in the Tsarist army.
- He had had wide experience on the front and possessed the temperament of an ardent fighter, particularly valuable when directing the kind of manoeuvres necessary in a war conducted on the country's borders.
- If it was a question of the operational problem of the 9th Division, then replacing Listowski with Sikorski was a very rash move.
- — Józef Lewandowski On 5 April 1919, Listowski's troops committed the Pinsk massacre, executing thirty five Jews.
- In his order to the population of Pinsk of 7 April 1919, two days after the massacre, Listowski justified the massacre as the "town's Jews as a whole were guilty of the crime of blatant ingratitude".
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