onboard the German heavy cruiser
Deutschland, Kiel, 1935 During the invasion of Poland in 1939, General Kutrzeba commanded the Poznań Army, composed of four infantry divisions (14, 17, 25, 26) and two cavalry brigades (Wielkopolska and Podolska). He devised the Polish counterattack plan of the
battle of Bzura and commanded the Poznań and Pomorze Armies during the battle. In the aftermath, he fought his way to
Warsaw and arrived in the capital on September 22, where he briefly became the deputy commander of the Warsaw Army. At the behest of major general
Juliusz Rómmel (commander of the Warsaw Army), he began
capitulation negotiations with the German 8th Army. On September 28, he signed the official surrender documents. After the
siege of Warsaw, he was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in several
prisoner of war camps: Hohenstein, Königstein and Oflag VII-A Murnau. General Kutrzeba remained a
prisoner of war until April 1945, when Oflag VII-A Murnau was liberated by American forces. , the Commander of German 8th Army, 1939 In April 1945 he was called to
London, where he was offered the position of Minister of Defense in the Government-in-Exile, which he declined. Instead, he chose to head a historical commission that focused on the Polish Army’s military campaign in September 1939 and the contributions of Polish soldiers fighting in the West from 1939 to 1945. ==Military promotions (Second Polish Republic)==