Józef Kachel ( 6 September 1913 &ndash; 1983 ) was a Polish Boy Scouts Scoutmaster in Germany , a member of the Communist Party , and a Member of the Polish Parliament Born in Beuthen in Upper Silesia , Kachel came from a mining family , and was raised in the Polish tradition . He was a member of the Union of Poles in Germany . In 1924 he joined the Polish Scouting Association ( Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego or ZHP ) in Germany . From March 1935 to September 1939 Kachel was the head of the Polish Scouting Association in Germany , and organized training courses for Scout instructors at Warmia and Powiśle . After the Invasion of Poland of 1939 the ZHP were branded criminals by Nazi Germany , who had executed many Scouts and Guides , along with other possible resistance leaders , but the ZHP carried on as a clandestine organization . In 1940 , the Soviet Union executed most of the Boy Scouts held at Ostashkov prison . Kachel was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp
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Józef Kachel