Grabowski Robert "Radgast"

Unknown date and place of birth, as well as the names of his parents. He may have been associated with Zadruga before the war. This is suggested by Wacyk's information (see below – bibliography), who cites press notes about an alleged split in Zadruga and the departure of a "racist" group called "Radgast," led by Robert Grabowski. Although Wacyk explains that the information about the split was false (Zadruga members leaked it to the press to generate media interest), he does not deny the existence of Robert Grabowski himself.

It is said that before joining Zadruga, he showed communist sympathies.

In the cited court records, his address before the Warsaw Uprising was given as Suwalska 12 in Żoliborz. Although a street with this name currently exists in Warsaw's Bródno district, there was a street with the same name in Żoliborz until 1939. In the "List of subscribers of the Warsaw telephone network for 1938/39" (Warsaw 1938), Grabowski Stanisław, M.Sc., is listed at Suwalska 12. This would align with the information that R. G. came from a wealthy family – Suwalska was built with single-family homes (they were destroyed after the Warsaw Uprising, and post-war reconstruction changed the street layout) and having a telephone at that time was rare and indicated a certain social status.

He participated in the activities of the Zadruga circle from the beginning of the occupation. According to the testimony of "Sławbor" Kowalczyk, while maintaining contact with Stachniuk, he led his own circle of young Zadruga sympathizers in Warsaw on Żoliborz. In early 1941, he was in favor of moving to active activities by forming a military group, which caused opposition from the older generation of Zadruga members and Stachniuk himself. The coincidence in time with a similar initiative by Tadeusz Podgórski may suggest that they were acting together, but this is not certain. (Podgórski wrote about the "Group Sprawcza" which he claimed to have established at the time, but this name does not appear in sources related to Grabowski's initiative). Ultimately, Grabowski's circle (including Jerzy Pasamoński "Jasnowid" and Andrzej Kindler "Andrzej Jaworski") separates from Zadruga in 1941 to form the "Generational Movement of Young People" ("or Youth"), engaging in sabotage and armed activities. In the fall of 1941, this group comes under the influence of "Miecz i Pług" (Sword and Plow), and the newspaper "Młody Nurt" (Young Current), founded by them, becomes the organ of MiP's youth wing in 1942. Initially, elements of Zadruga ideology and S. slogans are visible in the publication. After Szukalski's mishap, which resulted in the entire editorial team being replaced, these elements became less prominent. It is unclear whether G. personally participated in creating "Młody Nurt" – the next editor (Jerzy Płażewski) noted in his account that he did not know anyone from the previous team, which ceased to exist entirely due to the mishap. Another split (in 1942, "Front Młodych" or SS Zadruga emerged – the abbreviation is unclear) weakened PRM, and ultimately the entire environment dissolved into MiP.

Robert Grabowski was arrested and killed by the Germans in mid-1942 under unclear circumstances.

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