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1914
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1915
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Józef Piłsudski, portrait photograph, around 1914

Copyright: Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

Person

Józef Piłsudski

During the First World War, Pilsudski fought as a soldier and politician for the re-establishment of an independent Polish state. After 1918, he became Poland’s authoritarian head of state.