Piekalkiewicz Sees All Sides
By Irvana Keagy
In this age of the great protests, certain men stand from the rest carrying their own banners—banners reading "Freedom to Speak; Freedom to Disagree."
This is one reason Jaroslaw Andrzej Piekalkiewicz, assistant professor in the Political Science Department, has invited Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, to visit KU.
Piekalkiewicz, a native of Poland, who has lived under the oppression of both Nazi and Communist rule, said he strives to present all sides of a question.
"INTEGRATION IS IN the majority here and segregation is not, so we have invited Mr. Shelton to express the point of view for his organization. This is the reason for the Minority Opinions Forum—to hear all minorities," Piekalkiewicz said.
"We (of the Minority Opinions Forum) contacted him last summer and he said he would come, but in the meantime, he was put under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
"I suppose he was advised by some of his loyalists not to go around making speeches. The last telephone conversation we had with him was about two weeks ago and he said he was not sure whether he could come.
"I BELIEVE the students should be informed so they can talk intelligently and know what they are discussing." Pickalkiewicz said.
As he leaned forward over his desk, its top hidden by papers and books. Piekalkiewicz took from one of the many stacks of papers a "Curriculum vitae," several pages containing a modest outline of his military status and educational qualifications.
He picked a half smoked cigar from the ash tray, adjusted his thick black rimmed glasses, and quickly unfolded his life as both a military figure against Nazi occupation and a student.
BORN IN POZNAN, Poland, Piekalkiewicz learned at an early age to fight suppression of speech when Nazi Armies occupied Poland. At the age of 18, in 1941, he joined the Polish Underground Army (A.K.) against the Germans. He later fought as a guerilla in the Warsaw uprising, but was taken prisoner of war by the Germans in 1944.
At that stage of the war, the Russian army was closing in on Germany from the east and the Western allied armies were surging in from the west. The prisoners of war were transferred to camps inside more secure German territory as the allied forces reclaimed Nazi occupied land.
The prisoners were marched,
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cross-country, to each of the new camps. After three unsuccessful attempts to escape, Piekalkiewicz broke from the German guards during one of the transfers and made his way westward until he met with an American regiment.
AFTER THE WAR, his duty to Poland still before him, Piekal-kiewicz joined with the First Lancers, a name given the Polish second corps of the British Army. He was stationed in Italy for almost a year. He said, he joined because he and the other men in the corps hoped to organize a war to recapture Poland after the Communist-Russian takeover.
He went to Great Britain in 1946 and in 1948 settled there to begin a sporadic 25-year quest for a formal college education.
Piekalkiewicz was maintaining a permanent home in London while attending the University of Dublin in Ireland. Through mutual friends, he met an Irish girl who was working as a trained nurse in London. In 1957 they were married and after his graduation from the University, they came to the United States.
WHEN THEY ARRIVED in New York, Piekalkiewicz said they had exactly five dollars. To replenish their funds, Piekalkie-
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wicz worked for a business journal and later was a tax clerk for a wine importing company in New York City.
In 1959 they moved to Bloomington, Ind., and he enrolled at Indiana University. There he earned his Ph.D. degree and in 1963 came to KU as an assistant professor in the Political Science Department.
In 1964, Piekalkiewicz became a citizen of the United States.
Criminal police said they arrested ex-Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Harster and two aides, one of them a woman, on suspicion of complicity in mass murder in wartime Holland.
"Although I was a bit nervous, my prestige was involved. After teaching U.S. constitution and American government, failing (the citizenship examination) would not be good," he said.
Prosecuters said Harster bossed the Nazi security police—not gestapo—who rounded up the author of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and tens of thousands of other Dutch Jews and sent them to the Auschwitz death camp.
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