Stanisław Zarakowski

Stanisław Zarakowski (born 7 XI 1907 in Swołna, died 11 IV 1998 in Warsaw) - a notable Polish lawyer, infamous for his role as a prosecutor in several show trials during the Stalinist times in People's Republic of Poland. A graduate of the law faculty of the Wilno University, after the war he became the chief military prosecutor of Poland. At that post he was the main prosecutor in the so-called Trial of the Generals aimed at pre-war Polish officers, trial of Kazimierz Pużak, trial of politicians of the PSL shortly before the so-called people's referendum of 1946 and the trial of the Curia of Kraków aimed at the Catholic church. According to recent investigation by the IPN institute, Zarakowski was also the man to order the judge to sentence Capt. Witold Pilecki to the death penalty.

Brigadier general, demoted to private in 1991.