The Polish Second Army Corps, stationed in Italy, was disbanded. It had fought for the liberation of Italy at Monte Cassino, Ancona, and Bologna. They were all former Gulag prisoners and had become inconvenient for De Gasperi, who was trying to make peace with Togliatti and therefore wanted to rid himself of the troublesome anti-communist Poles. Most of them went to England, others to Scotland, Ireland, Argentina, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Almost none wanted to return to Soviet-controlled Poland. Many of those who did were viewed with suspicion because they came from beyond the Iron Curtain, and were persecuted. General Anders, head of the Second Army Corps, settled in London, where he died and was buried, as he requested, at Monte Cassino, next to his soldiers.
