Witalis Karol Teodor Wieder (29 March 1895 – 22 February 1967) was a German-Polish collaborator, a Nazi sympathizer, a recruited Agent of the Abwehr, and a self-proclaimed leader of the Goralenvolk during World War II.Goralenvolk were pro-Nazi collaborators who claimed to originate from the aryan race, and who wanted to establish their own nation in the Polish mountains in Zakopane. He was a former officer in the Polish army. Wieder acted as a Reichsdeutscher, and was known collaborator. At the end of the war, he escaped to Germany.
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