To be fair, the phot needs some context....
Józef Tusk - Wikipedia
A member of the
Kashubian minority, Józef Tusk was born in
Gdańsk (Danzig,
German Empire) to Józef Tusk (1870–1910)
[1] and Augustyna Tusk (née Adamczyk; 1870–1962).
[2]He became a citizen of the
Free City of Danzig after
World War I and worked for the Polish railway in the Free City.
[3][4] He became a member of the Polish
Secret Military Organization (Tajna Organizacja Wojskowa, TOW), which prepared behind-the-lines operatives in case of the war. On 1 September 1938 Tusk was placed in the position of the telegraphist in the Danzig (Gdańsk) railway station. It is likely, but not confirmed, that he had been working with the
Polish intelligence services.
[5] On 1 September 1939, when
Germany invaded Poland, the Free City of Danzig was incorporated into the German Reich and the citizens of the Free City became German nationals. Tusk was assaulted in his house in the morning, and later witnessed German arrests of Poles at the railway station, and the
Defence of the Polish Post in Danzig.
[5]
Józef Tusk reported the assault to Danzig police, and was subsequently arrested as a Polish activist, described as a "Polish fanatic, dangerous to the security of the German State"; his family on the same day was evicted from their house.
[5] Tusk was
a forced laborer working in the construction of the
Stutthof concentration camp[5][6] In 1941 he was interviewed by
Gestapo and imprisoned in
Neuengamme concentration camp.
[7] On 26 August 1942 he was released from Neuengamme.
[7]
On 2 August 1944 Tusk was conscripted into Wehrmacht, into the 328. Grenadier-Ersatz- und Ausbildungsbatallion (328th Grenadier Replacement and Training Battalion).
[7][8][9]After about four months, around 24 November 1944 or soon afterward, he either deserted, defecting to the
Polish Armed Forces in the West, or was imprisoned in an Allied
prisoners-of-war camp.
[10][11]
Józef Tusk returned to
Sopot, where his family moved to, in the
People's Republic of Poland, in mid-October 1945.
[11] According to his family and friends, he never spoke much about his wartime history.
He sounds OK to me.