He commanded so called air assault company, spreading fear among the enemy. His division liberated the Oberlangen POW camp, where the Germans imprisoned Home Army soldiers from the Warsaw Uprising.

On September 26, 1946 the government in Warsaw passed a resolution stripping 75 officers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West of their Polish citizenship.
Despite his great service to his country and honors around the world, Gen. Maczek was stripped of his citizenship and pension. He worked first as a sales clerk, then as a bartender in Edinburgh hotels. He did not bow down to the communist authorities, he kept his dignity to the end.
In 1989, the general's Polish citizenship was restored, in 2000. In 2000, the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade was named after him.