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| partof = [[Resistance during World War II]] and the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] of [[World War II]] |
| partof = [[Resistance during World War II]] and the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] of [[World War II]] |
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| image = [[File:Warsaw Uprising by Deczkowki - Kolegium A -15861.jpg|150px]][[File:Jewish prisones of KZGesiowka liberated by Polish Soldiers of Home Army Warsaw1944.jpg|150px]][[File:Warsaw 1944.jpg|150px]][[File:Jędrusie 3.jpg|150px]] |
| image = [[File:Warsaw Uprising by Deczkowki - Kolegium A -15861.jpg|150px]] [[File:Jewish prisones of KZGesiowka liberated by Polish Soldiers of Home Army Warsaw1944.jpg|150px]] [[File:Warsaw 1944.jpg|150px]] [[File:Jędrusie 3.jpg|150px]] |
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| caption = Sequentially from top: soldiers from Kolegium "A" of [[Kedyw]] on Stawki Street in [[Wola]] district, during the [[Warsaw Uprising]], 1944; Jewish prisoners of [[Gęsiówka]] concentration camp liberated by Polish [[Home Army]] soldiers from [[Battalion Zośka|"Zośka" Battalion]], 5 August 1944; Polish partisans of "[[Jędrusie]]" unit in [[Kielce]] area, 1945; Old Town of Warsaw in flames during Warsaw Uprising |
| caption = Sequentially from top: soldiers from Kolegium "A" of [[Kedyw]] on Stawki Street in [[Wola]] district, during the [[Warsaw Uprising]], 1944; Jewish prisoners of [[Gęsiówka]] concentration camp liberated by Polish [[Home Army]] soldiers from [[Battalion Zośka|"Zośka" Battalion]], 5 August 1944; Polish partisans of "[[Jędrusie]]" unit in [[Kielce]] area, 1945; Old Town of Warsaw in flames during Warsaw Uprising |
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| date = [[Service for Poland's Victory|27 September 1939]] – [[Augustów roundup|25 July 1945]]<br>(anti-communist resistance continued until mid-1950s) |
| date = [[Service for Poland's Victory|27 September 1939]] – [[Augustów roundup|25 July 1945]]<br>(anti-communist resistance continued until mid-1950s) |
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| place = [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]], present-day [[Lithuania]], [[Belarus]], [[Ukraine]]. |
| place = [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]], present-day [[Lithuania]], [[Belarus]], [[Ukraine]]. |
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| result = |
| result = Polish Victory |
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*[[Polish contribution to World War II|Contribution]] to [[Allies of World War II|Allied forces]] |
* [[Polish contribution to World War II|Contribution]] to [[Allies of World War II|Allied forces]] |
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*Restoration of Polish statehood after [[Occupation of Poland (1939-1945)|occupation]] |
* Restoration of Polish statehood after [[Occupation of Poland (1939-1945)|occupation]] |
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*[[Sovietization]] of Poland, imposition of a communist [[Polish People's Republic|puppet government]] and reduction of Poland to a [[History of Poland (1945–1989)|Soviet satellite state]] until 1989 |
* [[Sovietization]] of Poland, imposition of a communist [[Polish People's Republic|puppet government]] and reduction of Poland to a [[History of Poland (1945–1989)|Soviet satellite state]] until 1989 |
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*Liquidation of the [[Polish Home Army]] and other anti-Nazi resistance movements by the [[Soviet secret police]] |
* Liquidation of the [[Polish Home Army]] and other anti-Nazi resistance movements by the [[Soviet secret police]] |
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*[[Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–46)|Continued anti-communist resistance]] |
* [[Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–46)|Continued anti-communist resistance]] |
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| combatant1 = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} |
| combatant1 = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} |
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*[[Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions|Lithuanian Auxiliary Police]] |
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Lithuania.svg}} [[Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions|Lithuanian Auxiliary Police]] |
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*{{flagicon image|Flag of Lithuania.svg}} [[Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force]] |
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*[[Ukrainian Auxiliary Police]] |
* {{flagicon image|OUN-M-03.svg}} [[Ukrainian Auxiliary Police]] |
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*[[Collaboration in German-occupied Poland|Collaborators]] |
* [[Collaboration in German-occupied Poland|Collaborators]] |
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----{{flag|Soviet Union|1936}}<br><small>(1939–1941; after 1944 against non-Communists only)</small><hr>{{nowrap|{{flagicon image| |
----{{flag|Soviet Union|1936}}<br><small>(1939–1941; after 1944 against non-Communists only)</small><hr>{{nowrap|{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.svg|22px}} [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]]}}<br><small>(1943–1945)</small> |
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| combatant2 = {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Polish Underground State]] |
| combatant2 = {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Polish Underground State]] |
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* {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Home Army]]{{efn|Started as [[Service for Poland's Victory]] in September 1939 and reformed into the [[Union of Armed Struggle]] in November the same year. This in turn became the Home Army in February 1942.|name=AK}} |
* {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Home Army]]{{efn|Started as [[Service for Poland's Victory]] in September 1939 and reformed into the [[Union of Armed Struggle]] in November the same year. This in turn became the Home Army in February 1942.|name=AK}} |
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{{nowrap|{{flagicon image|Banner of the Farmer Battalions (Stronnictwo Ludowe Roch).svg|22px}} [[Bataliony Chłopskie|Peasants' Battalions]]{{efn|Integrated into the Home Army in 1944.|name=BCh}}}}<br>{{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[National Armed Forces]]{{efn|Partially integrated into the Home Army in March 1944 (NSZ-AK), while remaining units continued independently (NSZ-ZJ).|name=NSZ}}}}<br>''[[#Formations|and others...]]''<br>'''Supported by:'''<br>{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Polish Government-in-Exile]]<br>{{flagdeco|UK}}{{flagdeco|USA|1912}} [[Allies of World War II|Western Allies]]<hr>{{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland|Provisional Government]]{{efn|The [[Polish Workers' Party]] established the [[State National Council]] to rival the [[Polish Underground State]] in December 1943. The Council established the [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] in July 1944 which evolved into the Provisional Government of Poland in December 1944.|name=RTRP}}}} |
{{nowrap|{{flagicon image|Banner of the Farmer Battalions (Stronnictwo Ludowe Roch).svg|22px}} [[Bataliony Chłopskie|Peasants' Battalions]]{{efn|Integrated into the Home Army in 1944.|name=BCh}}}}<br>{{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[National Armed Forces]]{{efn|Formed from the merger of the [[National Military Organization]] and [[Military Organization Lizard Union]] in 1942. Partially integrated into the Home Army in March 1944 (NSZ-AK), while remaining units continued independently (NSZ-ZJ).|name=NSZ}}}}<br>''[[#Formations|and others...]]''<br>'''Supported by:'''<br>{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Polish Government-in-Exile]]<br>{{flagdeco|UK}}{{flagdeco|USA|1912}} [[Allies of World War II|Western Allies]]<hr>{{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland|Provisional Government]]{{efn|The [[Polish Workers' Party]] established the [[State National Council]] to rival the [[Polish Underground State]] in December 1943. The Council established the [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] in July 1944 which evolved into the Provisional Government of Poland in December 1944.|name=RTRP}}}} |
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* {{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Gwardia Ludowa|People's Guard]] <small>( |
* {{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Gwardia Ludowa|People's Guard]] <small>(1942–1944)</small>}} |
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* {{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Armia Ludowa|People's Army]] <small>(1944)</small>}} |
* {{nowrap|{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Armia Ludowa|People's Army]] <small>(1944)</small>}} |
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'''Supported by:'''<br>{{flagdeco|USSR|1936}} [[Soviet Union]] <small>(After 1941)</small> |
'''Supported by:'''<br>{{flagdeco|USSR|1936}} [[Soviet Union]] <small>(After 1941)</small> |
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|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Hans Frank]] |
|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Hans Frank]] |
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|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Walter Model]] |
|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Walter Model]] |
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|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Oskar Dirlewanger]] |
|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Oskar Dirlewanger]] {{KIA}} |
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|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski|E. von dem Bach-Zelewski]]}} |
|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski|E. von dem Bach-Zelewski]]}} |
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|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Franz Kutschera]]{{ |
|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Franz Kutschera]] {{Assassinated}} |
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|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Rainer Stahel]] |
|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Rainer Stahel]] |
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|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Heinz Reinefarth]] |
|{{flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Heinz Reinefarth]] |
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|{{flagicon|USSR|1936}} [[Ivan Serov]] |
|{{flagicon|USSR|1936}} [[Ivan Serov]] |
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|{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.svg}} [[Roman Shukhevych]] |
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|{{flagicon image| |
|{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.svg}} [[Dmytro Klyachkivsky]]{{KIA}}}} |
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| commander2 = {{Unbulleted list |
| commander2 = {{Unbulleted list |
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|{{flagicon|Poland|1928}} [[Henryk Dobrzański]]{{KIA}} |
|{{flagicon|Poland|1928}} [[Henryk Dobrzański]]{{KIA}} |
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|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski|M. Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski]]}} |
|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski|M. Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski]]}} |
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|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Stefan Rowecki]]{{executed}} |
|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Stefan Rowecki]]{{executed}} |
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|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Tadeusz |
|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Tadeusz Komorowski]] |
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|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Leopold Okulicki]]{{executed}} |
|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Leopold Okulicki]]{{executed}} |
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|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Tadeusz Pełczyński]] |
|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Tadeusz Pełczyński]] |
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|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Emil August Fieldorf]] |
|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Emil August Fieldorf]] |
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|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Antoni Chruściel]] |
|{{flagicon|Polish Underground State}} [[Antoni Chruściel]] |
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|{{flagicon image|Banner of the Farmer Battalions (Stronnictwo Ludowe Roch).svg|22px}} [[Franciszek Kamiński]] |
|{{flagicon image|Banner of the Farmer Battalions (Stronnictwo Ludowe Roch).svg|22px}} [[Franciszek Kamiński]] |
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|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Ignacy Oziewicz]] |
|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Ignacy Oziewicz]] |
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|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Tadeusz Kurcyusz]]{{KIA}} |
|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Tadeusz Kurcyusz]]{{KIA}} |
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|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Stanisław Kasznica]] |
|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Stanisław Kasznica]] |
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|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Władysław Gomułka]] |
|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Władysław Gomułka]] |
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|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Franciszek Jóźwiak]] |
|{{flagicon|POL|1928}} [[Franciszek Jóźwiak]] |
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| strength2 = {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Polish Underground State]]<br>650,000 (1944)<ref name="Komorowski2009">{{cite book|author=Krzysztof Komorowski|title=Boje polskie |
| strength2 = {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Polish Underground State]]<br>650,000 (1944)<ref name="Komorowski2009">{{cite book|author=Krzysztof Komorowski|title=Boje polskie 1939–1945: przewodnik encyklopedyczny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XX5KcTNWbooC&pg=PA6|year=2009|publisher=Bellona|isbn=978-8373993532|page=6|language=pl}}</ref><hr>{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Armia Ludowa|Polish People's Army]]<br>~200,000 |
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| casualties1 = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} |
| casualties1 = {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} |
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*up to 150,000 killed, 6,000 officials assassinated |
* up to 150,000 killed, 6,000 officials assassinated |
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*4,326 damaged or destroyed vehicles |
* 4,326 damaged or destroyed vehicles |
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*1/8 of [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] rail transport damaged or destroyed |
* 1/8 of [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] rail transport damaged or destroyed |
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{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.svg|22px}} [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] |
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*6, |
* 6,000–12,000 killed |
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| casualties2 = {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Polish Underground State]] |
| casualties2 = {{flagdeco|Polish Underground State}} [[Polish Underground State]] |
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*~34, |
* ~34,000–100,000 killed |
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*20, |
* 20,000–50,000 wounded or captured |
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{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Armia Ludowa|Polish People's Army]] |
{{flagdeco|POL|1928}} [[Armia Ludowa|Polish People's Army]] |
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*~5, |
* ~5,000–10,000 |
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| strength1 = 1,080,000 (1944) |
| strength1 = 1,080,000 (1944) |
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| territory = [[Borders of Poland]] altered; prewar [[Kresy|eastern territories]] of Poland [[Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945|ceded to the Soviet Union]] in exchange for [[Recovered Territories|former German territories]] in the West |
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In Poland, the [[Resistance during World War II|resistance movement]] during [[World War II]] was led by the [[Home Army]]. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines to the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] (damaging or destroying 1/8 of all rail transports), and providing [[military intelligence|intelligence reports]] to the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[British intelligence agencies|intelligence agencies]] (providing 43% of all reports from [[German-occupied Europe|occupied Europe]]). It was a part of the [[Polish Underground State]]. |
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==Organizations== |
==Organizations== |
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The largest of all Polish resistance organizations was the [[Armia Krajowa]] (Home Army, |
The largest of all Polish resistance organizations was the [[Armia Krajowa]] (Home Army, AK), loyal to the [[Polish government in exile]] in London. The AK was formed in 1942 from the [[Union of Armed Struggle]] (''Związek Walki Zbrojnej'' or ZWZ, itself created in 1939) and would eventually incorporate most other Polish armed resistance groups (except for the [[communist]]s and some [[far-right]] groups).<ref name="MNK">{{cite web|first=Marek |last=Ney-Krwawicz |url=http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/2%20Article.htm |title=The Polish Underground State and The Home Army (1939–45) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824034513/http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/2%20Article.htm |archive-date=24 August 2016 |quote=Translated from Polish by Antoni Bohdanowicz |website= Polish Resistance in WW II |publisher=London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association |access-date= 14 March 2008}}</ref><ref name="AK-WIEM">{{in lang|pl}} [http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/59129,,,,armia_krajowa,haslo.html Armia Krajowa] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826221020/http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/59129,,,,armia_krajowa,haslo.html |date=26 August 2016 }}. [[Encyklopedia WIEM]]. Retrieved 2 April 2008.</ref> It was the military arm of the [[Polish Underground State]] and loyal to the [[Polish government in Exile]].<ref name="MNK"/> |
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Most of the other Polish underground armed organizations were created by a political party or faction, and included: |
Most of the other Polish underground armed organizations were created by a political party or faction, and included: |
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* The ''[[Bataliony Chłopskie]]'' (Peasants' Battalions). Created by the leftist [[People's Party (Poland)|People's Party]] around 1940–1941, it would partially merge with AK around 1942–1943.<ref name=WPH>{{cite book|title=Wojskowy przegla̜d historyczny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFJpAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=s.n.|page=134|language=pl}}</ref> |
* The ''[[Bataliony Chłopskie]]'' (Peasants' Battalions). Created by the leftist [[People's Party (Poland)|People's Party]] around 1940–1941, it would partially merge with AK around 1942–1943.<ref name=WPH>{{cite book|title=Wojskowy przegla̜d historyczny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFJpAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=s.n.|page=134|language=pl}}</ref> |
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* The ''[[Gwardia Ludowa WRN]]'' (People's Guard of WRN) of [[Polish Socialist Party]] (PPS) (joined ZWZ around 1940, subsequently merged into AK)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/31319,,,,gwardia_ludowa_wrn,haslo.html?drukuj%3D1 |title=Gwardia Ludowa WRN |
* The ''[[Gwardia Ludowa WRN]]'' (People's Guard of WRN) of [[Polish Socialist Party]] (PPS) (joined ZWZ around 1940, subsequently merged into AK)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/31319,,,,gwardia_ludowa_wrn,haslo.html?drukuj%3D1 |title=Gwardia Ludowa WRN – Zapytaj.onet.pl |access-date=2014-05-09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172945/http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/31319,,,,gwardia_ludowa_wrn,haslo.html?drukuj=1 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="LERSKI1996-665">{{cite book|author=Halina Lerski HA |
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|title=Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=luRry4Y5NIYC&pg=PA665|year= 1996|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313034565|page=665}}</ref> |
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* The ''[[Konfederacja Narodu]]'' (Confederation of the Nation). Created in 1940 by far-right ''[[National Radical Camp Falanga|Obóz Narodowo Radykalny-Falanga]]'' (National Radical Camp Falanga).<ref>{{cite book|title=Wizje Polski: programy polityczne lat wojny i okupacji, |
* The ''[[Konfederacja Narodu]]'' (Confederation of the Nation). Created in 1940 by far-right ''[[National Radical Camp Falanga|Obóz Narodowo Radykalny-Falanga]]'' (National Radical Camp Falanga).<ref>{{cite book|title=Wizje Polski: programy polityczne lat wojny i okupacji, 1939–1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6pPAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Elipsa|page=416|isbn = 978-8385466109|language=pl}}</ref> It would partially merge with ZWZ around 1941 and finally join AK around fall 1943. |
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* The ''[[Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa]]'' (National Military Organisation), established by the [[National Party (Poland)|National Party]] in 1939, mostly integrated with AK around 1942.<ref name=WIEM-NOW>{{cite web|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/69281,,,,narodowa_organizacja_wojskowa,haslo.html |title=Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa |
* The ''[[Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa]]'' (National Military Organisation), established by the [[National Party (Poland)|National Party]] in 1939, mostly integrated with AK around 1942.<ref name=WIEM-NOW>{{cite web|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/69281,,,,narodowa_organizacja_wojskowa,haslo.html |title=Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa –Zapytaj.onet.pl |access-date=2014-05-09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423215503/http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/69281,,,,narodowa_organizacja_wojskowa,haslo.html |archive-date=23 April 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref> |
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*''[[Narodowe Siły Zbrojne]]'' (National Armed Forces); created in 1943 from dissatisfied NOW units, which refused to be subordinated to the AK.<ref name=WIEM-NOW/><ref name="KonopkaKonopka1999"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/30636,,,,narodowe_sily_zbrojne,haslo.html |title=Narodowe Siły Zbrojne |
* ''[[Narodowe Siły Zbrojne]]'' (National Armed Forces); created in 1943 from dissatisfied NOW units, which refused to be subordinated to the AK.<ref name=WIEM-NOW/><ref name="KonopkaKonopka1999"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/30636,,,,narodowe_sily_zbrojne,haslo.html |title=Narodowe Siły Zbrojne –Zapytaj.onet.pl |access-date=2014-05-09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211423/http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/30636,,,,narodowe_sily_zbrojne,haslo.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref> |
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* The ''[[Obóz Polski Walczącej]]'' (Camp of Fighting Poland), established by the [[Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego]] (Camp of National Unity) around 1942, subordinated to AK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://encyklopedia.interia.pl/haslo?hid%3D91093 |title=Encyklopedie w |
* The ''[[Obóz Polski Walczącej]]'' (Camp of Fighting Poland), established by the [[Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego]] (Camp of National Unity) around 1942, subordinated to AK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://encyklopedia.interia.pl/haslo?hid%3D91093 |title=Encyklopedie w interia.pl – największa w Polsce encyklopedia internetowa |access-date=2014-05-09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174043/http://encyklopedia.interia.pl/haslo?hid=91093 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref> in 1943. |
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The largest groups that refused to join the AK were the [[National Armed Forces]] and the pro-Soviet and communist [[Armia Ludowa|People's Army]] (Polish ''Armia Ludowa'' or AL), backed by the [[Soviet Union]] and established by the [[Polish Workers' Party]] (Polish ''Polska Partia Robotnicza'' or PPR).<ref name="AL-PWN">{{in lang|pl}} [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3871193 Armia Ludowa] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512231936/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3871193 |date=12 May 2014 }}. [[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN|Encyklopedia PWN]]. Retrieved 21 December 2006.</ref> |
The largest groups that refused to join the AK were the [[National Armed Forces]] and the pro-Soviet and communist [[Armia Ludowa|People's Army]] (Polish ''Armia Ludowa'' or AL), backed by the [[Soviet Union]] and established by the [[Polish Workers' Party]] (Polish ''Polska Partia Robotnicza'' or PPR).<ref name="AL-PWN">{{in lang|pl}} [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3871193 Armia Ludowa] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512231936/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3871193 |date=12 May 2014 }}. [[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN|Encyklopedia PWN]]. Retrieved 21 December 2006.</ref> |
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==Size== |
==Size== |
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In February 1942, when AK was formed, it numbered about 100,000 members.<ref name="AK-WIEM"/> In the beginning of 1943, it had reached a strength of about 200,000.<ref name="AK-WIEM"/> In the summer of 1944 when [[Operation Tempest]] began, AK reached its highest membership numbers, though the estimates vary from 300,000<ref name="Leslie234">Roy Francis Leslie, ''The History of Poland Since 1863'', Cambridge University Press, 1983, {{ISBN| |
In February 1942, when AK was formed, it numbered about 100,000 members.<ref name="AK-WIEM"/> In the beginning of 1943, it had reached a strength of about 200,000.<ref name="AK-WIEM"/> In the summer of 1944 when [[Operation Tempest]] began, AK reached its highest membership numbers, though the estimates vary from 300,000<ref name="Leslie234">Roy Francis Leslie, ''The History of Poland Since 1863'', Cambridge University Press, 1983, {{ISBN|0521275016}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0tYVKUsnw9IC&dq=%22Armia+Krajowa%22+largest&pg=PA234 Google Print, p. 234] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501075219/https://books.google.com/books?id=0tYVKUsnw9IC&pg=PA234&dq=%22Armia+Krajowa%22+largest&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=NzzMR_mOIJGSzQSb7cSwCQ&sig=rLD9gO8sIve_RDxnvTLWfMeFlGg |date=1 May 2016 }}</ref> to 500,000.<ref name="Salm317">Stanisław Salmonowicz, ''Polskie Państwo Podziemne'', Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, Warszawa, 1994, {{ISBN|830205500X}}, p. 317</ref> The strength of the second largest resistance organization, [[Bataliony Chłopskie]] (Peasants' Battalions), can be estimated for summer 1944 (at which time they were mostly merged with AK<ref name=WPH/>) at about 160,000 men.<ref name="Biegalski1999">{{cite book|author=Bogdan Biegalski|title=Organizacje podziemne na Środkowym Nadodrzu w latach 1945–1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtS1AAAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Lubuskie Towarzystwo Naukowe|isbn=978-8391010921|page=61|language=pl}}</ref> The third largest group include [[Narodowe Siły Zbrojne|NSZ]] (National Armed Forces) with approximately 70,000 men around 1943–1944; only small parts of that force were merged with AK.<ref name="KonopkaKonopka1999">{{cite book|author1=Hanna Konopka|author2=Adrian Konopka|title=Leksykon historii Polski po II wojnie światowej 1944–1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vqe1AAAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Graf-Punkt|isbn=978-8387988081|page=130|language=pl}}</ref> At its height in 1944, the communist Armia Ludowa, which never merged with AK, numbered about 30,000 people.<ref name="AL-PWN"/> One estimate for the summer 1944 strength of AK and its allies, including NSZ, gives its strength at 650,000.<ref name="Komorowski2009"/> Overall, the Polish resistance have often been described as the largest or one of the largest resistance organizations in World War II Europe.{{Ref label|a|a|none}} |
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==Actions, operations, and intelligence, 1939–1945== |
==Actions, operations, and intelligence, 1939–1945== |
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===1939=== |
===1939=== |
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[[File:Witold Pilecki 1.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Witold Pilecki]] |
[[File:Witold Pilecki 1.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Witold Pilecki]] – founder of the [[Secret Polish Army|TAP]] organisation and the secret agent of Polish resistance in [[Auschwitz]]]] |
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On 9 November 1939, two soldiers of the Polish |
On 9 November 1939, two soldiers of the Polish army{{snd}}[[Witold Pilecki]] and Major [[Jan Włodarkiewicz]]{{snd}}founded the [[Secret Polish Army]] (''Tajna Armia Polska'', TAP), one of the first underground organizations in Poland after defeat.<ref name="ipn"/> Pilecki became its organizational commander as TAP expanded to cover not only [[Warsaw]] but [[Siedlce]], [[Radom]], [[Lublin]] and other major cities of central Poland.<ref name="konfederacja"/> By 1940, TAP had approximately 8,000 men (more than half of them armed), some 20 [[machine gun]]s and several [[Anti-tank rifle, model 35|anti-tank rifle]]s. Later, the organization was incorporated into the [[Union for Armed Struggle]] (''Związek Walki Zbrojnej''), later renamed and better known as the Home Army (''[[Armia Krajowa]]'').<ref name="google"/> |
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In March 1940, a partisan unit of the first [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] commanders in the Second World War in Europe under Major [[Henryk Dobrzański|Henryk Dobrzański "Hubal"]] destroyed a [[battalion]] of German infantry in a skirmish near the village of [[:pl:Huciska|Huciska]]. A few days later in an ambush near the village of Szałasy it inflicted heavy casualties upon another German unit. To counter this threat the German authorities formed a special 1,000 men strong [[Bandenbekämpfung|counter-insurgency unit]] of combined [[SS]]–[[Wehrmacht]] forces, including a [[Panzer]] group. Although the unit of Major Dobrzański never exceeded 300 men, the Germans fielded at least 8,000 men in the area to secure it.<ref name="szymanski"/><ref name="militaryhistorypress"/> |
In March 1940, a partisan unit of the first [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] commanders in the Second World War in Europe under Major [[Henryk Dobrzański|Henryk Dobrzański "Hubal"]] destroyed a [[battalion]] of German infantry in a skirmish near the village of [[:pl:Huciska|Huciska]]. A few days later in an ambush near the village of Szałasy it inflicted heavy casualties upon another German unit. To counter this threat the German authorities formed a special 1,000 men strong [[Bandenbekämpfung|counter-insurgency unit]] of combined [[SS]]–[[Wehrmacht]] forces, including a [[Panzer]] group. Although the unit of Major Dobrzański never exceeded 300 men, the Germans fielded at least 8,000 men in the area to secure it.<ref name="szymanski"/><ref name="militaryhistorypress"/> |
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In 1940, [[Witold Pilecki]], an [[intelligence officer]] for the Polish resistance, presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's [[Auschwitz|Auschwitz concentration camp]], gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance.<ref name="concentration"/> The Home Army approved this plan, provided him a false identity card, and on 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a street roundup ([[łapanka]]) in Warsaw and was caught by the Germans along with other civilians and sent to Auschwitz. In the camp he organized the underground organization |
In 1940, [[Witold Pilecki]], an [[intelligence officer]] for the Polish resistance, presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's [[Auschwitz|Auschwitz concentration camp]], gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance.<ref name="concentration"/> The Home Army approved this plan, provided him a false identity card, and on 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a street roundup ([[łapanka]]) in Warsaw and was caught by the Germans along with other civilians and sent to Auschwitz. In the camp he organized the underground organization – [[Związek Organizacji Wojskowej]] – ZOW.<ref name="hoh"/> From October 1940, ZOW sent its first report about the camp and the genocide in November 1940 to Home Army Headquarters in Warsaw through the resistance network organized in Auschwitz.<ref name="auschwitz"/> |
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[[File:Hubal3.png|thumb|"Hubal" and his partisan unit |
[[File:Hubal3.png|thumb|"Hubal" and his partisan unit –winter 1940]] |
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During the night of 21–22 January 1940, in the Soviet-occupied [[Podolia]]n town of [[Czortków]], the [[Czortków Uprising]] started; it was the first Polish uprising during World War II. Anti-Soviet Poles, most of them teenagers from local high schools, stormed the local [[Red Army]] barracks and a prison, in order to release Polish soldiers kept there. |
During the night of 21–22 January 1940, in the Soviet-occupied [[Podolia]]n town of [[Czortków]], the [[Czortków Uprising]] started; it was the first Polish uprising during World War II. Anti-Soviet Poles, most of them teenagers from local high schools, stormed the local [[Red Army]] barracks and a prison, in order to release Polish soldiers kept there. |
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At the end of 1940 [[Aleksander Kamiński]] created a Polish youth resistance organization, known as "Wawer".<ref name="google1"/> It was part of the [[Szare Szeregi]] (the underground [[Polish Scouting Association]]). This organisation carried out many [[minor sabotage]] operations in occupied Poland. Its first action was drawing [[graffiti]] in [[Warsaw]] around Christmas Eve of 1940 commemorating the [[Wawer massacre]].<ref name="warszawa"/> Members of the AK Wawer "Small Sabotage" units painted "Pomścimy Wawer" ("We'll avenge Wawer") on Warsaw walls. At first they painted the whole text, then to save time they shortened it to two letters, P and W. Later they invented [[Kotwica]] |
At the end of 1940 [[Aleksander Kamiński]] created a Polish youth resistance organization, known as "Wawer".<ref name="google1"/> It was part of the [[Szare Szeregi]] (the underground [[Polish Scouting Association]]). This organisation carried out many [[minor sabotage]] operations in occupied Poland. Its first action was drawing [[graffiti]] in [[Warsaw]] around Christmas Eve of 1940 commemorating the [[Wawer massacre]].<ref name="warszawa"/> Members of the AK Wawer "Small Sabotage" units painted "Pomścimy Wawer" ("We'll avenge Wawer") on Warsaw walls. At first they painted the whole text, then to save time they shortened it to two letters, P and W. Later they invented [[Kotwica]] – "Anchor" – which became the symbol of all Polish resistance in occupied Poland.<ref name="symbolika"/> |
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On 7 March 1941, two Polish agents of the Home Army killed Nazi [[Collaborationism|collaborator]] actor [[Igo Sym]] in his apartment in Warsaw. In reprisal, 21 Polish hostages were executed. Several Polish actors were also arrested by the Nazis and sent to [[Auschwitz]], among them such notable figures as directors [[Stefan Jaracz]] and [[Leon Schiller]]. |
On 7 March 1941, two Polish agents of the Home Army killed Nazi [[Collaborationism|collaborator]] actor [[Igo Sym]] in his apartment in Warsaw. In reprisal, 21 Polish hostages were executed. Several Polish actors were also arrested by the Nazis and sent to [[Auschwitz]], among them such notable figures as directors [[Stefan Jaracz]] and [[Leon Schiller]]. |
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In July 1941 [[Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski|Mieczysław Słowikowski]] (using the codename "Rygor" |
In July 1941 [[Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski|Mieczysław Słowikowski]] (using the codename "Rygor" – Polish for "Rigor") set up "[[Agency Africa]]", one of World War II's most successful intelligence organizations.<ref name="intelligence"/> His Polish allies in these endeavors included Lt. Col. [[Gwido Langer]] and Major [[Maksymilian Ciężki]]. The information gathered by the Agency was used by the Americans and British in planning the amphibious November 1942 [[Operation Torch]]<ref name="slowikowski"/> landings in North Africa. These were the first large-scale Allied landings of the war, and their success in turn paved the way for the Allies' [[Italy|Italian]] campaign. |
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[[File:Zdzisław de Ville.jpg|thumb|upright|Polish partisan Zdzisław de Ville "Zdzich", member of AK "[[Jędrusie]]" with [[Browning wz.1928|Polish version]] of the [[M1918 BAR]]]] |
[[File:Zdzisław de Ville.jpg|thumb|upright|Polish partisan Zdzisław de Ville "Zdzich", member of AK "[[Jędrusie]]" with [[Browning wz.1928|Polish version]] of the [[M1918 BAR]]]] |
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On 20 June 1942, the most spectacular escape from [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] took place. Four Poles, Eugeniusz Bendera,<ref name="PSB">Wojciech Zawadzki (2012), [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103214327/http://www.psbprzedborz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50%3Abendera-eugeniusz Eugeniusz Bendera ( |
On 20 June 1942, the most spectacular escape from [[Auschwitz concentration camp]] took place. Four Poles, Eugeniusz Bendera,<ref name="PSB">Wojciech Zawadzki (2012), [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103214327/http://www.psbprzedborz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50%3Abendera-eugeniusz Eugeniusz Bendera (1906–1970).] Przedborski Słownik Biograficzny, via Internet Archive.</ref> [[Kazimierz Piechowski]], Stanisław Gustaw Jaster and Józef Lempart made a daring escape.<ref name="piechowski"/> The escapees were dressed as members of the [[3rd SS Division Totenkopf|SS-Totenkopfverbände]], fully armed and in an SS staff car. They drove out the main gate in a stolen [[Steyr automobile|Steyr]] 220 automobile with a smuggled report from [[Witold Pilecki]] about the Holocaust. Three of the escapees remained free until the end of the war; Jaster, who joined the Polish Underground, was recaptured in 1943 and died shortly afterwards in German custody.<ref name="auschwitz2"/> |
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In September 1942 "The Żegota Council for the Aid of the Jews" was founded by [[Zofia Kossak-Szczucka]] and [[Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz]] ("Alinka") and made up of Polish Democrats as well as other [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] activists. Poland was the only country in occupied Europe where there existed such a dedicated secret organization. Half of the Jews who survived the war (thus over 50,000) were aided in some shape or form by Żegota.<ref name="Piotrowski118"/> The best-known activist of Żegota was [[Irena Sendler]], head of the children's division, who saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the [[Warsaw Ghetto]], providing them with false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the ghetto.<ref name="Baczynska"/> |
In September 1942 "The Żegota Council for the Aid of the Jews" was founded by [[Zofia Kossak-Szczucka]] and [[Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz]] ("Alinka") and made up of Polish Democrats as well as other [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] activists. Poland was the only country in occupied Europe where there existed such a dedicated secret organization. Half of the Jews in Poland who survived the war (thus over 50,000) were aided in some shape or form by Żegota.<ref name="Piotrowski118"/> The best-known activist of Żegota was [[Irena Sendler]], head of the children's division, who saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the [[Warsaw Ghetto]], providing them with false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the ghetto.<ref name="Baczynska"/> |
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In 1942 [[Jan Karski]] reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the Holocaust of the Jews. He met with Polish politicians in exile including the prime minister, and members of political parties such as the [[Polish Socialist Party|Socialist Party]], [[National Party (Poland)|National Party]], [[Labour Faction (1937)|Labor Party]], [[People's Party (Poland)|People's Party]], [[General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland|Jewish Bund]] and [[Poalei Zion]]. He also spoke to [[Anthony Eden]], the British foreign secretary, and included a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and Bełżec.<ref name="Karski 2013">Karski (2013)</ref><ref name="jankowski"/> |
In 1942 [[Jan Karski]] reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the Holocaust of the Jews. He met with Polish politicians in exile including the prime minister, and members of political parties such as the [[Polish Socialist Party|Socialist Party]], [[National Party (Poland)|National Party]], [[Labour Faction (1937)|Labor Party]], [[People's Party (Poland)|People's Party]], [[General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland|Jewish Bund]] and [[Poalei Zion]]. He also spoke to [[Anthony Eden]], the British foreign secretary, and included a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and Bełżec.<ref name="Karski 2013">Karski (2013)</ref><ref name="jankowski"/> |
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[[File:Warsaw Uprising by Deczkowki - Kolegium A -15861.jpg|thumb|right|Soldiers from [[w:pl: Kolegium A|Kolegium "A"]] of [[w:Kedyw|Kedyw]] on Stawki Street in [[w:Wola|Wola]] district |
[[File:Warsaw Uprising by Deczkowki - Kolegium A -15861.jpg|thumb|right|Soldiers from [[w:pl: Kolegium A|Kolegium "A"]] of [[w:Kedyw|Kedyw]] on Stawki Street in [[w:Wola|Wola]] district – [[Warsaw Uprising]] 1944]] |
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[[File:Jędrusie 3.jpg|thumb|right|Polish partisans from [[Kielce]] area |
[[File:Jędrusie 3.jpg|thumb|right|Polish partisans from [[Kielce]] area – unit "[[Jędrusie]]" 1945]] |
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[[File:Strp012 Jurgen Stroop report p5.jpg|thumb|Page 5 of [[Stroop Report]] describing German fight against "Juden mit polnischen Banditen" |
[[File:Strp012 Jurgen Stroop report p5.jpg|thumb|Page 5 of [[Stroop Report]] describing German fight against "Juden mit polnischen Banditen" – "Jews with Polish bandits".<ref>Jürgen Stroop, "Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!", Warsaw 1943</ref>]] |
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In early 1943 two Polish janitors<ref name="underground"/> of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide provided maps,<ref name="rcn"/> sketches and reports to Armia Krajowa Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the "rocket assembly hall', 'experimental pit', and 'launching tower'. When reconnaissance and intelligence information regarding the [[V-2]] rocket became convincing, the [[Churchill War Ministry|War Cabinet]] [[Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II#Cabinet Defence Committee (Operations)|Defence Committee (Operations)]] directed the campaign's first planned raid (the [[Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II|Operation Hydra bombing]] of [[Peenemünde]] in August 1943) and [[Operation Crossbow]].<ref name="ballistic"/> |
In early 1943 two Polish janitors<ref name="underground"/> of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide provided maps,<ref name="rcn"/> sketches and reports to Armia Krajowa Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the "rocket assembly hall', 'experimental pit', and 'launching tower'. When reconnaissance and intelligence information regarding the [[V-2]] rocket became convincing, the [[Churchill War Ministry|War Cabinet]] [[Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II#Cabinet Defence Committee (Operations)|Defence Committee (Operations)]] directed the campaign's first planned raid (the [[Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II|Operation Hydra bombing]] of [[Peenemünde]] in August 1943) and [[Operation Crossbow]].<ref name="ballistic"/> |
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In April 1943 the Germans began deporting the remaining Jews from the [[Warsaw ghetto]] provoking the [[Warsaw Ghetto Rising]], 19 April to 16 May. [[Polish Underground State]] ordered [[Ghetto Action]] |
In April 1943 the Germans began deporting the remaining Jews from the [[Warsaw ghetto]] provoking the [[Warsaw Ghetto Rising]], 19 April to 16 May. [[Polish Underground State]] ordered [[Ghetto Action]] – a series of combat actions carried out by the Home Army during the uprising between 19 April 1943 and May 16, 1943.<ref name="Strzembosz 1978, page 277-296">Strzembosz (1978), pp. 277–296.</ref> |
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Some units of the AK tried to assist the ghetto rising, but for the most part, the resistance was unprepared and unable to defeat the Germans. One Polish AK unit, the [[National Security Corps]] (''Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa''), under the command of [[Henryk Iwański]] ("Bystry"), fought inside the ghetto along with [[ŻZW]]. Subsequently, both groups retreated together (including 34 Jewish fighters). Although Iwański's action is the most well-known rescue mission, it was only one of many actions undertaken by the Polish resistance to help the Jewish fighters.<ref name="Korb"/> In one attack, three cell units of AK under the command of [[Captain (land)|Kapitan]] [[Józef Pszenny]] ("Chwacki") tried to breach the ghetto walls with explosives, but the Germans defeated this action.<ref name="underground"/> AK and GL engaged the Germans between 19 and 23 April at six different locations outside the ghetto walls, shooting at German sentries and positions and in one case attempting to blow up a gate.<ref name="underground"/><ref name="Strzembosz 1978, page 277-296"/> Participation of the Polish underground in the uprising was many times confirmed by [[Stroop Report|a report of the German commander]] |
Some units of the AK tried to assist the ghetto rising, but for the most part, the resistance was unprepared and unable to defeat the Germans. One Polish AK unit, the [[National Security Corps]] (''Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa''), under the command of [[Henryk Iwański]] ("Bystry"), fought inside the ghetto along with [[ŻZW]]. Subsequently, both groups retreated together (including 34 Jewish fighters). Although Iwański's action is the most well-known rescue mission, it was only one of many actions undertaken by the Polish resistance to help the Jewish fighters.<ref name="Korb"/> In one attack, three cell units of AK under the command of [[Captain (land)|Kapitan]] [[Józef Pszenny]] ("Chwacki") tried to breach the ghetto walls with explosives, but the Germans defeated this action.<ref name="underground"/> AK and GL engaged the Germans between 19 and 23 April at six different locations outside the ghetto walls, shooting at German sentries and positions and in one case attempting to blow up a gate.<ref name="underground"/><ref name="Strzembosz 1978, page 277-296"/> Participation of the Polish underground in the uprising was many times confirmed by [[Stroop Report|a report of the German commander]] – [[Jürgen Stroop]].<ref name="Stroop 1979">Stroop (1979)</ref> |
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{{blockquote|sign=|source=|When we invaded the Ghetto for the first time, the Jews and the Polish bandits succeeded in repelling the participating units, including tanks and armored cars, by a well-prepared concentration of fire. (...) The main Jewish battle group, mixed with Polish bandits, had already retired during the first and second day to the so-called Muranowski Square. There, it was reinforced by a considerable number of Polish bandits. Its plan was to hold the Ghetto by every means in order to prevent us from invading it. (...) Time and again Polish bandits found refuge in the Ghetto and remained there undisturbed, since we had no forces at our disposal to comb out this maze. (...) One such battle group succeeded in mounting a truck by ascending from a sewer in the so-called Prosta [Street], and in escaping with it (about 30 to 35 bandits). (...) The bandits and Jews – there were Polish bandits among these gangs armed with carbines, small arms, and in one case a light machine gun – mounted the truck and drove away in an unknown direction.<ref name="Stroop 1979"/>}} |
{{blockquote|sign=|source=|When we invaded the Ghetto for the first time, the Jews and the Polish bandits succeeded in repelling the participating units, including tanks and armored cars, by a well-prepared concentration of fire. (...) The main Jewish battle group, mixed with Polish bandits, had already retired during the first and second day to the so-called Muranowski Square. There, it was reinforced by a considerable number of Polish bandits. Its plan was to hold the Ghetto by every means in order to prevent us from invading it. (...) Time and again Polish bandits found refuge in the Ghetto and remained there undisturbed, since we had no forces at our disposal to comb out this maze. (...) One such battle group succeeded in mounting a truck by ascending from a sewer in the so-called Prosta [Street], and in escaping with it (about 30 to 35 bandits). (...) The bandits and Jews – there were Polish bandits among these gangs armed with carbines, small arms, and in one case a light machine gun – mounted the truck and drove away in an unknown direction.<ref name="Stroop 1979"/>}} |
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In November 1943, [[Operation Most III]] started. The Armia Krajowa provided the Allies with crucial intelligence on the German [[V-2 rocket]]. In effect some 50 kg of the most important parts of the captured V-2, as well as the final report, analyses, sketches and photos, were transported to [[Brindisi]] by a [[Royal Air Force]] [[Douglas Dakota]] aircraft. In late July 1944, the V-2 parts were delivered to London.<ref name="Strzembosz 1983"/><ref name="frederick"/> |
In November 1943, [[Operation Most III]] started. The Armia Krajowa provided the Allies with crucial intelligence on the German [[V-2 rocket]]. In effect some 50 kg of the most important parts of the captured V-2, as well as the final report, analyses, sketches and photos, were transported to [[Brindisi]] by a [[Royal Air Force]] [[Douglas Dakota]] aircraft. In late July 1944, the V-2 parts were delivered to London.<ref name="Strzembosz 1983"/><ref name="frederick"/> |
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In early 1943 the strength of the forest-based groups can be estimated at about 40 groups numbering in total 1,200 to 4,000 fighters, but the numbers grew significantly next year.<ref name="Leslie234-235">Roy Francis Leslie, ''The History of Poland Since 1863'', Cambridge University Press, 1983, {{ISBN| |
In early 1943 the strength of the forest-based groups can be estimated at about 40 groups numbering in total 1,200 to 4,000 fighters, but the numbers grew significantly next year.<ref name="Leslie234-235">Roy Francis Leslie, ''The History of Poland Since 1863'', Cambridge University Press, 1983, {{ISBN|0521275016}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0tYVKUsnw9IC&dq=%22Armia+Krajowa%22+largest&pg=PA234 Google Print, pp. 234]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=0tYVKUsnw9IC&q=politically+and+socially&pg=PA235 235]</ref> |
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[[File:AK-soldiers Parasol Regiment Warsaw Uprising 1944.jpg|thumb|150px|Polish resistance soldiers from [[Batalion Zośka]] during 1944 [[Warsaw Uprising]]]] |
[[File:AK-soldiers Parasol Regiment Warsaw Uprising 1944.jpg|thumb|150px|Polish resistance soldiers from [[Batalion Zośka]] during 1944 [[Warsaw Uprising]]]] |
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On 11 February 1944 the Resistance fighters of Polish [[Armia Krajowa|Home Army]]'s unit [[Batalion Parasol|Agat]] executed [[Franz Kutschera]], [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and [[Reich]]'s Police Chief in Warsaw in action known as [[Operation Kutschera]].<ref name="stachniewicz" /><ref name="stellvertretenden" /> In a reprisal of this action 27 February 140 inmates of |
On 11 February 1944 the Resistance fighters of Polish [[Armia Krajowa|Home Army]]'s unit [[Batalion Parasol|Agat]] executed [[Franz Kutschera]], [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and [[Reich]]'s Police Chief in Warsaw in action known as [[Operation Kutschera]].<ref name="stachniewicz" /><ref name="stellvertretenden" /> In a reprisal of this action 27 February 140 inmates of Pawiak{{snd}}Poles and Jews{{snd}}were shot in a public execution by the Germans. |
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13–14 May 1944 the [[Battle of Murowana Oszmianka]] the largest clash between the Polish anti-Nazi Armia Krajowa and the Nazi [[Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force]] a Lithuanian volunteer security force subordinated to [[Nazi Germany]].<ref name="Chiari" /> The battle took place in and near the village of Murowana Oszmianka in the ''[[Generalbezirk Litauen]]'' of ''[[Reichskommissariat Ostland]]''. The outcome of the battle was that the 301st LVR battalion was routed and the entire force was disbanded by the Germans soon afterwards.<ref name="Piotrowski" /> |
13–14 May 1944 the [[Battle of Murowana Oszmianka]] the largest clash between the Polish anti-Nazi Armia Krajowa and the Nazi [[Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force]] a Lithuanian volunteer security force subordinated to [[Nazi Germany]].<ref name="Chiari" /> The battle took place in and near the village of Murowana Oszmianka in the ''[[Generalbezirk Litauen]]'' of ''[[Reichskommissariat Ostland]]''. The outcome of the battle was that the 301st LVR battalion was routed and the entire force was disbanded by the Germans soon afterwards.<ref name="Piotrowski" /> |
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On 14 June 1944 the [[Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze]] took place between Polish and Russian partisans, numbering around 3,000, and the Nazi German units consisted of between 25,000 and 30,000 soldiers, with artillery, tanks and armored cars and air support.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} |
On 14 June 1944 the [[Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze]] took place between Polish and Russian partisans, numbering around 3,000, and the Nazi German units consisted of between 25,000 and 30,000 soldiers, with artillery, tanks and armored cars and air support.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} |
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On 25–26 June 1944 the [[Battle of Osuchy]] |
On 25–26 June 1944 the [[Battle of Osuchy]]{{snd}}one of the largest battles between the Polish resistance and Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II{{snd}}was fought, in what was essentially a continuation of the [[Zamość Uprising]].<ref name="google5" /> |
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In 1943 the Home Army built up its forces in preparation for a national uprising. The plan of national anti-Nazi uprising on areas of prewar Poland was code-named [[Operation Tempest]].<ref name="university6" /> Preparation began in late 1943 but the military actions started in 1944. Its most widely known elements were Operation Ostra Brama, Lwów Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising.<ref name="TB-K">[[Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]], |
In 1943 the Home Army built up its forces in preparation for a national uprising. The plan of national anti-Nazi uprising on areas of prewar Poland was code-named [[Operation Tempest]].<ref name="university6" /> Preparation began in late 1943 but the military actions started in 1944. Its most widely known elements were Operation Ostra Brama, Lwów Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising.<ref name="TB-K">[[Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]], ''The secret army'', London : Victor Gollancz, 1951.</ref><ref>[[Władysław Bartoszewski]] (1984). Dni Walczącej Stolicy: kronika Powstania Warszawskiego. Warsaw: Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego; Świat Książki. {{ISBN|978-8373916791}}.</ref><ref>[[Włodzimierz Borodziej]], (2006). ''The Warsaw Uprising of 1944''. Translated by Barbara Harshav. University of Wisconsin Press. {{ISBN|978-0299207304}}</ref><ref>[[Norman Davies]], (2004). ''Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw'', New York: Viking. {{ISBN|978-0670032846}}.</ref> |
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On 7 July, [[Operation Ostra Brama]] started. Approximately 12,500 Home Army soldiers attacked the German garrison and managed to seize most of the city center. Heavy street fighting in the outskirts of the city lasted until 14 July. In Vilnius' eastern suburbs, the Home Army units cooperated with reconnaissance groups of the Soviet [[3rd Belorussian Front]].<ref name="Ashworth" /> The [[Red Army]] entered the city on 15 July, and the [[NKVD]] started to intern all Polish soldiers. On 16 July, the HQ of the 3rd Belorussian Front invited Polish officers to a meeting and arrested them.<ref name="Joes" /><ref name="Peszke" /><ref name="Ciechanowski" /> |
On 7 July, [[Operation Ostra Brama]] started. Approximately 12,500 Home Army soldiers attacked the German garrison and managed to seize most of the city center. Heavy street fighting in the outskirts of the city lasted until 14 July. In Vilnius' eastern suburbs, the Home Army units cooperated with reconnaissance groups of the Soviet [[3rd Belorussian Front]].<ref name="Ashworth" /> The [[Red Army]] entered the city on 15 July, and the [[NKVD]] started to intern all Polish soldiers. On 16 July, the HQ of the 3rd Belorussian Front invited Polish officers to a meeting and arrested them.<ref name="Joes" /><ref name="Peszke" /><ref name="Ciechanowski" /> |
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[[File:Warsaw Uprising - Captured SdKfz 251 (1944).jpg|thumb|200px|"Gray Wolf" with Polish flag: German [[Sd.Kfz. 251]] armored vehicle captured by the 8th ''Krybar'' Regiment of the Warsaw resistance on 14 August 1944 from the [[5th SS Panzer Division Wiking|5th Wiking SS Panzer Division]]]] |
[[File:Warsaw Uprising - Captured SdKfz 251 (1944).jpg|thumb|200px|"Gray Wolf" with Polish flag: German [[Sd.Kfz. 251]] armored vehicle captured by the 8th ''Krybar'' Regiment of the Warsaw resistance on 14 August 1944 from the [[5th SS Panzer Division Wiking|5th Wiking SS Panzer Division]]]] |
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On 23 July the [[Lwów Uprising]] |
On 23 July the [[Lwów Uprising]]{{snd}}the armed struggle started by the Armia Krajowa against the Nazi occupiers in [[Lwów]] during World War II{{snd}}started. It started in July 1944 as a part of a plan of all-national uprising codenamed Operation Tempest. The fighting lasted until 27 July and resulted in liberation of the city.<ref name="lwowskiej" /> However, shortly afterwards the Polish soldiers were arrested by the invading Soviets and either forced to join the Red Army or sent to the [[Gulag]]s. The city itself was occupied by the Soviet Union.<ref name="tomaszewski" /> |
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In August 1944, as the Soviet armed forces approached Warsaw, the government in exile called for an uprising in the city, so that they could return to a liberated Warsaw and try to prevent a communist take-over. The AK, led by [[Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]], launched the [[Warsaw Uprising]].<ref name="underground7" /> Soviet forces were less than 20 km away but on the orders of Soviet High Command they gave no assistance. Stalin described the uprising as a "criminal adventure". The Poles appealed to the Western Allies for help. The [[Royal Air Force]], and the Polish Air Force based in Italy, dropped some munitions, but it was almost impossible for the Allies to help the Poles without Soviet assistance. |
In August 1944, as the Soviet armed forces approached Warsaw, the government in exile called for an uprising in the city, so that they could return to a liberated Warsaw and try to prevent a communist take-over. The AK, led by [[Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski]], launched the [[Warsaw Uprising]].<ref name="underground7" /> Soviet forces were less than 20 km away but on the orders of Soviet High Command they gave no assistance. Stalin described the uprising as a "criminal adventure". The Poles appealed to the Western Allies for help. The [[Royal Air Force]], and the Polish Air Force based in Italy, dropped some munitions, but it was almost impossible for the Allies to help the Poles without Soviet assistance. |
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In March 1945, a [[staged trial]] of 16 leaders of the [[Polish Underground State]] held by the [[Soviet Union]] took place in [[Moscow]] |
In March 1945, a [[staged trial]] of 16 leaders of the [[Polish Underground State]] held by the [[Soviet Union]] took place in [[Moscow]] – ([[Trial of the Sixteen]]).<ref name="prazmowska"/><ref name="autogenerated1">[[George Malcher|Malcher, G.C.]] (1993) ''Blank Pages'' Pyrford Press {{ISBN|1897984006}}. p. 73.</ref><ref name="mikolajczyk"/><ref name="garlinski"/> The [[Government Delegate's Office at Home|Government Delegate]], together with most members of the [[Council of National Unity]] and the [[C-i-C]] of the [[Armia Krajowa]], were invited by Soviet general [[Ivan Serov]] with agreement of [[Joseph Stalin]] to a conference on their eventual entry to the Soviet-backed Provisional Government. They were presented with a warrant of safety, yet they were arrested in [[Pruszków]] by the [[NKVD]] on 27 and 28 March.<ref name="prazmowska8"/><ref name="university9"/> [[Leopold Okulicki]], [[Jan Stanisław Jankowski]] and [[Kazimierz Pużak]] were arrested on 27th with 12 more the next day. A. Zwierzynski had been arrested earlier. They were brought to Moscow for interrogation in the Lubyanka.<ref name="garlinski10"/><ref name="umiastowski"/><ref name="piesakowski"/> After several months of brutal interrogation and torture,<ref name="garlinski11"/> they were presented with the forged accusations of "[[collaboration]] with [[Nazi Germany]]" and "planning a military alliance with Nazi Germany".<ref name="garlinski12"/><ref name="umiastowski13"/> |
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In the latter years of the war, there were [[Soviet partisans in Poland|increasing conflicts between Polish and Soviet partisans]]. [[Cursed soldiers]] continued to oppose the Soviets long after the war. The last cursed soldier |
In the latter years of the war, there were [[Soviet partisans in Poland|increasing conflicts between Polish and Soviet partisans]]. [[Cursed soldiers]] continued to oppose the Soviets long after the war. The last cursed soldier – member of the militant [[Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953)|anti-communist resistance in Poland]] was [[Józef Franczak]] who was killed with pistol in his hand by [[ZOMO]] in 1963.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} |
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On 5 May 1945 in [[Bohemia]], the [[Narodowe Siły Zbrojne]] brigade liberated prisoners from a Nazi [[concentration camp]] in [[Holiszowo]], including 280 Jewish women prisoners.<ref name="lukas"/> The brigade suffered heavy casualties.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} |
On 5 May 1945 in [[Bohemia]], the [[Narodowe Siły Zbrojne]] brigade liberated prisoners from a Nazi [[concentration camp]] in [[Holiszowo]], including 280 Jewish women prisoners.<ref name="lukas"/> The brigade suffered heavy casualties.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} |
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On 7 May 1945 in the village of [[Kuryłówka]], southeastern Poland, the [[Battle of Kuryłówka]] started. It was the biggest battle in the history of the [[Cursed soldiers]] organization |
On 7 May 1945 in the village of [[Kuryłówka]], southeastern Poland, the [[Battle of Kuryłówka]] started. It was the biggest battle in the history of the [[Cursed soldiers]] organization – [[National Military Alliance]] (NZW). In battle against Soviet Union's [[NKVD]] units anti-communist partisans shot 70 NKVD agents. The battle ended in a victory for the underground Polish forces.<ref name="victory"/> |
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On 21 May 1945, a unit of the Armia Krajowa, led by Colonel [[Edward Wasilewski]], [[Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertów|attacked a NKVD camp in Rembertów]] on the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. The Soviets kept there hundreds of Poles,<ref name="Davies0"/><ref name="Davies1"/><ref name="Davies2"/> members of the Home Army,<ref name="Piotrowski1"/> whom they were systematically [[Sybiraks|deporting to Siberia]]. However, this action of the [[Cursed soldiers|pro-independence Polish resistance]] freed all Polish political prisoners from the camp. Between 1944 and 1946, cursed soldiers attacked many communist prisons in Soviet-occupied Poland |
On 21 May 1945, a unit of the Armia Krajowa, led by Colonel [[Edward Wasilewski]], [[Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertów|attacked a NKVD camp in Rembertów]] on the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. The Soviets kept there hundreds of Poles,<ref name="Davies0"/><ref name="Davies1"/><ref name="Davies2"/> members of the Home Army,<ref name="Piotrowski1"/> whom they were systematically [[Sybiraks|deporting to Siberia]]. However, this action of the [[Cursed soldiers|pro-independence Polish resistance]] freed all Polish political prisoners from the camp. Between 1944 and 1946, cursed soldiers attacked many communist prisons in Soviet-occupied Poland {{snd}}see [[Raids on communist prisons in Poland (1944–1946)]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} |
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From 10 to 25 June 1945, [[Augustów chase 1945]] (the Polish ''Obława augustowska'') took place. It was a large-scale operation undertaken by Soviet forces of the [[Red Army]], the [[NKVD]] and [[SMERSH]], with the assistance of Polish [[Urząd Bezpieczeństwa|UB]] and [[Ludowe Wojsko Polskie|LWP]] units against [[Cursed soldiers|former Armia Krajowa soldiers]] in the [[Suwałki]] and [[Augustów]] region in Poland. The operation also covered territory in occupied [[Lithuania]]. More than 2,000 alleged Polish [[anticommunism|anticommunist]] fighters were captured and detained in Russian [[Internment|internment camps]]. 600 of the "Augustów Missing" are presumed dead and buried in an unknown location in the present territory of Russia. The Augustów Roundup was part of an anti-guerilla operation in Lithuania. |
From 10 to 25 June 1945, [[Augustów chase 1945]] (the Polish ''Obława augustowska'') took place. It was a large-scale operation undertaken by Soviet forces of the [[Red Army]], the [[NKVD]] and [[SMERSH]], with the assistance of Polish [[Urząd Bezpieczeństwa|UB]] and [[Ludowe Wojsko Polskie|LWP]] units against [[Cursed soldiers|former Armia Krajowa soldiers]] in the [[Suwałki]] and [[Augustów]] region in Poland. The operation also covered territory in occupied [[Lithuania]]. More than 2,000 alleged Polish [[anticommunism|anticommunist]] fighters were captured and detained in Russian [[Internment|internment camps]]. 600 of the "Augustów Missing" are presumed dead and buried in an unknown location in the present territory of Russia. The Augustów Roundup was part of an anti-guerilla operation in Lithuania. |
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'''a''' {{Note label|a|a|none}} A number of sources note that the Home Army, representing the bulk of Polish resistance, was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. [[Norman Davies]] writes that the "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK,... could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance [organizations]."<ref name="Davies2005">{{cite book|author=Norman Davies|title=God's Playground: 1795 to the present|url=https://archive.org/details/godsplaygroundhi00norm_0|url-access=registration|access-date=30 May 2012|date=28 February 2005|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978- |
'''a''' {{Note label|a|a|none}} A number of sources note that the Home Army, representing the bulk of Polish resistance, was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. [[Norman Davies]] writes that the "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK,... could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance [organizations]."<ref name="Davies2005">{{cite book|author=Norman Davies|title=God's Playground: 1795 to the present|url=https://archive.org/details/godsplaygroundhi00norm_0|url-access=registration|access-date=30 May 2012|date=28 February 2005|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231128193|page=[https://archive.org/details/godsplaygroundhi00norm_0/page/344 344]}}</ref> [[Gregor Dallas]] writes that the "Home Army (Armia Krajowa or AK) in late 1943 numbered around 400,000, making it the largest resistance organization in Europe."<ref>Gregor Dallas, ''1945: The War That Never Ended'', Yale University Press, 2005, {{ISBN|0300109806}}, [https://archive.org/details/1945warthatnever00dall_1/page/79 <!-- quote="Armia Krajowa" largest. --> Google Print, p. 79] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219191526/https://books.google.com/books?id=LXdVF6LmTa8C&pg=PA79&dq=%22Armia+Krajowa%22+largest&as_brr=3&ei=RjvMR6KnPJPAzAT-ppWvCQ&sig=Ksba8pTs5pu55YiAqseCLy6Kl5k |date=19 December 2016 }}</ref> [[Mark Wyman]] writes that the "Armia Krajowa was considered the largest underground resistance unit in wartime Europe."<ref name=Wyman>Mark Wyman, ''DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–1951'', Cornell University Press, 1998, {{ISBN|0801485428}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110511143721/http://books.google.com/books?id=lHNw7MnsmlYC&pg=PA34&dq=%22Armia+Krajowa%22+largest&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=NzzMR_mOIJGSzQSb7cSwCQ&sig=kv3oN5z3YgAgcT8Vgy4aIFRHknE Google Print, p. 34]</ref> The numbers of [[Soviet partisans]] were very similar to those of the Polish resistance.<ref>See, for example, Leonid D. Grenkevich, ''The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941–44: A Critical Historiographical Analysis'', p. 229, and [[Walter Laqueur]], ''The Guerilla Reader: A Historical Anthology'', New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990, p. 233.</ref> |
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<ref name="Baczynska">{{cite news|last=Baczynska|first=Gabriela|author2=JonBoyle|title=Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies|newspaper=Washington Post|date=12 May 2008|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051200522.html|access-date=12 May 2008}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |
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<ref name="Chiari">{{cite book | author=Bernard Chiari |author2=Jerzy Kochanowski | title=Die polnische Heimatarmee: Geschichte und Mythos der Armia Krajowa seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg | year=2003 | pages=630–631 | publisher=Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt; Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag | location=Munich | isbn=978-3486567151 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vC2HudUgX0C&q=Die+polnische+Heimatarmee:+Geschichte+und+Mythos+der+Armia+Krajowa+seit+dem+Zweiten+Weltkrieg&pg=PA807 | access-date=18 March 2008 |language=de}}</ref> |
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<ref name="Ciechanowski">{{cite book |author=Jan M. Ciechanowski |title=The Warsaw Rising of 1944 |year=2002 |pages=206–208 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978- |
<ref name="Ciechanowski">{{cite book |author=Jan M. Ciechanowski |title=The Warsaw Rising of 1944 |year=2002 |pages=206–208 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521894418 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kvvMiclgVMC&q=Wilno+uprising+1944&pg=PA207 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="Davies0">[[Norman Davies]], ''[[Rising '44]]'', 2004, Viking Penguin, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="Davies0">[[Norman Davies]], ''[[Rising '44]]'', 2004, Viking Penguin, {{ISBN|0670032840}}, p. 495</ref> |
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<ref name="Davies1">[[Norman Davies]], ''[[Rising '44]]'', 2003, Macmillan, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="Davies1">[[Norman Davies]], ''[[Rising '44]]'', 2003, Macmillan, {{ISBN|0333905687}}, p. 495</ref> |
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<ref name="Davies2">[[Norman Davies]], ''[[Rising '44]]'', 2004, Pan, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="Davies2">[[Norman Davies]], ''[[Rising '44]]'', 2004, Pan, {{ISBN|0330488635}}, p. 497</ref> |
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<ref name="Joes">{{cite book|author=[[Anthony James Joes]] |title=Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency |year=2004 |page=47 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978- |
<ref name="Joes">{{cite book|author=[[Anthony James Joes]] |title=Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency |year=2004 |page=47 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0813123394 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoCsbXb03bUC&q=Wilno+uprising+1944&pg=PA47 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="Korb">[[Stefan Korbonski]], ''"The Polish Underground State: A Guide to the Underground, |
<ref name="Korb">[[Stefan Korbonski]], ''"The Polish Underground State: A Guide to the Underground, 1939–1945"'', pp. 120–139, [http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/eehistory/H200Readings/Topic4-R3.html Excerpts] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927072018/http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/eehistory/H200Readings/Topic4-R3.html |date=27 September 2011 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="MNKcited">Bohdan Kwiatkowski, Sabotaż i dywersja, Bellona, London 1949, vol.1, p.21; as cited by Marek Ney-Krwawicz, [http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/2%20Article.htm The Polish Underground State and The Home Army ( |
<ref name="MNKcited">Bohdan Kwiatkowski, Sabotaż i dywersja, Bellona, London 1949, vol. 1, p. 21; as cited by Marek Ney-Krwawicz, [http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/2%20Article.htm The Polish Underground State and The Home Army (1939–45)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824034513/http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/2%20Article.htm |date=24 August 2016 }}. Translated from Polish by Antoni Bohdanowicz. Article on the pages of the London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association. Retrieved 14 March 2008.</ref> |
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<ref name="Peszke">{{cite book |author=Michael Alfred Peszke |title=The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II |year=2004 |page=146 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978- |
<ref name="Peszke">{{cite book |author=Michael Alfred Peszke |title=The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II |year=2004 |page=146 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0786420094|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zhb2doihL1wC&q=Wilno+uprising+1944&pg=PA146 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="Piotrowski">{{cite book | author =[[Tadeusz Piotrowski (sociologist)|Tadeusz Piotrowski]] | title =Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide… | year =1997 | pages =165–166 | publisher =McFarland & Company | isbn =978-0786403714| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=A4FlatJCro4C&q=1939+Soviet+citizenship+Poland&pg=PA166 | access-date =15 March 2008 }} See also [http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Resources/BookReviews/jessica.htm review] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629164531/http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Resources/BookReviews/jessica.htm |date=29 June 2016 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="Piotrowski1">Tadeusz Piotrowsk, ''Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, |
<ref name="Piotrowski1">Tadeusz Piotrowsk, ''Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947'', McFarland & Company, 1998, {{ISBN|0786403713}}, p. 131 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20121112095301/http://books.google.com/books?id=hC0-dk7vpM8C&pg=PA131&dq=1945+Rembert%C3%B3w+NKVD&ei=y0zYRtyZOoWY7wKW9ZHnBg&sig=ceQemsSxfhJtGQrQvaMS1bE4Djo Google Print] )</ref> |
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<ref name="aleksander">[[Aleksander Kamiński]] ''Kamienie na szaniec'' {{ISBN| |
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<ref name="auschwitz">[[Adam Cyra]], Ochotnik do Auschwitz |
<ref name="auschwitz">[[Adam Cyra]], ''Ochotnik do Auschwitz – Witold Pilecki 1901–1948'' [''Volunteer for Auschwitz''], Oświęcim 2000. {{ISBN|8391200035}}</ref> |
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<ref name="ballistic">Michael J.Neufeld |
<ref name="ballistic">Michael J. Neufeld ''The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era'' New York 1995, The Free Press {{ISBN?}}</ref> |
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<ref name="concentration">Jozef Garlinski, Fighting Auschwitz: the Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp, Fawcett, 1975, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="concentration">Jozef Garlinski, ''Fighting Auschwitz: the Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp'', Fawcett, 1975, {{ISBN|0449225992}}, reprinted by Time Life Education, 1993. {{ISBN|0809489252}}</ref> |
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<ref name="garlinski10">Garlinski, J. (1985) ''Poland in the Second World War'' Macmillan {{ISBN|0333392582}} pp. 325–326</ref> |
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<ref name="garlinski11">Garlinski, J.(1985) ''Poland in the Second World War'' Macmillan {{ISBN| |
<ref name="garlinski11">Garlinski, J. (1985) ''Poland in the Second World War'' Macmillan {{ISBN|0333392582}} p. 335</ref> |
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<ref name="garlinski12">Garlinski, J.(1985) ''Poland in the Second World War'' Macmillan {{ISBN| |
<ref name="garlinski12">Garlinski, J. (1985) ''Poland in the Second World War'' Macmillan {{ISBN|0333392582}} p. 336</ref> |
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<ref name="google">Richard C. Lukas, |
<ref name="google">Richard C. Lukas, ''Out of the inferno: Poles remember the Holocaust'', University Press of Kentucky, 1989, p. 5, {{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id%3Dlz9obsxmuW4C%26pg%3DPA5%26dq%3DUnion+for+Armed+Struggle+Home+Army |title=Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust|via= Google Books |access-date=2015-07-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504030647/https://books.google.com/books?id=lz9obsxmuW4C&pg=PA5&dq=Union+for+Armed+Struggle+Home+Army |archive-date=4 May 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref> |
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<ref name="google1">Jan Kamienski, ''Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within'', Dundurn Press Ltd., 2008, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="google1">Jan Kamienski, ''Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within'', Dundurn Press Ltd., 2008, {{ISBN|1550028545}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RNmvWjeB36wC&dq=Poland+%22small+sabotage%22&pg=PT56 Chapter "Messenger work and small sabotage", p. 57] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512001635/https://books.google.com/books?id=RNmvWjeB36wC&lpg=PT60&dq=Poland%20%22small%20sabotage%22&as_brr=3&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=Poland%20%22small%20sabotage%22&f=false |date=12 May 2016 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="google3">Joseph Poprzeczny, ''Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East'', McFarland, 2004, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="google3">Joseph Poprzeczny, ''Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East'', McFarland, 2004, {{ISBN|0786416254}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130527075436/http://books.google.com/books?id=gjOO6ui8SIkC&pg=PA110&vq=Zamosc&dq=%22Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87+Uprising%22+-wikipedia&source=gbs_search_s&sig=YlJNpg9GF1yU8bl99WYizvmGUys Google Print, pp. 110–111]</ref> |
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<ref name="google5">Martin Gilbert, ''Second World War A Complete History'', Holt Paperbacks, 2004, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="google5">Martin Gilbert, ''Second World War A Complete History'', Holt Paperbacks, 2004, {{ISBN|0805076239}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xxdTZE2zREMC&q=osuchy&pg=RA4-PA542 Google Print, p. 542] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519021101/https://books.google.com/books?id=xxdTZE2zREMC&pg=RA4-PA542&vq=osuchy&dq=Osuchy&as_brr=3&sig=eCCdHLUNRN7xjHiSVUwqK72T-To |date=19 May 2016 }}</ref> |
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<ref name="hoh">Hershel Edelheit, ''History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary'', Westview Press, 1994, {{ISBN| |
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<ref name="intelligence">Tessa Stirling ''et al.'', ''Intelligence Co-operation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II'', vol. I: ''The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee'', London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2005</ref> |
<ref name="intelligence">Tessa Stirling ''et al.'', ''Intelligence Co-operation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II'', vol. I: ''The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee'', London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2005</ref> |
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<ref name="ipn">Lidia Świerczek, [http://en.pilecki.ipn.gov.pl/portal/rpe/1025/8193/Rotamaster_Witold_Pilecki.html Pilecki`s life] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612021802/http://en.pilecki.ipn.gov.pl/portal/rpe/1025/8193/Rotamaster_Witold_Pilecki.html |date=12 June 2013 }} [[Institute of National Remembrance]]. Last accessed on 14 March 2009.</ref> |
<ref name="ipn">Lidia Świerczek, [http://en.pilecki.ipn.gov.pl/portal/rpe/1025/8193/Rotamaster_Witold_Pilecki.html Pilecki`s life] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612021802/http://en.pilecki.ipn.gov.pl/portal/rpe/1025/8193/Rotamaster_Witold_Pilecki.html |date=12 June 2013 }} [[Institute of National Remembrance]]. Last accessed on 14 March 2009.</ref> |
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<ref name="jankowski">E. Thomas Wood & Stanisław M. Jankowski (1994). Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. John Wiley & Sons Inc. {{ISBN| |
<ref name="jankowski">E. Thomas Wood & Stanisław M. Jankowski (1994). ''Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust''. John Wiley & Sons Inc. {{ISBN|0471018562}}</ref> |
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<ref name="konfederacja">Kazimierz Malinowski, Tajna Armia Polska. Znak. Konfederacja Zbrojna. Zarys genezy, organizacji i działalności, Warszawa 1986. {{ISBN| |
<ref name="konfederacja">Kazimierz Malinowski, Tajna Armia Polska. Znak. Konfederacja Zbrojna. Zarys genezy, organizacji i działalności, Warszawa 1986. {{ISBN|8321107915}}</ref> |
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<ref name="lukas">Antonin Bohun Dabrowski in "Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust" edited by Richard Lukas, |
<ref name="lukas">Antonin Bohun Dabrowski in "Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust" edited by Richard Lukas, p 22. {{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id%3Dlz9obsxmuW4C%26pg%3DPA22%26dq%3DHoliszow#PPA22,M1 |title=Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust|via= Google Books |access-date=2015-07-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603152731/https://books.google.com/books?id=lz9obsxmuW4C&pg=PA22&dq=Holiszow |archive-date=3 June 2016 |df=dmy }}</ref> |
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<ref name="lwowskiej">Jerzy Węgierski "W lwowskiej Armii Krajowej" PAX, Warszawa 1989 {{ISBN| |
<ref name="lwowskiej">Jerzy Węgierski "W lwowskiej Armii Krajowej" PAX, Warszawa 1989 {{ISBN|8321110444}}</ref> |
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<ref name="mikolajczyk">Mikolajczyk, S. (1948) ''The pattern of Soviet domination'' Sampson Low, Marston & Co |
<ref name="mikolajczyk">Mikolajczyk, S. (1948) ''The pattern of Soviet domination'' Sampson Low, Marston & Co p. 125</ref> |
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<ref name="militaryhistorypress">{{cite web|url=http://www.militaryhistorypress.com/PolishPartisanStory.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723212730/http://www.militaryhistorypress.com/PolishPartisanStory.html|url-status=dead|title=Aleksandra Ziółkowska Boehm: |
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<ref name="occupation">''Forgotten Holocaust. The Poles under German Occupation 1939–1944'' Richard C. Lukas Hippocrene Books, New York 1997, {{ISBN|0781809010}}</ref> |
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<ref name="piechowski">"Byłem Numerem: swiadectwa Z Auschwitz" by Kazimierz Piechowski, Eugenia Bozena Kodecka-Kaczynska, Michal Ziokowski, Hardcover, Wydawn. Siostr Loretanek, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="piechowski">"Byłem Numerem: swiadectwa Z Auschwitz" by Kazimierz Piechowski, Eugenia Bozena Kodecka-Kaczynska, Michal Ziokowski, Hardcover, Wydawn. Siostr Loretanek, {{ISBN|8372571228}}</ref> |
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<ref name="piesakowski">Piesakowski, T. (1990) ''The fate of Poles in the USSR 1939~1989'' Gryf |
<ref name="piesakowski">Piesakowski, T. (1990) ''The fate of Poles in the USSR 1939~1989'' Gryf pp. 198–199</ref> |
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<ref name="poprzeczny">Joseph Poprzeczny, ''Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East'', McFarland, 2004, {{ISBN| |
<ref name="poprzeczny">Joseph Poprzeczny, ''Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East'', McFarland, 2004, {{ISBN|0786416254}}</ref> |
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<ref name="prazmowska">Prazmowska, A. (2004) ''Civil war in Poland, |
<ref name="prazmowska">Prazmowska, A. (2004) ''Civil war in Poland, 1942–1948'' Palgrave {{ISBN|0333982126}} p. 115</ref> |
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<ref name="prazmowska8">Prazmowska, A. (2004) ''Civil war in Poland, |
<ref name="prazmowska8">Prazmowska, A. (2004) ''Civil war in Poland, 1942–1948'' Palgrave {{ISBN|0333982126}} p. 116</ref> |
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<ref name="stachniewicz">Piotr Stachniewicz, "AKCJA "KUTSCHERA", Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1982,</ref> |
<ref name="stachniewicz">Piotr Stachniewicz, "AKCJA "KUTSCHERA", Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1982,</ref> |
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<ref name="stellvertretenden">Joachim Lilla (Bearb.): ''Die Stellvertretenden Gauleiter und die Vertretung der Gauleiter der NSDAP im „Dritten Reich“'', Koblenz 2003, S. |
<ref name="stellvertretenden">Joachim Lilla (Bearb.): ''Die Stellvertretenden Gauleiter und die Vertretung der Gauleiter der NSDAP im „Dritten Reich“'', Koblenz 2003, S. 52–53 (Materialien aus dem Bundesarchiv, Heft 13){{ISBN|3865090206}}</ref> |
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<ref name="symbolika">Lesław J. Welker "Symbolika znaków Polski Walczącej", publisher Adam Marszałek {{ISBN| |
<ref name="symbolika">Lesław J. Welker "Symbolika znaków Polski Walczącej", publisher Adam Marszałek {{ISBN|8371744986|8373220909}}</ref> |
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<ref name="szymanski">Marek Szymanski: ''Oddzial majora Hubala'', Warszawa, 1999, {{ISBN|8391223701}}</ref> |
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<ref name="tomaszewski">Bolesław Tomaszewski, Jerzy Węgierski "Zarys historii lwowskiego obszaru ZWZ-AK" Warsaw 1987 Pokolenie</ref> |
<ref name="tomaszewski">Bolesław Tomaszewski, Jerzy Węgierski "Zarys historii lwowskiego obszaru ZWZ-AK" Warsaw 1987 Pokolenie</ref> |
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<ref name="umiastowski">Umiastowski, R. (1946) ''Poland, Russia and Great Britain |
<ref name="umiastowski">Umiastowski, R. (1946) ''Poland, Russia and Great Britain 1941–1945'' Hollis & Carter pp. 462–464</ref> |
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<ref name="umiastowski13">Umiastowski, R. (1946) ''Poland, Russia and Great Britain |
<ref name="umiastowski13">Umiastowski, R. (1946) ''Poland, Russia and Great Britain 1941–1945'' Hollis & Carter pp. 467–468</ref> |
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<ref name="underground">Józef Garliński |
<ref name="underground">Józef Garliński ''Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War against the V1 and V2'', Times Books, New York 1978</ref> |
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<ref name="underground7">''Polish Underground State – a Guide to the Underground, 1939–1945'' Columbia University Press, 1978 and Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York, 1981</ref> |
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<ref name="university">[[Norman Davies]], ''Europe: A History'', Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN</ref> |
<ref name="university">[[Norman Davies]], ''Europe: A History'', Oxford University Press, 1996, {{ISBN?}}</ref> |
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<ref name="university6">[[Włodzimierz Borodziej]], Barbara Harshav (transl.), ''The Warsaw uprising of 1944.'' University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.</ref> |
<ref name="university6">[[Włodzimierz Borodziej]], Barbara Harshav (transl.), ''The Warsaw uprising of 1944.'' University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.</ref> |
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<ref name="university9">Michta, A. (1990) ''Red Eagle'' Stanford University {{ISBN| |
<ref name="university9">Michta, A. (1990) ''Red Eagle'' Stanford University {{ISBN|0817988629}} p. 39</ref> |
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<ref name="victory">Norman Davies, "[[Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory]]", Viking Penguin 2006</ref> |
<ref name="victory">Norman Davies, "[[Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory]]", Viking Penguin 2006</ref> |
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<ref name="warszawa">Jan Bijata, Wawer, Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1973</ref> |
<ref name="warszawa">Jan Bijata, Wawer, Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1973</ref> |
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<ref name="wspomnienia">Halina Auderska, Zygmunt Ziółek, ''Akcja N. Wspomnienia |
<ref name="wspomnienia">Halina Auderska, Zygmunt Ziółek, ''Akcja N. Wspomnienia 1939–1945'' (''Action N. Memoirs 1939–1945''), Wydawnictwo Czytelnik, Warszawa, 1972 {{in lang|pl}}</ref> |
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* {{cite book| last = Strzembosz | first = Tomasz | title = Akcje zbrojne podziemnej Warszawy 1939–1944|trans-title=Armed actions of underground Warsaw 1939–1944| publisher = Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy | location = Warsaw | year = 1978| language = pl | isbn = 978-8306007176}} |
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* {{cite book | last = Stroop | first = Juergen | author1-link =Juergen Stroop | translator-first =Sybil|translator-last= Milton | title =The Stroop Report: "The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is No More!" | url = https://archive.org/details/stroopreportj00stro | url-access = registration | year =1979 | publisher = Pantheon | location =New York| isbn = 9780394504438 }} |
* {{cite book | last = Stroop | first = Juergen | author1-link =Juergen Stroop | translator-first =Sybil|translator-last= Milton | title =The Stroop Report: "The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is No More!" | url = https://archive.org/details/stroopreportj00stro | url-access = registration | year =1979 | publisher = Pantheon | location =New York| isbn = 9780394504438 }} |
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* {{cite book| last = Karski | first = Jan | title = Story of a secret state. My Report to the World| publisher = Georgetown University Press | location = Washington DC | year = 2013| isbn = 9781589019836}} |
* {{cite book| last = Karski | first = Jan | title = Story of a secret state. My Report to the World| publisher = Georgetown University Press | location = Washington DC | year = 2013| isbn = 9781589019836}} |
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In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines to the Eastern Front (damaging or destroying 1/8 of all rail transports), and providing intelligence reports to the British intelligence agencies (providing 43% of all reports from occupied Europe). It was a part of the Polish Underground State.
Organizations
The largest of all Polish resistance organizations was the Armia Krajowa (Home Army, AK), loyal to the Polish government in exile in London. The AK was formed in 1942 from the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej or ZWZ, itself created in 1939) and would eventually incorporate most other Polish armed resistance groups (except for the communists and some far-right groups).[2][3] It was the military arm of the Polish Underground State and loyal to the Polish government in Exile.[2]
Most of the other Polish underground armed organizations were created by a political party or faction, and included:
- The Bataliony Chłopskie (Peasants' Battalions). Created by the leftist People's Party around 1940–1941, it would partially merge with AK around 1942–1943.[4]
- The Gwardia Ludowa WRN (People's Guard of WRN) of Polish Socialist Party (PPS) (joined ZWZ around 1940, subsequently merged into AK)[5][6]
- The Konfederacja Narodu (Confederation of the Nation). Created in 1940 by far-right Obóz Narodowo Radykalny-Falanga (National Radical Camp Falanga).[7] It would partially merge with ZWZ around 1941 and finally join AK around fall 1943.
- The Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa (National Military Organisation), established by the National Party in 1939, mostly integrated with AK around 1942.[8]
- Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (National Armed Forces); created in 1943 from dissatisfied NOW units, which refused to be subordinated to the AK.[8][9][10]
- The Obóz Polski Walczącej (Camp of Fighting Poland), established by the Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego (Camp of National Unity) around 1942, subordinated to AK.[11] in 1943.
The largest groups that refused to join the AK were the National Armed Forces and the pro-Soviet and communist People's Army (Polish Armia Ludowa or AL), backed by the Soviet Union and established by the Polish Workers' Party (Polish Polska Partia Robotnicza or PPR).[12]
"Within the framework of the entire enemy intelligence operations directed against Germany, the intelligence service of the Polish resistance movement assumed major significance. The scope and importance of the operations of the Polish resistance movement, which was ramified down to the smallest splinter group and brilliantly organized, have been in (various sources) disclosed in connection with carrying out of major police security operations." Heinrich Himmler, 31 December 1942[13]
Size
In February 1942, when AK was formed, it numbered about 100,000 members.[3] In the beginning of 1943, it had reached a strength of about 200,000.[3] In the summer of 1944 when Operation Tempest began, AK reached its highest membership numbers, though the estimates vary from 300,000[14] to 500,000.[15] The strength of the second largest resistance organization, Bataliony Chłopskie (Peasants' Battalions), can be estimated for summer 1944 (at which time they were mostly merged with AK[4]) at about 160,000 men.[16] The third largest group include NSZ (National Armed Forces) with approximately 70,000 men around 1943–1944; only small parts of that force were merged with AK.[9] At its height in 1944, the communist Armia Ludowa, which never merged with AK, numbered about 30,000 people.[12] One estimate for the summer 1944 strength of AK and its allies, including NSZ, gives its strength at 650,000.[1] Overall, the Polish resistance have often been described as the largest or one of the largest resistance organizations in World War II Europe.[a]
Actions, operations, and intelligence, 1939–1945
1939
On 9 November 1939, two soldiers of the Polish army – Witold Pilecki and Major Jan Włodarkiewicz – founded the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska, TAP), one of the first underground organizations in Poland after defeat.[17] Pilecki became its organizational commander as TAP expanded to cover not only Warsaw but Siedlce, Radom, Lublin and other major cities of central Poland.[18] By 1940, TAP had approximately 8,000 men (more than half of them armed), some 20 machine guns and several anti-tank rifles. Later, the organization was incorporated into the Union for Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej), later renamed and better known as the Home Army (Armia Krajowa).[19]
1940
In March 1940, a partisan unit of the first guerrilla commanders in the Second World War in Europe under Major Henryk Dobrzański "Hubal" destroyed a battalion of German infantry in a skirmish near the village of Huciska. A few days later in an ambush near the village of Szałasy it inflicted heavy casualties upon another German unit. To counter this threat the German authorities formed a special 1,000 men strong counter-insurgency unit of combined SS–Wehrmacht forces, including a Panzer group. Although the unit of Major Dobrzański never exceeded 300 men, the Germans fielded at least 8,000 men in the area to secure it.[20][21]
In 1940, Witold Pilecki, an intelligence officer for the Polish resistance, presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp, gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance.[22] The Home Army approved this plan, provided him a false identity card, and on 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a street roundup (łapanka) in Warsaw and was caught by the Germans along with other civilians and sent to Auschwitz. In the camp he organized the underground organization – Związek Organizacji Wojskowej – ZOW.[23] From October 1940, ZOW sent its first report about the camp and the genocide in November 1940 to Home Army Headquarters in Warsaw through the resistance network organized in Auschwitz.[24]
During the night of 21–22 January 1940, in the Soviet-occupied Podolian town of Czortków, the Czortków Uprising started; it was the first Polish uprising during World War II. Anti-Soviet Poles, most of them teenagers from local high schools, stormed the local Red Army barracks and a prison, in order to release Polish soldiers kept there.
At the end of 1940 Aleksander Kamiński created a Polish youth resistance organization, known as "Wawer".[25] It was part of the Szare Szeregi (the underground Polish Scouting Association). This organisation carried out many minor sabotage operations in occupied Poland. Its first action was drawing graffiti in Warsaw around Christmas Eve of 1940 commemorating the Wawer massacre.[26] Members of the AK Wawer "Small Sabotage" units painted "Pomścimy Wawer" ("We'll avenge Wawer") on Warsaw walls. At first they painted the whole text, then to save time they shortened it to two letters, P and W. Later they invented Kotwica – "Anchor" – which became the symbol of all Polish resistance in occupied Poland.[27]
1941
From April 1941 the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Union for Armed Struggle started Operation N headed by Tadeusz Żenczykowski. It involved sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda activities.[28]
From March 1941, Witold Pilecki's reports were forwarded to the Polish government in exile and through it, to the British and other Allied governments. These reports informed the Allies about the Holocaust and were the principal source of intelligence on Auschwitz-Birkenau for the Western Allies.[29]
On 7 March 1941, two Polish agents of the Home Army killed Nazi collaborator actor Igo Sym in his apartment in Warsaw. In reprisal, 21 Polish hostages were executed. Several Polish actors were also arrested by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, among them such notable figures as directors Stefan Jaracz and Leon Schiller.
In July 1941 Mieczysław Słowikowski (using the codename "Rygor" – Polish for "Rigor") set up "Agency Africa", one of World War II's most successful intelligence organizations.[30] His Polish allies in these endeavors included Lt. Col. Gwido Langer and Major Maksymilian Ciężki. The information gathered by the Agency was used by the Americans and British in planning the amphibious November 1942 Operation Torch[31] landings in North Africa. These were the first large-scale Allied landings of the war, and their success in turn paved the way for the Allies' Italian campaign.
1942
On 20 June 1942, the most spectacular escape from Auschwitz concentration camp took place. Four Poles, Eugeniusz Bendera,[32] Kazimierz Piechowski, Stanisław Gustaw Jaster and Józef Lempart made a daring escape.[33] The escapees were dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, fully armed and in an SS staff car. They drove out the main gate in a stolen Steyr 220 automobile with a smuggled report from Witold Pilecki about the Holocaust. Three of the escapees remained free until the end of the war; Jaster, who joined the Polish Underground, was recaptured in 1943 and died shortly afterwards in German custody.[34]
In September 1942 "The Żegota Council for the Aid of the Jews" was founded by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz ("Alinka") and made up of Polish Democrats as well as other Catholic activists. Poland was the only country in occupied Europe where there existed such a dedicated secret organization. Half of the Jews in Poland who survived the war (thus over 50,000) were aided in some shape or form by Żegota.[35] The best-known activist of Żegota was Irena Sendler, head of the children's division, who saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them with false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the ghetto.[36]
In 1942 Jan Karski reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the Holocaust of the Jews. He met with Polish politicians in exile including the prime minister, and members of political parties such as the Socialist Party, National Party, Labor Party, People's Party, Jewish Bund and Poalei Zion. He also spoke to Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, and included a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and Bełżec.[37][38]
The Zamość Uprising was an armed uprising of Armia Krajowa and Bataliony Chłopskie against the forced expulsion of Poles from the Zamość region under the Nazi Generalplan Ost.[39] The Germans attempted to remove the local Poles from the Greater Zamość area (through forced removal, transfer to forced labor camps, or, in some cases, mass murder) to get it ready for German colonization. It lasted from 1942 until 1944 and despite heavy casualties suffered by the Underground, the Germans failed.[40][41]
On the night from 7 to 8 October 1942 Operation Wieniec started. It targeted rail infrastructure near Warsaw. Similar operations aimed at disrupting and harrying German transport and communication in occupied Poland occurred in the coming months and years. It targeted railroads, bridges and supply depots, primarily near transport hubs such as Warsaw and Lublin.[41]
1943
In early 1943 two Polish janitors[43] of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide provided maps,[44] sketches and reports to Armia Krajowa Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the "rocket assembly hall', 'experimental pit', and 'launching tower'. When reconnaissance and intelligence information regarding the V-2 rocket became convincing, the War Cabinet Defence Committee (Operations) directed the campaign's first planned raid (the Operation Hydra bombing of Peenemünde in August 1943) and Operation Crossbow.[45]
On 26 March 1943 in Warsaw Operation Arsenal was launched by the Szare Szeregi (Gray Ranks) Polish Underground The successful operation led to the release of arrested troop leader Jan Bytnar "Rudy". In an attack on the prison, Bytnar and 24 other prisoners were freed.[citation needed]
In 1943 in London Jan Karski met the then much known journalist Arthur Koestler. He then traveled to the United States and reported to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His report was a major factor in informing the West. In July 1943, again personally reported to Roosevelt about the situation in Poland. He also met with many other government and civic leaders in the United States, including Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, William Joseph Donovan, and Stephen Wise. Karski also presented his report to media, bishops of various denominations (including Cardinal Samuel Stritch), members of the Hollywood film industry and artists, but without success. Many of those he spoke to did not believe him, or supposed that his testimony was much exaggerated or was propaganda from the Polish government in exile.[37]
In April 1943 the Germans began deporting the remaining Jews from the Warsaw ghetto provoking the Warsaw Ghetto Rising, 19 April to 16 May. Polish Underground State ordered Ghetto Action – a series of combat actions carried out by the Home Army during the uprising between 19 April 1943 and May 16, 1943.[46]
Some units of the AK tried to assist the ghetto rising, but for the most part, the resistance was unprepared and unable to defeat the Germans. One Polish AK unit, the National Security Corps (Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa), under the command of Henryk Iwański ("Bystry"), fought inside the ghetto along with ŻZW. Subsequently, both groups retreated together (including 34 Jewish fighters). Although Iwański's action is the most well-known rescue mission, it was only one of many actions undertaken by the Polish resistance to help the Jewish fighters.[47] In one attack, three cell units of AK under the command of Kapitan Józef Pszenny ("Chwacki") tried to breach the ghetto walls with explosives, but the Germans defeated this action.[43] AK and GL engaged the Germans between 19 and 23 April at six different locations outside the ghetto walls, shooting at German sentries and positions and in one case attempting to blow up a gate.[43][46] Participation of the Polish underground in the uprising was many times confirmed by a report of the German commander – Jürgen Stroop.[48]
When we invaded the Ghetto for the first time, the Jews and the Polish bandits succeeded in repelling the participating units, including tanks and armored cars, by a well-prepared concentration of fire. (...) The main Jewish battle group, mixed with Polish bandits, had already retired during the first and second day to the so-called Muranowski Square. There, it was reinforced by a considerable number of Polish bandits. Its plan was to hold the Ghetto by every means in order to prevent us from invading it. (...) Time and again Polish bandits found refuge in the Ghetto and remained there undisturbed, since we had no forces at our disposal to comb out this maze. (...) One such battle group succeeded in mounting a truck by ascending from a sewer in the so-called Prosta [Street], and in escaping with it (about 30 to 35 bandits). (...) The bandits and Jews – there were Polish bandits among these gangs armed with carbines, small arms, and in one case a light machine gun – mounted the truck and drove away in an unknown direction.[48]
In August 1943 the headquarters of the Armia Krajowa ordered Operation Belt which was one of the large-scale anti-Nazi operations of the AK during the war. By February 1944, 13 German outposts were destroyed with few losses on the Polish side.[49]
Operation Heads began: the serial executions of German personnel who had been sentenced to death by Polish underground Special Courts for crimes against Polish citizens in German-occupied Poland.[41]
On 7 September 1943, the Home Army killed Franz Bürkl during Operation Bürkl. Bürkl was a high-ranking Gestapo agent responsible for the murder and brutal interrogation of thousands of Polish Jews and resistance fighters and supporters. In reprisal, 20 inmates of Pawiak were murdered in a public execution by the Nazis.[41]
In November 1943, Operation Most III started. The Armia Krajowa provided the Allies with crucial intelligence on the German V-2 rocket. In effect some 50 kg of the most important parts of the captured V-2, as well as the final report, analyses, sketches and photos, were transported to Brindisi by a Royal Air Force Douglas Dakota aircraft. In late July 1944, the V-2 parts were delivered to London.[41][50]
In early 1943 the strength of the forest-based groups can be estimated at about 40 groups numbering in total 1,200 to 4,000 fighters, but the numbers grew significantly next year.[51]
1944
On 11 February 1944 the Resistance fighters of Polish Home Army's unit Agat executed Franz Kutschera, SS and Reich's Police Chief in Warsaw in action known as Operation Kutschera.[52][53] In a reprisal of this action 27 February 140 inmates of Pawiak – Poles and Jews – were shot in a public execution by the Germans.
13–14 May 1944 the Battle of Murowana Oszmianka the largest clash between the Polish anti-Nazi Armia Krajowa and the Nazi Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force a Lithuanian volunteer security force subordinated to Nazi Germany.[54] The battle took place in and near the village of Murowana Oszmianka in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland. The outcome of the battle was that the 301st LVR battalion was routed and the entire force was disbanded by the Germans soon afterwards.[55]
On 14 June 1944 the Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze took place between Polish and Russian partisans, numbering around 3,000, and the Nazi German units consisted of between 25,000 and 30,000 soldiers, with artillery, tanks and armored cars and air support.[citation needed]
On 25–26 June 1944 the Battle of Osuchy – one of the largest battles between the Polish resistance and Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II – was fought, in what was essentially a continuation of the Zamość Uprising.[56]
In 1943 the Home Army built up its forces in preparation for a national uprising. The plan of national anti-Nazi uprising on areas of prewar Poland was code-named Operation Tempest.[57] Preparation began in late 1943 but the military actions started in 1944. Its most widely known elements were Operation Ostra Brama, Lwów Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising.[58][59][60][61]
On 7 July, Operation Ostra Brama started. Approximately 12,500 Home Army soldiers attacked the German garrison and managed to seize most of the city center. Heavy street fighting in the outskirts of the city lasted until 14 July. In Vilnius' eastern suburbs, the Home Army units cooperated with reconnaissance groups of the Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front.[62] The Red Army entered the city on 15 July, and the NKVD started to intern all Polish soldiers. On 16 July, the HQ of the 3rd Belorussian Front invited Polish officers to a meeting and arrested them.[63][64][65]
On 23 July the Lwów Uprising – the armed struggle started by the Armia Krajowa against the Nazi occupiers in Lwów during World War II – started. It started in July 1944 as a part of a plan of all-national uprising codenamed Operation Tempest. The fighting lasted until 27 July and resulted in liberation of the city.[66] However, shortly afterwards the Polish soldiers were arrested by the invading Soviets and either forced to join the Red Army or sent to the Gulags. The city itself was occupied by the Soviet Union.[67]
In August 1944, as the Soviet armed forces approached Warsaw, the government in exile called for an uprising in the city, so that they could return to a liberated Warsaw and try to prevent a communist take-over. The AK, led by Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, launched the Warsaw Uprising.[68] Soviet forces were less than 20 km away but on the orders of Soviet High Command they gave no assistance. Stalin described the uprising as a "criminal adventure". The Poles appealed to the Western Allies for help. The Royal Air Force, and the Polish Air Force based in Italy, dropped some munitions, but it was almost impossible for the Allies to help the Poles without Soviet assistance.
The fighting in Warsaw was desperate. The AK had between 12,000 and 20,000 armed soldiers, most with only small arms, against a well-armed German Army of 20,000 SS and regular Army units. Bór-Komorowski's hope that the AK could take and hold Warsaw for the return of the London government was never likely to be achieved. After 63 days of savage fighting the city was reduced to rubble, and the reprisals were savage. The SS and auxiliary units were particularly brutal.
After Bór-Komorowski's surrender, the AK fighters were treated as prisoners-of-war by the Germans, much to the outrage of Stalin, but the civilian population were ruthlessly punished. Overall Polish casualties are estimated to be between 150,000 and 300,000 killed, 90,000 civilians were sent to labor camps in the Reich, while 60,000 were shipped to death and concentration camps such as Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and others. The city was almost totally destroyed after German sappers systematically demolished the city. The Warsaw Uprising allowed the Germans to destroy the AK as a fighting force, but the main beneficiary was Stalin, who was able to impose a communist government on postwar Poland with little fear of armed resistance.
1945
In March 1945, a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union took place in Moscow – (Trial of the Sixteen).[69][70][71][72] The Government Delegate, together with most members of the Council of National Unity and the C-i-C of the Armia Krajowa, were invited by Soviet general Ivan Serov with agreement of Joseph Stalin to a conference on their eventual entry to the Soviet-backed Provisional Government. They were presented with a warrant of safety, yet they were arrested in Pruszków by the NKVD on 27 and 28 March.[73][74] Leopold Okulicki, Jan Stanisław Jankowski and Kazimierz Pużak were arrested on 27th with 12 more the next day. A. Zwierzynski had been arrested earlier. They were brought to Moscow for interrogation in the Lubyanka.[75][76][77] After several months of brutal interrogation and torture,[78] they were presented with the forged accusations of "collaboration with Nazi Germany" and "planning a military alliance with Nazi Germany".[79][80]
In the latter years of the war, there were increasing conflicts between Polish and Soviet partisans. Cursed soldiers continued to oppose the Soviets long after the war. The last cursed soldier – member of the militant anti-communist resistance in Poland was Józef Franczak who was killed with pistol in his hand by ZOMO in 1963.[citation needed]
On 5 May 1945 in Bohemia, the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne brigade liberated prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp in Holiszowo, including 280 Jewish women prisoners.[81] The brigade suffered heavy casualties.[citation needed]
On 7 May 1945 in the village of Kuryłówka, southeastern Poland, the Battle of Kuryłówka started. It was the biggest battle in the history of the Cursed soldiers organization – National Military Alliance (NZW). In battle against Soviet Union's NKVD units anti-communist partisans shot 70 NKVD agents. The battle ended in a victory for the underground Polish forces.[82]
On 21 May 1945, a unit of the Armia Krajowa, led by Colonel Edward Wasilewski, attacked a NKVD camp in Rembertów on the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. The Soviets kept there hundreds of Poles,[83][84][85] members of the Home Army,[86] whom they were systematically deporting to Siberia. However, this action of the pro-independence Polish resistance freed all Polish political prisoners from the camp. Between 1944 and 1946, cursed soldiers attacked many communist prisons in Soviet-occupied Poland – see Raids on communist prisons in Poland (1944–1946).[citation needed]
From 10 to 25 June 1945, Augustów chase 1945 (the Polish Obława augustowska) took place. It was a large-scale operation undertaken by Soviet forces of the Red Army, the NKVD and SMERSH, with the assistance of Polish UB and LWP units against former Armia Krajowa soldiers in the Suwałki and Augustów region in Poland. The operation also covered territory in occupied Lithuania. More than 2,000 alleged Polish anticommunist fighters were captured and detained in Russian internment camps. 600 of the "Augustów Missing" are presumed dead and buried in an unknown location in the present territory of Russia. The Augustów Roundup was part of an anti-guerilla operation in Lithuania.
Sabotage / Diversionary Action Type | Cumulative number |
---|---|
Damaged locomotives | 6,930 |
Delayed repairs to locomotives | 803 |
Derailed transports | 732 |
Transports set on fire | 443 |
Damage to railway wagons | 19,058 |
Blown up railway bridges | 38 |
Disruptions to electricity supplies in the Warsaw grid | 638 |
Army vehicles damaged or destroyed | 4,326 |
Damaged aeroplanes | 28 |
Fuel tanks destroyed | 1,167 |
Fuel destroyed (in tonnes) | 4,674 |
Blocked oil wells | 5 |
Wagons of wood wool destroyed | 150 |
Military stores burned down | 130 |
Disruptions of production in factories | 7 |
Built-in faults in parts for aircraft engines | 4,710 |
Built-in faults into cannon muzzles | 203 |
Built-in faults into artillery missiles | 92,000 |
Built-in faults into air traffic radio stations | 107 |
Built-in faults into condensers | 70,000 |
Built-in faults into (electro-industrial) lathes | 1,700 |
Damage to important factory machinery | 2,872 |
Various acts of sabotage performed | 25,145 |
Pre-planned assassinations of Germans | 5,733 |
Formations
- Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa
- Armia Krajowa
- Armia Ludowa
- Bataliony Chłopskie
- Brygada Swiętokrzyska
- Gwardia Ludowa
- Gwardia Ludowa WRN
- Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa
- Narodowe Siły Zbrojne
- Obóz Polski Walczącej
- Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa
- Polish People's Army PAL
- Szare Szeregi
- Związek Odwetu
- Związek Walki Zbrojnej
- Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa
- Związek Organizacji Wojskowej
- Żydowski Związek Wojskowy
See also
- Anti-fascism
- Bratnia Pomoc
- History of Poland (1939–1945)
- Home Army and V-1 and V-2
- Lithuanian resistance during World War II
- Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
- Polish areas annexed by Soviet Union
- Polish resistance in France during World War II
- Resistance movement
- Western betrayal
- Yugoslav Partisans
Notes
- ^ Started as Service for Poland's Victory in September 1939 and reformed into the Union of Armed Struggle in November the same year. This in turn became the Home Army in February 1942.
- ^ Integrated into the Home Army in 1944.
- ^ Formed from the merger of the National Military Organization and Military Organization Lizard Union in 1942. Partially integrated into the Home Army in March 1944 (NSZ-AK), while remaining units continued independently (NSZ-ZJ).
- ^ The Polish Workers' Party established the State National Council to rival the Polish Underground State in December 1943. The Council established the Polish Committee of National Liberation in July 1944 which evolved into the Provisional Government of Poland in December 1944.
a ^ A number of sources note that the Home Army, representing the bulk of Polish resistance, was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. Norman Davies writes that the "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK,... could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance [organizations]."[88] Gregor Dallas writes that the "Home Army (Armia Krajowa or AK) in late 1943 numbered around 400,000, making it the largest resistance organization in Europe."[89] Mark Wyman writes that the "Armia Krajowa was considered the largest underground resistance unit in wartime Europe."[90] The numbers of Soviet partisans were very similar to those of the Polish resistance.[91]
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External links
- Polish contribution to World War II (Polish Underground State) Movie on YouTube
- Armia Krajowa
- Die "Stunde W"
- Ann Su Caldwell, "Poland: Here is the Record". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2006.. Polonia Online.
- Polish Resistance in World War II Archived 22 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- Warsaw Uprising 1944 Archived 12 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- History of Warsaw's contributions levied by the German Occupation Authority