Związek Walki Zbrojnej
- Union for Armed Struggle
- ZWZ
History
In German controlled Poland the Polish underground in 1940 gradually became more tightly organized. General Sikorski in France took steps to bring all resistance forces in the homeland under the control of his government in exile. Since the beginning of the war, dozens of independent resistance groups had sprung up, mistrustful of any central control. Sikorski ordered the Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland), by far the largest of the underground organizations, to transform itself into the central organ of military resistance under the name of Związek Walki Zbrojnej. All other military groups were directed to subordinate themselves to it. The ZWZ had become a vast resistance network, part of a continually developing underground state.
Places
Founded and active in Poland.
Sources
Hitler’s Central European Empire : 1938-1945 / J.W. Sedlar. – Unknown, 2007. – p. 140