Bataliony Chłopskie

• Heimatarmee
• AK

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• Corporate Body
• Updated 9 years ago

1942-02-14/1945-01-20

Subordinated to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland) and the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) formed on 1942-02-14 the Armia Krajowa. During the war it became an umbrella organization of resistance groups. Attacks were limited to confiscating supplies, burning food-quota documents, and, perhaps, crippling machinery. This modus operandi denoted the desire of the independentists to avoid German reprisals against the people and the destruction of property which, after all, was Polish and would be used after the ...

• Peasant Party
• SL

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• Updated 1 decade ago

Founded in 1895-07-28

Stronnictwo Ludowe was the largest political grouping in the Polish underground and was originally established in Rzeszów on 1895-07-28.

• Union for Armed Struggle
• ZWZ

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• Updated 1 decade ago

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....