The term usually refers to the Polish Home Army, or Armia Krajowa. Other meanings include:
In respect of the Allied countries not invaded, such as Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States, the term might be used relating to the forces within the respective country concerned with that country's defence and security, or to differentiate between forces within that country and forces it had deployed outside its borders.
More prevalent is the use of the term in reference to the overall force mustered and co-ordinated in occupied countries to provide resistance, intelligence and force by arms or sabotage against the occupier. Resistance, to varying degrees, existed in all occupied countries and some bodies, such as those listed below, either employed the term or were generally known by it:
The term may also refer to the anti-nazis movement in Hitler's Germany and the alternate use of the German military force to take domestic control on the removal of Hitler.
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The Armia Krajowa or AK ( HomeArmy) functioned as the dominant resistance movement in German - occupied Poland, which was active in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945.
As a clandestine army operating in a country occupied by the enemy, separated by over a thousand kilometers from any friendly territory, the AK faced unique challenges in acquiring arms and equipment.
The arms and equipment for Armia Krajowa mostly came from four sources: arms buried by the Polish armies on the battlefields after the September Campaign in 1939, arms purchased or captured from the Germans and their allies, arms clandestinely manufactured by Armia Krajowa itself, and arms received from Allied air drops.
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