Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (English National Armed Forces, NSZ) was one of the Polish armed underground guerilla organizations, fighting Nazi German occupation in General Government. This article covers the Secret State of Poland during World War II. For the earlier secret state in Poland see: January Uprising This article is part of the series: Polish Secret State Categories: Historical stubs | Polish history | World War II resistance movements | National liberation movements ... Unofficial flag of the Armia Krajowa and the Polish Secret State. ... On 1 September 1939, without a formal declaration of war, Germany invaded Poland. ... The Government of the Polish Republic in exile maintained a continuous existence in exile from the time of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the Communist rule in Poland in 1990. ... Government Delegates Office at Home (Polish Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj) was one of the agendas of the Polish Government in Exile during World War II. It was the highest authority of the Polish Secret State in occupied Poland and was headed by the Government Delegate at Home... Rada Jedności Narodowej (Council of National Unity, RJN) was the quasi-parliament of the Polish Secret State during World War II. It was created by the Government Delegate on January 9, 1944. ... Directorate of Civil Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej, short KWC) was one of the branches of the Polish Government Delegate’s Office during World War II. Its main tasks were to maintain the morale of the Polish society, encourage the passive resistance, report German attrocities and cruelties to the Polish... Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) was one of the most important Polish political parties 1890-1948. ... The Polish Workers Party was a communist party in Poland from 1938 to 1948. ... A Bundist demonstration, 1917 The General Jewish Labour Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, in Yiddish the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (אלגמײנער ײדישער ארבײטרסבונד אין רוסלנד, ליטא אונד פוילן), generally called The Bund (בונד), was a Jewish political party operating in several European countries between... Hashomer Hatzair (alt. ... The Betar Movement (ביתר, also spelled Beitar) was founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky. ... Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (National Radical Camp, ONR) was a Polish nationalist political party, formed on May 14, 1934 mostly by the youth radicals who left the Narodowa Demokracja movement. ... For other meanings of Home Army see: Home Army (disambiguation) The Armia Krajowa or AK (Home Army) functioned as the pre-eminent underground military organization in German-occupied Poland, which functioned in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945. ... Szare Szeregi ( Polish for Grey Ranks) was a code-name for the underground Polish Scouting Association (Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego) during World War II. The organisation was created on September 27, 1939, in Warsaw and largely contributed to all resistance actions of the Polish Secret State and its members were among... Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa (Polish for National Security Corps, short PKB) was a Polish underground police force organized by the Armia Krajowa and Delegates Office under German occupation during World War II. It was trained as the core of the future police forces during the assumed all-national uprising and... Bataliony Chłopskie (BCh, Polish Peasants Battalions) was a Polish World War II resistance movement and partisan organisation. ... Gwardia Ludowa (Polish Peoples Guard, abbreviated GL) was a World War II resistance movement in Poland, organised by the Polish Workers Party. ... This article is part of the series: Polish Secret State See also Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) which supported the Polish government-in-exile Categories: Historical stubs | Polish history | World War II resistance movements | Military of Poland ... The Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB, Polish for the Jewish Fighting Organization) - a World War II resistance movement, which supposedly was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (ZZW fighters from second Jewish resistance organisation claim otherwise). ... Żydowski Związek Walki (ŻZW, Polish for Jewish Fighting Union) was an underground organisation operating during World War II in the area of Warsaw Ghetto and fighting during Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ... This article covers the topic of underground education in Poland (Polish Tajne szkolnictwo) during World War II. After the Polish defeat in the Polish Defence War of 1939 and the subsequent German occupation of most of Polish territory, Poland was divided onto the areas directly incorporated into the Reich and... The people of Poland took pride in their long history, filled with the struggle to get, keep, and regain freedom—the main value for Poles. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Republic of Poland, a democratic country with a population of 38,626,349 and area of 312,685 km², is located in Central Europe, between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... The General Government (in full General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) was the name given by Germany to the governing authority in Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939. ...

It occupied the extreme right wing of political spectrum. Its program included fighting against Nazi Germany and Stalinist Soviet Union for the independence of Poland, keeping the Second Polish Republics pre-war eastern border and gaining territories of current Poland in the west. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... Soviet Union - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Second Polish Republic 1921-1939 The Second Polish Republic is an unofficial name applied to the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II. When the borders of the state were fixed in 1921, it had an area of 388. ... The name Kresy (Polish for borderlands) (or more correctly Kresy Wschodnie, Eastern Borderlands) is used by Poles to refer to the eastern part of Poland in the inter-war period. ... Note: although the term recovered territories has a clear meaning in Poland and Polish historiography, it is not a widely accepted term or concept in English speaking nations. ...

The NSZ has been accused of chauvinism and anti-Semitism, however this has been proven to be communist propaganda. Some historians believe that the NSZ murdered hundreds of Jews who sought refuge in the forests. NSZ itself underlined, that it fought with Soviet partisants. It also fought with the Polish communist partisans of Armia Ludowa (AL). Thanks to the policy of non-cooperation with the Soviets and unlike Home Army (AK), that was completely transparent to Soviet security services, NSZ remained a military and political power when Poland was taken over by the Red Army. The anti-communist stance of the National Armed Forces was never thoroughly analyzed. One should not consider it as an exclusively ideological conflict. The Polish communists, controlled and at the disposal of Moscow, tried to sabotage the patriotic movement with no less energy than the German invader. The communist bands plundered the country side. Murder and rape was the order of the day. One of the NSZ goals was to give protection to the population against the banditry and violence. The NSZ described and evaluated the communist activities in the following way: Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. ... Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards Jews (not: Semites - see the Misnomer section further on). ... This article is about the type of communication. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... This article is part of the series: Polish Secret State See also Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) which supported the Polish government-in-exile Categories: Historical stubs | Polish history | World War II resistance movements | Military of Poland ... For other meanings of Home Army see: Home Army (disambiguation) The Armia Krajowa or AK (Home Army) functioned as the pre-eminent underground military organization in German-occupied Poland, which functioned in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ... An ideology is a collection of ideas. ...

"One can die by the method proven in Katyn, that is by a single shot in the back of the head, or in the Soviet Forced Labour Camps, or in the gas chambers of German Concentration Camps (...) there is no real difference in the way one dies (...) therefore it is our duty to stamp out the Soviet agents in Poland. This is simply demanded by the Polish reasons of state." Katyn is the name of both a village and a forest near Smolensk, Russia. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

The members of NSZ were persecuted in the stalinist years after the war. Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ...

NSZ was created on September 20th, 1942. It reached about 75,000 members. Part of NSZ joined the Armia Krajowa in March 1944. NSZ units took part in the Warsaw Uprising. In January 1945, the NSZ Holy Cross Mountains Brigade (Brygada Świętokrzyska) retreated before the Red Army with the Germans approval, into the German protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It, however, fought against Germans again in May 5th, 1945 in Bohemia, when NSZ freed women from a concentration camp in Holiszowo. The brigade suffered heavy casualties. September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other meanings of Home Army see: Home Army (disambiguation) The Armia Krajowa or AK (Home Army) functioned as the pre-eminent underground military organization in German-occupied Poland, which functioned in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazi rule. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (in German: Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren, in Czech: Protektorát Čechy a Morava) was a German protectorate that arose in central parts of Bohemia and Moravia on March 15, 1939 when Germany invaded the western part of former Czechoslovakia, the former Austrian provinces Bohemia and... May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

Commanders: colonel Ignacy Oziewicz colonel Tadeusz Kurcyusz colonel Stanislaw Kasznica Categories: People stubs | 1887 births | 1966 deaths | Polish Army officers | Recipients of Virtuti Militari | Polish resistance fighters ... Tadeusz Kurcyusz (pseudonyms: Fiszer, gen. ... Categories: Poland-related stubs | 1908 births | 1948 deaths | Polish Army officers | Recipients of Virtuti Militari | Polish resistance fighters ...