Tajna Armia Polska
The Tajna Armia Polska (German Secret Polish Army ) was a military organization operating underground against the German and Soviet occupiers during the Second World War .
history
After the surrender of the regular Polish armed forces in October 1939, individual conspiratorial groups emerged throughout Poland, which was occupied by the German Reich and the Soviet Union .
On November 9th, two groups in Warsaw, led by Jan Dangel, a civilian, and Jan Włodarkiewicz, a major , formed the Polish Secret Army in order to offer nationwide resistance against National Socialism and to facilitate measures such as espionage and sabotage .
At the beginning the military organization had around 300 members, mostly students. With the help of its member Witold Pilecki , the Secret Polish Army quickly recruited additional members from military circles and the Catholic educated middle class.
After November 1940, the Secret Polish Army suffered a series of setbacks that forced it to increasingly operate underground and to cease open combat operations for the time being. In February 1942 it was absorbed into the Polish Home Army along with other military organizations .
Individual evidence
- ^ Kazimierz Malinowski: Tajna Armia Polska. Zarys genezy, organizacji i działalności , PAX, Warsaw 1986, ISBN 83-211-0791-5 .
- ^ Adam Cyra: Ochotnik do Auschwitz. Witold Pilecki 1901–1948 , CSRO, Oświęcim 2000, ISBN 83-912000-3-5 .