Związek Jaszczurczy

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Logo of the lizard association

Związek Jaszczurczy ( German  Lizard Association ) was a nationalist underground organization in German-occupied Poland from 1939 to 1942.

It was founded in October 1939 in Warsaw by members of the National Radical Camp . Although the Lizard Association recognized the Polish government in exile , it was opposed to it. In 1942 the organization had 10,000 members. On September 20, 1942, members of the Lizard Association together with members of the National Military Organization - NOW , who had spoken out against the merger with the Armia Krajowa , the Narodowe Siły Zbrojne . In March 1944, the former NOW fighters decided to merge with the Armia Krajowa, the Lizard Association fighters again spoke out against the merger and called their organization NSZ-ZJ.

Organization objectives

  • Fight for the independence of Poland against the German and Soviet occupiers
  • Restoration of Poland on the eastern borders of the Curzon Line
  • Movement of Poland's western border to the Oder-Neisse line
  • Connection of East Prussia to Poland
  • Forced resettlement of the German population
  • Organization of the Polish state according to Roman Catholic and nationalist principles
  • Fighting communism