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The Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa, pronounced [ˈarmja kraˈjɔva]; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) established in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939.
Coordinates: 50°04′19″N 19°56′57″E. The restored building of the Home Army Museum in Krakow. The Home Army Museum in Kraków ( Polish: Muzeum Armii Krajowej w Krakowie) was created in Kraków, Poland in 2000, to commemorate the struggle for independence by the underground Polish Secret State and its military arm Armia Krajowa (The ...
Polish General Staff, formally known as the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces ( Polish: Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego) is the highest professional body within the Polish Armed Forces. Organizationally, it is an integral part of the Ministry of National Defence and the Chief of the General Staff is the highest ranking military officer ...
The Citizens' Home Army ( Polish: Armia Krajowa Obywatelska, AKO) was a Polish military anticommunist organization, and a successor of the disbanded Polish anti-Nazi resistance Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK). It was founded in February 1945 by Colonel Władysław Liniarski ( nom de guerre "Mścisław"), who had previously been commandant of the ...
Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa ( National Military Organization, NOW) was one of the Polish resistance movements in World War II. Created in October 1939, it did not merge with the Service for Poland's Victory (SZP)/ Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ); later Home Army (AK). Nevertheless, it recognized the Polish government in exile, which was located ...
mjr Henryk Dobrzański (Hubal) (first partisan in World War II) mjr Walerian Łukasiński (officer in the army of Congress Poland) mjr Henryk Sucharski (commander in e Battle of Westerplatte) mjr Zygmunt Szendzielarz (cursed soldier, commander of the Home Army 5th Wilno Brigade) mjr Marian Bernaciak (cursed soldier) kpt.
Jarosław Mika (born 31 October 1962) is a Polish Land Forces officer who served as the general commander of Branches of the Armed Forces between 2017 and 2023. Biography. Mika was born on 31 October 1962, and he joined the Polish military in 1981 when he joined the Armored Forces Academy in Poznań. He graduated in 1985 and joined the 5th ...
Główny Zarząd Informacji Wojska Polskiego (English: Main Directorate of Information of the Polish Army) was an early military Police and counter-espionage organ of the Polish People's Army in communist Poland during and after World War II. It is also known by its acronym GZI WP (sometimes shortened to GZI) or simply as Informacja Wojskowa ( lit.