Polish anti-Nazi resistance

Polish resistance during World War II
Part of Resistance during World War II
Soldiers from Kolegium "A" of Kedyw on Stawki Street in Wola district - Warsaw Uprising 1944, Jewish prisoners of Gęsiówka concentration camp liberated by Polish Home Army soldiers from "Zośka" Battalion, 5 August 1944, Old Town in Warsaw in flames during the Warsaw Uprising, Polish partisans from Kielce area - unit "Jędrusie" 1945,
Date 1939-1945 Anti-Communist resistance continued until mid-1950s Location Occupied Poland Result Defeat of Nazi Germany Restoration of Polish statehood after occupation Sovietization of Poland, imposition of a Communist puppet government and reduction of Poland to a Soviet satellite state until 1989 Liquidation of the Polish Home Army and other anti-Nazi resistance movements by the Soviet secret police Continued anti-Communist resistance
Belligerents
Germany  Soviet Union (1939-41, after 1944) Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1943-44)	Polish resistance supported by Polish government-in-exile Allies
Commanders and leaders
Hans Frank Walter Model Oskar Dirlewanger Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Franz Kutschera  † Rainer Stahel Heinz Reinefarth others Lavrenty Beria Konstantin Rokossovsky Ivan Serov others Roman Shukhevych Dmytro Klyachkivsky	Henryk Dobrzański  † Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski Stefan Rowecki Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Leopold Okulicki Jan Karski Witold Pilecki Emil August Fieldorf Antoni Chruściel Stanisław Kasznica Franciszek Kamiński Marian Spychalski and others
Units involved
Wehrmacht Heer Waffen-SS Gestapo Blue Police Sonderdienst collaborators Red Army NKVD NKGB SMERSH Galician and Volhynian UPA regiments	Home Army Peasants' Battalions National Armed Forces Leśni People's Guard (WRN) People's Guard People's Army Jewish Combat Organization Jewish Military Union Other underground organizations

Defeat of Nazi Germany
Restoration of Polish statehood after occupation
Sovietization of Poland, imposition of a Communist puppet government and reduction of Poland to a Soviet satellite state until 1989
Liquidation of the Polish Home Army and other anti-Nazi resistance movements by the Soviet secret police

The Polish resistance movement in World War II, with the Polish Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistances in all of Nazi-occupied Europe, covering both German and Soviet zones of occupation. The Polish defence against the Nazi occupation was an important part of the European anti-fascist resistance movement. The Polish resistance is most notable for disrupting German supply lines to the Eastern Front, providing military intelligence to the British, and for saving more Jewish lives in the Holocaust than any other Western Allied organization or government. It was a part of the Polish Underground State.

The largest of all Polish resistance organizations was the Armia Krajowa (Home Army, AK), loyal to the Polish government in exile in London. The AK was formed in 1942 from the Union for Armed Combat (Związek Walki Zbrojnej or ZWZ, itself created in 1939) and would eventually incorporate most other Polish armed resistance groups (except for the communists and some far-right groups). It was the military arm of the Polish Underground State and loyal to the Polish government in Exile.

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