Topic summary
Polish resistance movement in World War II
Soviet Union(1939–1941; after 1944 against non-Communists only)
Ukrainian Insurgent Army(1943–1945)
Peasants' Battalions
National Armed Forcesand others...
Supported by:
Polish Government-in-Exile
Western AlliesProvisional Government
People's Guard(1942–1944)- People's Army(1944)
Soviet Union(After 1941; only Communists)- Henryk Dobrzański†
- M. Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
- Stefan Rowecki
- Tadeusz Komorowski(POW)
- Leopold Okulicki
- Tadeusz Pełczyński(POW)
- Emil August Fieldorf
- Antoni Chruściel(POW)
Franciszek Kamiński- Ignacy Oziewicz
- Tadeusz Kurcyusz#
- Stanisław Kasznica
- Władysław Gomułka
- Bolesław Bierut
- Edward Osóbka-Morawski
- Bolesław Mołojec
- Marian Spychalski
- Michał Rola-Żymierski
- Franciszek Jóźwiak
Polish Underground State650,000 (1944)
Polish People's Army~200,000
- Up to 150,000 killed, 6,000 officials assassinated
- 4,326 damaged or destroyed vehicles
- 1/8 of Eastern Front rail transport damaged or destroyed
- 6,000–15,000 killed
- ~34,000–100,000 killed
- 20,000–50,000 wounded or captured
- ~5,000–10,000
In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines to the Eastern Front (damaging or destroying 1/8 of all rail transports), and providing intelligence reports to the Britishintelligence agencies (providing 43% of all reports from occupied Europe). It was a part of the Polish Underground State.