KISKA

{{Short description|Hungarian armed organization during World War II}}

KISKA ({{langx|hu|Kisegitő Karhatalmi Alakulat}}){{harvnb|Juhász|1988|p=187}}: "Auxiliary Police Force Units"; {{harvnb|Benshalom|2001|p=204}}: "Security Aid Division"; {{harvnb|Bartha|2022|p=80}}: "Auxiliary Security Forces". was a force attached to the Royal Hungarian Army during the brief period of Arrow Cross Party rule late in World War II.{{sfn|Ungváry|2005|pp=71–72}} KISKA was activated by the Arrow Cross after the German takeover on 15 October 1944 and had replaced the Home Guard (Nemzetőrség) by early November.{{sfn|Bartha|2022|p=80}} There was generally one KISKA battalion in each city and university.{{sfn|Ungváry|2005|pp=71–72}} The force numbered some 7,000 noncombatants, mostly recruited from Budapest.{{sfn|Ungváry|2005|pp=71–72}}{{sfn|Benshalom|2001|p=204}} It was jointly controlled by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Interior.{{sfn|Bartha|2022|p=80}} The purpose of KISKA was to secure the hinterland.{{sfn|Bartha|2022|p=81}} It was rapidly infiltrated by dissenters, deserters, leftists and Jews,{{sfn|Benshalom|2001|p=204}}{{sfn|Bartha|2022|p=81}} becoming in effect "the legal cover of the organisations of resistance".{{sfn|Juhász|1988|p=187}} It was regarded as a nuisance by the Germans.{{sfn|Benshalom|2001|p=204}} It was finally dissolved by the Arrow Cross government on 6 January 1945.{{sfn|Ungváry|2005|pp=71–72}}