National Military Union
{{Short description|Polish anti-Communist organization}}
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The National Military Union ({{Langx|pl|Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe}}; NZW) was a Polish anti-Communist organization, founded in November 1944, after the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising. It was among the largest and strongest resistance organisations established in the PRL in mid and late 1940s.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} The NZW was the result of a merger between the National Armed Forces and the National Military Organization.{{Sfn|Łapiński|2012|p=71}} The NZW's name was intentioned to differentiate itself from the National Armed Forces.{{Sfn|Biedroń|1999|p=99}} The National Military Union was aligned with and supported the Polish government-in-exile.{{Cite web |title=Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe |url=https://podziemiezbrojne.ipn.gov.pl/zol/historia/narodowe-zjednoczenie-w/87930,Narodowe-Zjednoczenie-Wojskowe.html |access-date=8 March 2025 |website=Żołnierze Wyklęci – Zapomniani Bohaterowie |publisher=Institute of National Remembrance |language=pl}}
NZW's first commander was Colonel Tadeusz Danilewicz, then Colonel Bogusław Banasik. The organisation was organised into sixteen "areas" and was most active in the districts of Białystok, Lublin and Rzeszów. It had several armed units, called Pogotowie Walki Zbrojnej, which fought many skirmishes with both the NKVD and the Soviet Red Army. Its headquarters were destroyed in early spring of 1946, when Stalinist secret police arrested hundreds of its members. However, several units remained active until the mid-1950s.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
See also
References
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= Bibliography =
- {{Cite journal |last=Biedroń |first=Tomasz |year=1999 |title=Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe – Narodowy Związek Zbrojny Okręg Krakowski (1945–1947) |url=https://rep.up.krakow.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11716/8944/RND200--07--Narodowe-Zjednoczenie--Biedron.pdf |format=PDF |journal=Rocznik Naukowo-Dydaktyczny WSP w Krakowie |language=pl |publisher=Pedagogical University of Kraków |publication-place=Kraków |volume=200 |pages=99-122}}
- {{Cite book |last=Łapiński |first=Piotr |title=Komunistyczne amnestie lat 1945–1947. Drogi do „legalizacji” czy zagłady? |publisher=Institute of National Remembrance |year=2012 |location=Warsaw |pages=71-77 |language=pl |chapter=Amnestia w 1947 r. na Białostocczyźnie jako próba „rozbrojenia terenu” |chapter-url=http://www.polska1918-89.pl/pdf/amnestia-1947-roku-na-bialostocczyznie,5360.pdf |chapter-format=PDF}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Bechta |first=Mariusz |title=...między Bolszewią a Niemcami. Konspiracja polityczna i wojskowa Polskiego Obozu Narodowego na Podlasiu w latach 1939–1952 |publisher=Institute of National Remembrance |year=2009 |series=Mazowsze i Podlasie w ogniu 1944–1956 |volume=3 |language=pl}}
- {{Cite book |last=Bechta |first=Mariusz |title=Przeciwko Pax Sovietica. Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe i struktury polityczne ruchu narodowego wobec reżimu komunistycznego 1944–1956 |last2=Muszyński |first2=Wojciech J. |publisher=Institute of National Remembrance |year=2017 |isbn=978-83-8098-102-7 |series=Monografie |volume=122 |language=pl}}
- {{Cite book |last=Surdej |first=Mirosław |title=Okręg Rzeszowski Narodowej Organizacji Wojskowej – Narodowego Zjednoczenia Wojskowego w latach 1944–1947 |publisher=Institute of National Remembrance |year=2018 |isbn=978-83-8098-372-4 |location=Rzeszów–Warsaw |language=pl}}
External links
- http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/39559,,,,narodowe_zjednoczenie_wojskowe,haslo.html
- http://powstanie-warszawskie-1944.ac.pl/zw_nzw.htm
- http://www.zebrane-doswiadczenia.salon24.pl/30841,index.html
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Category:Military history of Poland during World War II
Category:Polish dissident organisations
Category:National liberation movements
Category:Anti-communist organisations in Poland
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