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People's Guard WRN (Polish: Gwardia Ludowa WRN; GL WRN) and from May 1944 the Military Units of the Uprising Emergency of Socialists (Polish: Oddziały Wojskowe Pogotowia Powstańczego Socjalistów; OW PPS) [1] was a military branch of underground Polish Socialist Party WRN, and part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.
Polish-Israeli historians Israel Gutman and Shmuel Krakowski report that in many regions of Poland, the People's Guard was the only allied force the Jewish partisans could rely on, and list ten Jewish partisan units that joined the People's Guard, alongside thirteen ethnically mixed partisan units of the People's Guard. [22]
People's Guard can mean: Gwardia Ludowa, a communist armed organisation in Poland during World War II, organised by the Soviet-created Polish Workers Party; People's Guard (Libya), part of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya; People's Guard of Georgia, a volunteer force of Georgian civilians who resisted the Red Army invasion in February 1921.
Gwardia Ludowa (the People's Guard) and Armia Ludowa (the People's Army) Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organisation), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943; Zydowski Zwiazek Walki (ZZW, the Jewish Fighting Union), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943
Created by the leftist People's Party around 1940–1941, it would partially merge with AK around 1942–1943. [4] The Gwardia Ludowa WRN (People's Guard of WRN) of Polish Socialist Party (PPS) (joined ZWZ around 1940, subsequently merged into AK) [5] [6] The Konfederacja Narodu (Confederation of the Nation).
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement and several of its leaders, designating them terrorists as Washington seeks to combat violent white ...
The first in English was Józef Garliński's Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp (1975), followed by M. R. D. Foot's Six Faces of Courage (1978). [14] The first in Polish was the Rotmistrz Pilecki (1995) by Wiesław Jan Wysocki, followed by Ochotnik do Auschwitz. Witold Pilecki 1901–1948 (2000) by Adam Cyra. [9]
The very name of the book, Story of a Secret State, refers to the Polish Secret State, a political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile in London, encompassed not only military resistance but also underground civilian ...