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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.
During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising People's Guard attacked German units near the Ghetto walls [14] [15] and attempted to smuggle weapons, ammunition, supplies, and instructions into the Ghetto. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] After the uprising was over, GL helped Jews to escape Ghetto [ 19 ] and some Jewish militants joined the units of GL.
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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).
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.
The group fought along with the People's Guard (Polish: Gwardia Ludowa) in a number of intense engagements against German forces, making use of machine guns, explosives for mining railways, and other supplies air-dropped by Soviet forces, with food stuffs requisitioned from local farmers. They participated in the takeover of the city of Parczew ...
Gwardia Ludowa (the People's Guard) and Armia Ludowa ... the Jewish Fighting Union), Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943; 1945–89
The British imperial system uses a stone of 14 lb, a long hundredweight of 112 lb and a long ton of 2,240 lb. The stone is not a measurement of weight used in the US. The US customary system uses the short hundredweight of 100 lb and short ton of 2,000 lb. Where these systems most notably differ is in their units of volume.