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The Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa, pronounced [ˈarmja kraˈjɔva]; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
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…Polish underground, known as the Home Army, was anxious because the Soviet Union had already assumed direct control of eastern Poland and had sponsored the formation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation to administer the remainder of Soviet-occupied Polish territory.
In 1944, this powerful mass movement consisted of over 380 000 voluntarily soldiers – more than 10% of Polish citizens. Many historians consider it to be the biggest European partisan movement during the war. AK soldiers made acts of sabotages like derailing trains and damaging locomotives.
The uniqueness of the Home Army is something much discussed. What was it all about? What can be considered the organisation’s greatest success? What place does it occupy in the Poles’ collective consciousness?
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The all-Poland organisation formed in 1939 is viewed as the Home Army (AK, from the Polish Armia Krajowa) by the whole of Polish society. The name “Home Army” was first officially used on 14 February 1942, the name being a symbol and extending to almost all military efforts by the Polish underground. The Home Army.
