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Service for Poland's Victory


 






Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for Poland's Victory, or Polish Victory Service, abbreviated SZP) was the first Polish resistance movement in World War II. It was created by the order of general Juliusz Rómmel on 27 September 1939, when the siege of Warsaw, capital of Poland, where Rómmel commanded Polish defence was nearing its end (Warsaw would capitulate on 28 September).

The commander of SZP was General Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski. This secret organisation was tasked with the continuing of armed struggle to liberate Poland in the pre-war borders of the Second Polish Republic, recreation and reorganization of the Polish army and establishment of the secret government (Polish Underground State).

In November 1939 SZP was renamed into Związek Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ).

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References

  1. ^ Stanislaw Mikolajczyk The Pattern of Soviet Domination Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1948 Page 8
This article incorporates information from the revision as of 13 July 2006 of the equivalent article on the Polish Wikipedia.
Flaga PPP.svg Armia Krajowa (Home Army)

main articles: Polish resistance movement in World War II • Polish Underground State

Flaga PPP.svg AK operations and opponents

Urban warfare
Warsaw Uprising • Zamość Uprising • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • Kutschera • Lwów Uprising  • Murowana Oszmianka • Ostra Brama • Tempest •


Underground, Field,
and Espionage
Arsenal • Project Big Ben  • F.Bürkl • NIE • Most III  • Osuchy • Taśma  • V1 / V2 • Wieniec


Propaganda
Biuletyn Informacyjny • Operation N  • Operation Antyk


Directorates
Civil Resistance • Covert Resistance • Underground Resistance


Opponents
UPA Ukrainian Insurgent Army • Lithuanian Security Police


Political
Republic of Pińczów




Flaga PPP.svg AK personnel, emblems and decorations

Commanders
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski • Stefan Rowecki • Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski • Leopold Okulicki


Senior officers and
prominent members
J.Aleksandrowicz • J.Arkusz • Włodzimierz Arlamowski • K.K.Baczyński • H.Bartnicka-Tajchert • W.Bartoszewski • J.Batory • R.Białous • S.Bittner • F.Błażej • A.Bohdziewicz • J.Bokszczanin • S.Braun • T.Gajcy • H.Lederman • S.Jankowski • S.Karpiel • K.Kierzkowski • B.Kostrzewska • H.Krahelska • A.Krzyżanowski • L.Kulej • J.J.Lerski • J.Mazurkiewicz • W.Micuta • K.Moczarski • A.Nadolski • T.Pełczyński • A.Pilch • W.Pilecki • R.Reiff • Z.Romanowiczowa • Z.Rumel • J.Rutkowski • D.Smoleński • A.Stelmachowski • R.Syski • J.Szczepański • Z.Szendzielarz • A.Szklarski • H.Szwarc • E.Umińska • J.Zabłocki • J.Zabłocki • A.Zakrzewska • W.Zalewski • J.Zamoyski • T.Zawadzki • T.Żenczykowski • M.Żuławski • T.Żychiewicz •


Membership lists
Armia Krajowa members  • Warsaw Uprising insurgents


Emblems and
Decorations
Armia Krajowa Cross  • Kotwica • Krzyż Powstania Warszawskiego  •




Flaga PPP.svg AK units, affiliates, predecessors and rivals

Headquarters and
Directorates
Information and Propaganda • Kedyw • Civil Resistance • Covert Resistance • Underground Resistance


Divisions
27 Volhynian


Combat battalions
Parasol  • Zośka


Warsaw commands
I Śródmieście • Żoliborz • III Wola  • IV Ochota  • V Mokotów  • VI Praga  • VII Warsaw suburbs


Combat groups
Żaglowiec  • Żbik  • Żmija  • Żniwiarz  • Żyrafa


Other
Błyskawica radiostation  • Jędrusie (Little Andrews)  • PKB (Underground Police) • TWZW Secret Military Printing Works  •


Affiliates and
predecessors
Bataliony Chłopskie (Peasants' Battalions) • Konfederacja Narodu (Confederation of the Nation) • Leśni (Foresters) • NOW National Military Association  • NSZ National Armed Forces (split) • OPW Camp of Fighting Poland  • SZP Service for Poland's Victory • Szare Szeregi (Boy Scouts)  • TAP Secret Polish Army  • Gwardia Ludowa WRN (Socialist Party People's Guard)  • Wachlarz • ZWZ Union of Armed Struggle • ZO Union of Retaliation


Rivals
NSZ National Armed Forces (split) • AL Armia Ludowa (People's Army)






related articles: The Holocaust in Poland  • Warsaw Uprising  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising




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