Polish resistance movement in World War II

Polish resistance movement in World War II
Part of Resistance during World War II and the Eastern Front of World War II
Sequentially from top: soldiers from Kolegium "A" of Kedyw on Stawki Street in Wola district, during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944; Jewish prisoners of Gęsiówka concentration camp liberated by Polish Home Army soldiers from "Zośka" Battalion, 5 August 1944; Polish partisans of "Jędrusie" unit in Kielce area, 1945; Old Town of Warsaw in flames during Warsaw Uprising
Date 27 September 1939 – 25 July 1945 (anti-communist resistance continued until mid-1950s) Location Poland, present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. Result Polish victory Contribution to Allied forces Restoration of Polish statehood after occupation Sovietization of Poland, imposition of a communist puppet government and reduction of Poland to a Soviet satellite state until 1989 Liquidation of the Polish Home Army and other anti-Nazi resistance movements by the Soviet secret police Continued anti-communist resistance Territorial changes Borders of Poland altered; prewar eastern territories of Poland ceded to the Soviet Union in exchange for former German territories in the West
Belligerents
Germany Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Polish collaborators  Soviet Union (1939–1941; after 1944 against non-Communists only) Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1943–1945)	Polish Underground State Home Army[a] Jewish Combat Organization Peasants' Battalions[b] National Armed Forces[c] and others... Supported by: Polish Government-in-Exile Western Allies Provisional Government[d] People's Guard (1942–1944) People's Army (1944) Supported by: Soviet Union (After 1941)
Commanders and leaders
Hans Frank Walter Model Oskar Dirlewanger E. von dem Bach-Zelewski Franz Kutschera  X Rainer Stahel Heinz Reinefarth Lavrenty Beria Konstantin Rokossovsky Ivan Serov Roman Shukhevych Dmytro Klyachkivsky †	Henryk Dobrzański † M. Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski Stefan Rowecki  Tadeusz Komorowski (POW) Leopold Okulicki Tadeusz Pełczyński (POW) Emil August Fieldorf Antoni Chruściel (POW) Franciszek Kamiński Ignacy Oziewicz Tadeusz Kurcyusz † Stanisław Kasznica Władysław Gomułka Bolesław Bierut Edward Osóbka-Morawski Bolesław Mołojec Marian Spychalski Michał Rola-Żymierski Franciszek Jóźwiak Mordechai Anielewicz † Yitzhak Zuckerman Marek Edelman Paweł Frenkiel † Leon Rodal † Dawid Wdowiński
Strength
1,080,000 (1944)	Polish Underground State 650,000 (1944)[1] Polish People's Army ~200,000
Casualties and losses
Germany Up to 150,000 killed, 6,000 officials assassinated 4,326 damaged or destroyed vehicles 1/8 of Eastern Front rail transport damaged or destroyed Ukrainian Insurgent Army 6,000–15,000 killed	Polish Underground State ~34,000–100,000 killed 20,000–50,000 wounded or captured Polish People's Army ~5,000–10,000

In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines to the Eastern Front (damaging or destroying 1/8 of all rail transports), and providing intelligence reports to the British intelligence agencies (providing 43% of all reports from occupied Europe). It was a part of the Polish Underground State.

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