National Military Union

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Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe (National Military Union, NZW) was a Polish anti-Communist organization, founded in November 1944, after collapse of the Warsaw Uprising. It was among the largest and strongest resistance organizations established in the Soviet-controlled Poland in mid- and late 1940s. The NZW consisted mostly of members of destroyed Narodowe Sily Zbrojne and disbanded Armia Krajowa.^{[citation needed]}

NZW's first commander was Colonel , then Colonel . The organization was organized into sixteen "areas" and was most active in the districts of Białystok, Lublin and Rzeszów. It had several armed units, called , which fought many skirmishes with both NKVD and Soviet Red Army. Its headquarters were destroyed in early spring of 1946, when Communist secret police arrested hundreds of its members. However, several units remained active until mid-1950s.^{[citation needed]}

See also[]

• Cursed soldiers

Sources[]

• http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/39559,,,,narodowe_zjednoczenie_wojskowe,haslo.html
• http://powstanie-warszawskie-1944.ac.pl/zw_nzw.htm
• http://www.zebrane-doswiadczenia.salon24.pl/30841,index.html

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