National Armed Forces

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 669 words | Copyright

National Armed Forces (Narodowe Sily Zbrojne, or NSZ) was a Polish partisan group whose fascist tendencies led it to break away from the Polish Home Army (see Poland, 4). In August 1943 its members attacked a communist People's Guard unit and later murdered several Jews in the Home Army's high command. An agreement for it to rejoin the Home Army then split its leadership. Some of its members fought in the Warsaw rising of August 1944; others, some 850 strong (the Holy Cross Brigade), escaped with German help to Czechoslovakia. Those remaining in Poland fought security police after the war and their leaders either fled to the West, or were caught and executed.

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