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Before the outbreak
Before the outbreak of the War, Poland was a multi-national state with ethnic poles compromising about 68% of the population. Around 500,000 people who were citizens of Poland before 1939 were drafted into the German armed forces during the War. -
Defeat
The Polish Home Army was eventually defeated after fighting way over a month against the Germans, who barely won the fight due to great losses in their army. -
German losses
The German losses contain of around 16,000 soldiers killed in action, 28,000 soldiers were wounded, over 2000 air crafts destroyed, and 30% of their armored vehicles sabotaged. -
Polish casualities
The Polish causalities consisted of 66,000 soldiers dead and 694,0000 captured by the Germans. Though the German attack was successful, the losses were greater than what was naturally expected. -
Main resistance
The main resistance force in the Nazi-occupied Poland was the Polish Home Army, which also had put on a very great fight against the German's, crippling the German's greatly. -
The uprising
The polish Home Army started a nationwide uprising against the Nazi forces. Before that, the Polish Home Army carried out thousands of raids and intelligence operations. -
United Kingdom and France
The United Kingdom and France declared War on Germany due to Hitler gambling incorrectly that France and Britain would allow him to annex parts of Poland without Military reaction. -
Prisoners
There were 46,000 prisoners that were detained in the Soviet Union camps that were traded by 44,000 POW's that were released by the Germans. -
Occupation
The Soviet Union and Germany have been occupying Poland for a long time during World War II -
The founding
On November 9th, 1943, the Polish Home Army was founded by two soldiers. The secret Polish Army had expanded to cover not only Warsaw but Siedlce, Radom, Lublin, and other major cities of Central Poland. -
Polish Home Army
The Polish Home Army was the most dominant resistance movement in Poland that was currently occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II -
Sabotage
The Polish Home Army had sabotaged the German operations such as the transports that were headed for the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union. -
Number of losses
The German's losses to the polish Partisans averaged 850-1,700 per month in early 1944 compared to about 250-320 per month in 1942 -
Allies
Most of Britain's intelligence from Germany came from the Polish Home Army until the end the Home Army would remain Britain's main source of intelligence from Central and Eastern Europe. -
The agents
During the war, the Home Army's agents supplied 22,047 agent reports, out of 45,770 received by the British intelligence. That's around half of the reports that were received. -
The numbers of lossage
The Polish Army had approximately 8,000 men and over than half of the men were armed. They had around 20 machine guns and several anit-tank rifles. The organization was incorporated into the Union for Armed Struggle, later renamed and better known as the Polish Home Army. -
The numbers
The size when the Polish Home Army first began was around 100,000 members. At the beginning of 1943 it reached a strength of about 200,000. In the Summer of 1944 they reached their highest membership which consisted of 300,000 to 500,000 members. -
Military Formation
Following the takeover of Poland by Soviets from Nazi Germany , the Polish Home Army was recognized into a Poland-based military formation. -
Battles
The Polish Home Army and Nazi Germany has had many full-scale battles together that were against each other. -
British Command
Eventually, with about 40,000 combatants and 70,000 civilian, it was transferred to the British Command in the middle Est in Egypt becoming the Polish II Corps a part of the Polish Armed forces in the West.
