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((Short description|Polish resistance movement during World War II))
((Distinguish|Union of Active Struggle))
((More citations needed|date=November 2007))
((Polish Underground State sidebar |expanded=Military))

The '''Union of Armed Struggle'''<ref>Thus rendered in [[Norman Davies]], ''God's Playground:  A History of Poland'', vol. II, p.  464.</ref> (((lang-pl|Związek Walki Zbrojnej)); '''ZWZ'''), also translated as the '''Union for Armed Struggle''', '''Association of Armed Struggle''', and '''Association for Armed Struggle''', was an [[Resistance movement|underground]] [[army]] formed in [[Poland]] following its [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|invasion]] in September 1939 by [[Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]] that opened [[World War II]]. It existed from 13 November 1939 until 14 February 1942, when it was renamed into [[Home Army]] (''Armia Krajowa, AK'').

Union of Armed Struggle was created from an earlier organization, [[Service for Poland's Victory]] (''SZP''). In January 1940, it was divided into two parts:
*areas under German occupation — commanded by Colonel [[Stefan Rowecki]], headquartered in [[Warsaw]];
*areas under Soviet occupation — commanded by General [[Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski]],  headquartered in [[Lwów]].

Formally, the Union of Armed Struggle was directed from [[Paris]], by General [[Kazimierz Sosnkowski]] (nom de guerre Jozef Godziemba), who after Poland's defeat escaped to France via [[Hungary]]. Due to practical problems, however, Sosnkowski's control of the organization was very limited. The instruction of General Sosnkowski, in which he ordered his subordinates to create regional branches of the Union of Armed Struggle, was brought to Warsaw on 4 December 1939. According to Sosnkowski, the Union of Armed Struggle was supposed to be a national military organization, without regard to political differences and social ranks. Furthermore, the idea of a national uprising at the moment of entry of regular Polish units was put forward by Sosnkowski and his staff.

After the [[Battle of France|fall of France]], on 18 June 1940, General [[Wladyslaw Sikorski]] named Colonel [[Stefan Rowecki]] his deputy, with the right to take urgent decisions without consent of the [[Polish government-in-exile]]. Sikorski urged Rowecki to closely cooperate with leaders of political parties, gathered in the [[Political Consultative Committee]]. The headquarters of the Union of Armed Struggle formally was under the authority of the Polish government in [[London]], but in reality, military powers were in hands of officers who remained in the occupied country, and had good knowledge of the reality of Nazi- and Soviet-controlled Poland.

After the arrest of General Michal Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, who was captured by the [[NKVD]] on the way from Warsaw to Lwow, the Union of Armed Struggle in [[Kresy|Eastern Poland]] was left without a leader. Following the [[Operation Barbarossa]], the whole territory of the [[Second Polish Republic]] found itself under German occupation.

==See also==
*[[Union of Active Struggle]] (founded 1908)

==Notes==
((Reflist))

==References==
*[[Norman Davies]], ''God's Playground:  A History of Poland, in Two Volumes; Volume II: 1795 to the Present'', New York, Columbia University Press, 1982, ((ISBN|0-231-05353-3)).

==External links==
*((in lang|pl)) [http://encyklopedia.interia.pl/haslo?hid=114919 ZWIĄZEK WALKI ZBROJNEJ], Encyklopedia Interia
*((in lang|pl)) [http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4002468 ZWIĄZEK WALKI ZBROJNEJ], Encyklopedia PWN
*((in lang|pl)) [http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/63013,,,,zwiazek_walki_zbrojnej,haslo.html ZWIĄZEK WALKI ZBROJNEJ], Encyklopedia WIEM
*[http://biega.com/museumAK/hak-e.html 1939-1942; Beginning of Secret Army; the ZWZ period]
*((in lang|pl)) [https://web.archive.org/web/20080415121439/http://www.dws.xip.pl/PW/pw6.html „Polska Podziemna”: Związek Walki Zbrojnej]

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