National Armed Forces

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The National Armed Forces were a Polish underground military organization during World War II that fought against both Nazi German and Soviet occupation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Polish underground military organization
resistance movement
abbreviation NSZ
activeInConflict World War II
aimedFor establishment of a nationalist Polish state
restoration of independent Poland
commemoratedIn modern Poland
country Poland
endTime 1947
enemy Gestapo
NKVD
UB (Polish secret police)
surface form: Polish communist security services

Soviet partisans
foughtIn German occupation of Poland
Polish–Soviet War
surface form: Polish–Soviet conflict during World War II

Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
hasCharacteristic clandestine structure
conspiratorial organization
hasPart Holy Cross Mountains Brigade
hasSuccessor cursed soldiers
historicalRegion Central Europe
ideology anti-communism
right-wing nationalism
languageOfName Polish
mergedWith Home Army
nativeLabel National Armed Forces self-linksurface differs
surface form: Narodowe Siły Zbrojne
notableUnit Holy Cross Mountains Brigade
surface form: Holy Cross Mountains Brigade of the NSZ
operationalArea General Government
Kresy
surface form: Polish eastern borderlands

Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany
opposed Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
opposedIdeology Nazism
communism
opposedOrganization Armia Ludowa
Armia Ludowa
surface form: Gwardia Ludowa
partOf Polish Underground State
politicalWing Polish National Democrats
surface form: National Party (Poland)

National Radical Camp
recognizedAs part of anti-Nazi resistance in Poland
part of anti-communist resistance in Poland
startTime 1942
subjectOf historical controversy in Poland
timePeriod German occupation of Poland
surface form: German occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

early postwar period in Poland
usedTactics guerrilla warfare
intelligence gathering
sabotage

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National Armed Forces nativeLabel National Armed Forces self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Narodowe Siły Zbrojne
Ignacy Oziewicz memberOf National Armed Forces
Ignacy Oziewicz affiliation National Armed Forces
this entity surface form: National Armed Forces (NSZ)