Internal Security Corps

Internal Security Corps
Korpus Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego
Active	24 May 1965 - 1965
Country	Poland
Type	Armed force

The Internal Security Corps (

on 24 May 1945.

History

The KBW consisted of 10 new cavalry regiments, an infantry division, and two buffer brigades. The corps itself was subordinate to the

Between 1945 and 1954, the KBW fell under the responsibility of Minister

. Between March 1945 and April 1947 alone, units of the KBW killed over 1,500 "Cursed soldiers", wounded 301, and apprehended 12,200 others.

In 1965, the KBW was renamed the Wojska Obrony Wewnętrznej ("Internal Defense Force"). It was included in the framework of National Defense. Also, in 1962, the Silesian Unit of the Engineering Army (KBW-4) built roads in the Bieszczady region in the extreme south-east of Poland, strategically important but an uninhabited area.

Commanding officers

1. March 1945 – May 1945: Col. Henryk Toruńczyk
2. Jun 1945 – September 1946: Gen. Bolesław Kieniewicz
3. 1946–1948: Brigadier General Konrad Świetlik
4. 1948–1951: Brigadier General Juliusz Hibner (born Dawid Szwarc)
5. 1 March 1951 – 12 March 1965: Brigadier General Włodzimierz Muś
6. 12 March 1965 – 1 July 1965: Brigadier General Bronisław Kuriata

See also

• Internal Troops
  – Soviet model for the Internal Security Corps.
• Ministry of Public Security of Poland
• Operation Vistula (1947)
• Zygmunt Bauman

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Internal Security Corps.

• Narodowe Siły Zbrojne
• (in English) The Doomed soldiers – Polish Underground Soldiers 1944–1963 – The Untold Story
• (in Polish) Antykomunistyczne Podziemie Zbrojne po 1944 roku
• National Armed Forces Historical Brief