Kedyw

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Kedyw (Polish pronunciation:

Kedyw was created on January 22, 1943, from two pre-existing

Most members of Kedyw were

• the sabotaging of railways, bridges and roads
  • the burning of trains and fuel depots
• the destruction or damaging of weapon factories working for the Wehrmacht
• the liberation of hundreds of prisoners and hostages
  • a famous such operation took place on March 26, 1943 and is known as "
    Akcja pod Arsenałem
    "
• executions of Nazi collaborators and traitors sentenced by an underground court
  • one of them involved Igo Sym, a Polish actor who had been informing the Germans about Home Army operations
• executions of particularly-brutal individuals among the German occupation troops,
  Operation Heads^[3]
  • those executed included
    Franz Bürkl and many others (more than 2,000 people). Such individuals were officially sentenced to death for their crimes by the Polish Underground State
    court, which was delivered to those individuals. Many could not stand the pressure and returned to Reich.
• Operation Belt

Warsaw Uprising

Prior to the

• Brigadier-General
  Emil August Fieldorf
  (Nil) (until March 1944)
• Jan Mazurkiewicz (Radosław) (until August 1944)

Bibliography

• HENRYK WITKOWSKI "KEDYW" OKRĘGU WARSZAWSKIEGO ARMII KRAJOWEJ W LATACH 1943 - 1944", Instytut Wydawniczy Związków Zawodowych 1985,
  ISBN 83-202-0217-5
  ,
• Rybicka Hanna "Kedyw okręgu Warszawa Armii Krajowej Dokumenty - rok 1944", Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2009,
  ISBN 978-83-235-0508-2
• Drzyzga Bernard "Kedyw Okręgu AK Łódź i 60 Pułk AK", 1988,
• Jan Gozdawa-Gołębiowski "Kedyw "Białowieży", Książka i Wiedza 1990,
  ISBN 978-83-05-11968-9
  ,

• Armia Krajowa
• Cichociemni
• Polish Secret State
• Kotwica

References