After the
Polish Army in the United Kingdom
had been formed, became the pillars of the
Polish resistance in France.
Origin
That resistance started to organize under the inspiration of Consul General
Polish government in exile in London, helped by an emissary
Czesław Bitner.
[1][2] The organization was founded on 6 September 1941, in collaboration with the
French Resistance. Its mission was intelligence, sabotage, writing and distribution of underground newspapers in Polish, and burning pro-Nazi German literature, such as newspapers, or biographies of supporters of fascism. The ability to parachute consisted of 60 bases in 20 reception in the south, 41 in the North and Center, according to messages sent by the French section of the
BBC. Officers, weapons, radio equipment, and explosives were thus parachuted.
[2]The night of 22 to 23 July 1943, when Colonel
Polska Organizacja Walki o Niepodległość - Polish Organization for the Struggle for Independence.
[2] In 1943, the Organization had 4000 members.
[2]Activities
Colonel Zdrojewski was Chief of the Polish Military Operations in France. He was in close contact with General
Vercors. Of the 27 Poles, mostly aged 16 to 19 years, 11 died, as did 2 teachers and the doctor of the school.
[2]Units of the POWN fought alongside FFI in the Departments of the
Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) and POWN the battle groups headed by Colonel Zdrojewski were attached to the movement of FFI on the basis of an agreement with
Lyon on 28 May 1944 between the General
Chaban-Delmas, Chief Military Provisional Government of the Republic of France and General Zdrojewski.
[2]Other Polish resistance groups in France
POWN was not the only Polish group involved in the Resistance in France. Other resistance groups were similar to those issued by the
Other units made of foreign Jews were active, with the identity or name "Jews born in Poland." In 1944, they began to train Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) who supported the policy of communism Poland, it was opposed to the POWN under the command of the Polish government in exile in London.[2]
Members of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS; a mainstream political party in Poland prior to the war) had created two underground organizations in the Department du Nord Pas de Calais early in 1941, the Organization and S Orzel Bialy (White Eagle). Both organizations were designed to inform the Poles in France on military developments and spread the idea of resistance to the Germans.[2]
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