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Secret Polish Army

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Founder
  
Witold Pilecki

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Tajna Armia Polska, TAP (Secret Polish Army) was a Resistance movement founded in November 1939 in German-occupied Poland, which was active in the areas of the Warsaw, Podlasie, Kielce and Lublin Voivodships.

Founders were:

  • Lieutenant Colonel Jan Henryk Włodarkiewicz "Darwicz" - Chief of the Staff
  • Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki "Witold"
  • Lieutenant Colonel Władysław Surmacki "Stefan"

    • The organization up to 19,000 members at its peak. In 1940 it joined the Konfederacja Narodu. In 1941 it became part of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).

    References

    Secret Polish Army Wikipedia
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