Two Enemies within the Myth. Combat Activity of the Holly Cross Mountains Brigade of the National Armed Forces in the General Government in Light of Wehrmacht Documents Cover Image

W kręgu mitu dwóch wrogów. Aktywność bojowa Brygady Świętokrzyskiej Narodowych Sił Zbrojnych na terenie Generalnego Gubernatorstwa w świetle dokumentów Wehrmachtu
Two Enemies within the Myth. Combat Activity of the Holly Cross Mountains Brigade of the National Armed Forces in the General Government in Light of Wehrmacht Documents

Author(s): Bartosz Wójcik
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Military history, Recent History (1900 till today), Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne im. gen. broni Kazimierza Sosnkowskiego
Keywords: Holly Cross Mountains Brigade;National Armed Forces;Wehrmacht;anticommunism; National-Radical Camp;Polish Underground State;German occupation; Kielce region

Summary/Abstract: The image of the intense armed activity of the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade (Brygada Świętokrzyska) of the National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne, NSZ), which has been dominant in the literature of the last three decades and was directed against both the Germans and the communists, was based on Polish accounts. However, surviving Wehrmacht documents fundamentally question the previously held assumptions. This material shows that the anti-German effort of the NSZ unit was downright symbolic. However, the occupation structures appreciated the Brigade’s disproportionate achievements in combating the communist underground.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 166-194
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish
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