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The National Military Union (Polish : Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe; NZW) was a Polish anti-Communist organization, founded in November 1944, after the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising. It was among the largest and strongest resistance organisations established in the PRL in mid and late 1940s.[ citation needed ] The NZW was the result of a merger between the National Armed Forces and the National Military Organization. [1] The NZW's name was intentioned to differentiate itself from the National Armed Forces. [2] The National Military Union was aligned with and supported the Polish government-in-exile. [3]
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NZW's first commander was Colonel Tadeusz Danilewicz, then Colonel Bogusław Banasik. The organisation was organised into sixteen "areas" and was most active in the districts of Białystok, Lublin and Rzeszów. It had several armed units, called Pogotowie Walki Zbrojnej, which fought many skirmishes with both the NKVD and the Soviet Red Army. Its headquarters were destroyed in early spring of 1946, when Stalinist secret police arrested hundreds of its members. However, several units remained active until the mid-1950s.[ citation needed ]
