Underground Fighting Management (pl: KWP) – a command center of the Home Army Headquarters, established on July 15, 1943 from the merger of the Underground Fighting Management and the Civil Fighting Management. He managed the entire current and civil fight (including organizing attacks on senior German officials, actions to rescue prisoners from transports, prisons and hospitals).
Poster of the Underground Fighting Command informing about death sentences issued to Poles collaborating with the Germans, September 1943, photo: Wikipedia
The KWP was headed by the commander of the Home Army, his deputy was the chief of Staff of the Home Army Main Command, the Government Delegate for the Country was represented by the head of the Civil Fighting Command.
Home Army Main Command (AK HQ) – the work body of the Home Army commander.
The Main Command consisted of seven departments: Organizational, Information and Intelligence, Operational and Training, Quartermastery, Communications, Information and Propaganda Bureau, and Finance, and it also had its own chaplains.
Civil Fighting Command, (KWC) – a dispositional center for civil war, established at the turn of 1940 and 1941 as part of the Information Department of the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the ZWZ Main Command as a civil war department. In 1941, the unit was subordinated to the Government Delegation for Poland under the management of Stefan Korboński, joint plenipotentiary of the Government Delegate and the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army. The management operated with the help of a staff divided into departments: judicial, sabotage and diversion, radio information, armament, chemical, delegalization and registration of German crimes[3]. An advisory and executive body of the KWC was also established, called the Main Commission for Civil War (GKWC), which consisted of representatives of the parties that were part of the Political Coordinating Committee, hence its frequent name of "small PKP". The task of the GKWC was, on the one hand, to advise and assist the KWC, and on the other, to transmit its orders to the field through its organizational structures. The GKWC later included a representative of the Social Self-Defense Organization (SOS), a union of about twenty organizations, including: Pobudka, Chłopska Organizacja Wolności Racławice and the Front Odrodzenia Polski headed by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. The following also began cooperation with the KWC: the Socialist Combat Organization headed by Leszek Raabe and after his death by Włodzimierz Kaczanowski, the Union of Polish Syndicalists headed by Stefan Szwedowski and Kazimierz Zakrzewski and the Stronnictwo Zrywu Narodowy with Zygmunt Felczak and Feliks Widy-Wirski. Korboński's deputy was Marian Gieysztor (Krajewski), a hydrobiologist and professor at the University of Warsaw. Government Delegate Jan Piekałkiewicz in the Information Bulletin no. 47 of December 3, 1942, in a special appeal to the Polish society, informed about the establishment of the KWC: I call upon the entire Polish society to completely submit to the orders, statements and appeals of the Civil Struggle Management. The organ of the Civil Struggle was the biweekly Chronicle of Civil Struggle. In the bulletins it published, the KWC promoted sabotage without the use of weapons, passive resistance of society against the occupier, and called for a boycott of entertainment institutions and the press published by the Germans. Moreover, the KWC publications condemned servility, informing and people maintaining contacts with the Germans.
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