National Military Union

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Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe (National Military Union, NZW) was a Polish anti-Communist organization, founded in November of 1944, after collapse of the Warsaw Uprising. It was one of the biggest and strongest of all such organizations, which were numerous in Soviet-controlled Poland in mid- and late 1940s and it mostly consisted of members of disbanded Narodowe Sily Zbrojne and Armia Krajowa.

NZW’s first commander was Colonel Tadeusz Danilewicz, then Colonel Boguslaw Banasik. The organization was divided into sixteen “areas” and it was most active in districts of Bialystok, Lublin and Rzeszow. It had several armed units, called Pogotowie Walki Zbrojnej, which fought many skirmishes with both NKVD and Red Army. Its headquarters were destroyed in early spring of 1946, when Communist special services arrested hundreds of members. However, several units remained active until mid-1950s.