Who are we, and why do we chose to recreate the Polish Home Army (or "AK")?

The Polish Home Army was a remarkable military formation. While many other German-occupied nations fielded resistance forces to counter the nazis, the Polish Home Army was massive and arguably the largest and best-organized resistance movement of all occupied nations. This was in part due to the Polish nation's will to resist tyranny and occupation. It helps to remember that Poland was partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria in the late 1700's and did not again become an independent nation until 1919. Thus, Poland had only 20 years of being a sovereign nation before again being occupied. The will to resist foreign occupation was many generations strong by that point. What can also be attributed to Poland's massive resistance movement was the sheer brutality of the nazi occupation. No one was "safe". Not Polish Christians, not Polish Jews, nor were men, women and children of any persuasion for that matter, safe from horrific brutality. Millions upon millions of Polish citizens were murdered. By war's end, Poland had lost 20% of it's entire population. Thus when the resistance sprang to life, it did so with a vengeance. Literally included in the ranks were women and children - there were battalions of Polish Boy Scouts, who, in the peaceful recent past, learned how to set up tents, identify trees, plants and animals, who now were learning how to fire a German MP-40, make a molatov cocktail to disable German armor, and how to best effectively kill a man. The Home Army was extremely effective and tied up many German divisions who could be used elsewhere. The Poles curtailed large-scale operations and adopted a posture of waiting and growing in secret until the time to strike was right. This culminated in "Operation Tempest", otherwise known as the Warsaw Uprising, a desperate attempt to wrestle control of Warsaw away from the nazis before the Soviets arrived,  in which more Poles lost their lives than Japanese for instance, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined..

We chose to portray the Polish Home Army to teach others of this facet of WW2 history as well as to keep alive the memory of the Polish men women and children who chose to resist and not submit to tyranny.

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