Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa (
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
for "National Security Corps", abbreviated ''PKB''; sometimes also called ''Kadra Bezpieczeństwa'') was a Polish underground
police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...
force organized under
German
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**Ge ...
occupation during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
by the Polish
Home Army
The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) est ...
and
Government Delegation for Poland
The Government Delegation for Poland ( pl, Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj) was an agency of the Polish Government in Exile during World War II. It was the highest authority of the Polish Secret State in occupied Poland and was ...
. It was trained as the core of a future police force for a planned Polish all-national uprising, and for after Poland's liberation. The Corps' first commander was Lt. Col.
Marian Kozielewski. He was later replaced by
Stanisław Tabisz. In October 1943 the ''PKB'' had 8,400 officers; by early 1944 the number had grown to almost 12,000.
The PKB was created by the Department of the Internal Affairs of the
Delegate's Office in 1940, mostly from members of the pre-war Polish police and volunteers. PKB carried out
investigation and
criminal intelligence
Criminal intelligence is information compiled, analyzed, and/or disseminated in an effort to anticipate, prevent, or monitor criminal activity.
The United States Army Military Police Corps defines criminal intelligence as information gathered or c ...
duties as well as gathered reports of the
Gestapo
The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one orga ...
and
Kripo
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in the
General Government. It enforced the verdicts prepared by the
Directorate of Civil Resistance
Directorate of Civil Resistance (Polish ''Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej'', short KWC) was one of the branches of the Polish Government Delegate’s Office during World War II. Its main tasks were to maintain the morale of the Polish society, encou ...
and
Directorate of Underground Resistance
Directorate of Underground Resistance (, ''KWP'') was an agency of the Polish Underground State created during World War II.
History
The Directorate of Underground Resistance was created in 1943 from the Directorate of Civil Resistance and the ...
and passed by the
Underground court.
A unit of PKB commanded by
Henryk Iwański purportedly distinguished itself during the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; pl, powstanie w getcie warszawskim; german: link=no, Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany' ...
in 1943. However, according to the work of a Polish-Israeli research team (Dr. Dariusz Libionka and Dr. Laurence Weinbaum), much of what Henryk Iwański wrote should be relegated to the realm of confabulation or manipulation of the Communist secret police.
[Dariusz Libionka & Laurence Weinbaum - Bohaterowie, hochsztaplerzy, opisywacze Wokół Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego (Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów, 2011). See also: Dariusz Libionka & Laurence Weinbaum: "A Legendary Commander" Haaretz, June 22, 2007. http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/a-legendary-commander-1.223769]
See also
*
Workers' Militia PPS-WRN
External links
Polish Police during World War II(Polish)
References
{{Armia Krajowa
Poland in World War II
Defunct law enforcement agencies of Poland
Units and formations of the Home Army