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''Obóz Polski Walczącej'' (''OPW,'' Camp of Fighting Poland; or Fighting Poland Movement; or Polish Fighting Movement) was a minor part of the

Polish resistance movement in World War II In Poland, the Resistance during World War II, resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines to the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front ...

. It operated from 1942 to 1944, centered in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. Its members had mostly belonged to the former

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Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego ''Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego'' (, OZN; ), often called ''Ozon'' (Polish for "ozone"), was a Polish political party founded in 1937 by sections of the leadership in the Sanation movement. A year after the 1935 death of Poland's Chief of State ...

(Camp of National Unity, or 'Ozon'), part of the ''

Sanacja Sanation (, ) was a Polish political movement that emerged in the interwar period, prior to Józef Piłsudski's May Coup (Poland), May 1926 ''Coup d'État'', and gained influence following the coup. In 1928, its political activists went on to fo ...

'' movement. Organizers of this movement included Marshal

Edward Rydz-Śmigły Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz also called Edward Rydz-Śmigły, (11 March 1886 – 2 December 1941) was a Polish people, Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and ...

(who proposed its name) and

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,https://web.archive.org/web/20070311133049/http://encyklopedia.wp.pl/sz_tresc.html?encid=1720058&szukajEnc=ob%F3z+polski+walcz%B1cej&enc_opis=1&score=&found=&szukane= who became its commandant. It became militarily subordinate to the

Armia Krajowa The Home Army (, ; 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) established in the ...

from 1943 and eventually merged along with Konwent Organizacji Niepodległościowych (the Council of Independence Organizations) into Zjednoczenie Organizacji Niepodległościowych (the Union of Independence Organizations) in 1944.

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Biography of Edward Rydz-Śmigły

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