Post by Jerzy on Oct 28, 2010 13:20:20 GMT -5
Polecam wszystkim miłośnikom historii Polski.
Albo wszystkim fascynatom polskiej wojskowości.
The Museum of the Home Army (AK)
www.muzeum-ak.krakow.pl/english/index.php
Armia Krajowa, with over 400,000 members, was by far the largest Polish underground resistance movement. It constituted the armed wing of what became known as the "Polish Secret State" ("państwo podziemne"). It fought against German occupiers, some units also fought against Russians.
Armament used by the Home Army. Most was acquired from Germans, either legally (purchase) or illegally (force hahahaha).
Sometimes Polish pre-war weapons were used.
Uniforms
Of course they are not Germans!!! They are Polish boys turned partisans.
To widen the perspective, other uniforms can be seen too
A British battle-dress.
Badges
Pay attention to the one on the left - svastika - an old Slavic symbol.
Soldiers` personal property
Spying stuff
Arm bands
Banners, flags, standards
German announcement from September 1939 concerning Jewish property (its sale, transfer or storage was banned).
A German announcement from 1944, about the execution of 100 Polish hostages in retaliation for blowing up two German trains.
A communist propaganda poster from 1946, calling to support the communist regime during the rigged referendum (3 times Yes)
Plaques showing commanders and heroes of the Home Army.
When we were to the museum, it hosted the exhibition borrowed from the Navy Museum of Gdynia.
Victory, the flag ship of Admiral Nelson.
The Polish Navy banner
NOC MUZEÓW
Long Night of the Museums 2009.
Polish 1939 soldiers
Weapon cleansing tools.
A plaque about an AK soldier who died during the action against German military intsallations at the site.
Polish presidents announcement to Poles about the war on 1 Sept. 1939
A communist announcement to underground AK soldiers to come out of the hiding and give up their weapons.
AK men of merit
Katyn remembered
Brzozów - in 1944 AK forces broke a communist prison and freed 11 underground fighters from Soviet NKVD hands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raids_on_communist_prisons_in_Poland_(1944-1946)
Kąkolewnica- a village in northern Poland where in 1945 Polish Army courts under Soviet NKVD patronage executed an unknown number of Polish AK underground partisans - from a few dozen to a few hundred.
Reconstruction of burial site
Warsaw Rising memory
Execution sites
Victims by numbers
Due to reorganization and restructuring, Polish army has been selling their property in all parts of Poland. Ads with photos like that appear in Polish papers.
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Albo wszystkim fascynatom polskiej wojskowości.
The Museum of the Home Army (AK)
www.muzeum-ak.krakow.pl/english/index.php
Armia Krajowa, with over 400,000 members, was by far the largest Polish underground resistance movement. It constituted the armed wing of what became known as the "Polish Secret State" ("państwo podziemne"). It fought against German occupiers, some units also fought against Russians.
Armament used by the Home Army. Most was acquired from Germans, either legally (purchase) or illegally (force hahahaha).
Sometimes Polish pre-war weapons were used.
Uniforms
Of course they are not Germans!!! They are Polish boys turned partisans.
To widen the perspective, other uniforms can be seen too
A British battle-dress.
Badges
Pay attention to the one on the left - svastika - an old Slavic symbol.
Soldiers` personal property
Spying stuff
Arm bands
Banners, flags, standards
German announcement from September 1939 concerning Jewish property (its sale, transfer or storage was banned).
A German announcement from 1944, about the execution of 100 Polish hostages in retaliation for blowing up two German trains.
A communist propaganda poster from 1946, calling to support the communist regime during the rigged referendum (3 times Yes)
Plaques showing commanders and heroes of the Home Army.
When we were to the museum, it hosted the exhibition borrowed from the Navy Museum of Gdynia.
Victory, the flag ship of Admiral Nelson.
The Polish Navy banner
NOC MUZEÓW
Long Night of the Museums 2009.
Polish 1939 soldiers
Weapon cleansing tools.
A plaque about an AK soldier who died during the action against German military intsallations at the site.
Polish presidents announcement to Poles about the war on 1 Sept. 1939
A communist announcement to underground AK soldiers to come out of the hiding and give up their weapons.
AK men of merit
Katyn remembered
Brzozów - in 1944 AK forces broke a communist prison and freed 11 underground fighters from Soviet NKVD hands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raids_on_communist_prisons_in_Poland_(1944-1946)
Kąkolewnica- a village in northern Poland where in 1945 Polish Army courts under Soviet NKVD patronage executed an unknown number of Polish AK underground partisans - from a few dozen to a few hundred.
Reconstruction of burial site
Warsaw Rising memory
Execution sites
Victims by numbers
Due to reorganization and restructuring, Polish army has been selling their property in all parts of Poland. Ads with photos like that appear in Polish papers.
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