Kedyw

Kedyw (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkɛdɨf], partial acronym of Kierownictwo Dywersji ("Directorate of Sabotage")[1] was a Polish World War II Home Army unit that conducted active and passive sabotage, propaganda and armed operations against Nazi German forces and collaborators.

[2] Kedyw was created on January 22, 1943, from two pre-existing Armia Krajowa organisations: Związek Odwetu (Association of Retaliation), and Wachlarz.

Kedyw organized weapon and munition factories, military schools, intelligence, counter-intelligence, field hospitals and a communication network.

[3] Most members of Kedyw were Boy Scouts from Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego and its wartime organisation, Szare Szeregi.

Many of the officers were cichociemni, who were special agents trained in the United Kingdom and parachuted into occupied Poland.

Biuletyn Informacyjny from March 9, 1944, informing about the execution of the death penalty for "killing two citizens of Polish Jewish nationality" by Kedyw.
Insurgents from the Kedyw's Kolegium A on Stawki Street in the Wola district - Warsaw Uprising 1944
Members of Kedyw General Staff during the Warsaw Uprising : (from left) Jan Mazurkiewicz , Wacław Chojna, unknown soldier and Stanisław Wierzyński