Operation Heads

[1] Operation Heads was the response of Polish Resistance fighters of the Home Army to Nazi terror in Poland.

On the streets of Polish cities, the non-Jewish population was targeted by the łapanka policy, in which Nazi forces indiscriminately rounded up, kidnapped and murdered civilians.

Daily lists of Poles to be executed in the event of any attack upon Nazi troopers were published.

In retribution for these acts of terrorism, the Polish Underground leadership prepared lists of Nazi leaders to be eliminated for the said crimes against civilian non-combatants.

From August to December 1942, the Home Army carried out 87 attacks on the German administration and members of the occupation forces.