Polish Armed Forces (1917–1918)

[2] It was the armed forces of a puppet Kingdom of Poland envisioned by the Prussian Mitteleuropa Plan.

[4] The Polish Armed Forces was created on 10 April 1917, as a result of the Act of 5th November of 1916 and the creation of the Kingdom of Poland.

[citation needed] As a result of the Oath Crisis of July 1917, 3/4 of the soldiers of the Polish Legions declined to pledge loyalty to the German Kaiser.

Approximately 15,000 of them were confined in internment camps in Beniaminów and Szczypiorno, while almost 3,000 were drafted to the Austro-Hungarian Army.

After the command of the unit was transferred to the Polish Regency Council on 19 October 1918, the number soon reached 9,000.

Lieutenant uniform of the Polish Armed Forces
Recruitment poster for the Polnische Wehrmacht, 1918
The Chief of Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski in an Austro-Hungarian military uniform, 1918