{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Forgotten Army: Poland’s Armia Krajowa","description":"A major army, 400,000 strong, made a major difference in World War 2. Yet it doesn’t get enough attention in the West (nor, unfortunately, on this podcast). It’s the Armia Krajowa, the Polish Home Army. From exposing the Holocaust, to breaking the German Enigma Code, to helping destroy V-2 rockets, the AK bridged the Eastern and Western Fronts of the Second World War.\n\nMap 1: German invasion of Poland, September 1939\n\nMap 2: Soviet invasion of Poland, September 1939\n\nHistoric photos\n\nFlag of the Armia Krajowa, Polish Home Army\n\nGen. Michal Tadeusz Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz second-in-command of the Army of Warsaw\n\nWladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of Polish Government-in-Exile\n\nElzbieta Zawacka, “Agent Zo\"\n\nElzbieta Zawacka’s story, Agent Zo by Clare Mulley (https://claremulley.com/books/agent-zo/)\n\n\n\nJewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 1943\n\n\n\nSS burns the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943\n\n\n\nSS transports Jewish survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto to extermination camps\n\nAK fighters\n\nPolish Boy Scouts in AK, 1944\n\n\n\nWomen members of AK\n\n\n\nEnigma, the German coding machine\n\nThe three Polish cryptologists who broke the German Enigma code: left to right, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki, and Henryk Zygalski\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSources:\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nRichard Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1986, and University of Kentucky Press, 1986.\n\nHome Army Museum/Muzeum Armii Krajowej, https://muzeum-ak.pl/\n\nWikipedia, various pages.\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762353/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}