Kedyw
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kierownictwo Dywersji Komendy Głównej Armii Krajowej, Kierownictwo Dywersji Komendy Głównej AK, Kierownictwo Dywersji, Kedyw KG AK, Kierownictwo Dywersji KG AK
Kedyw (, partial acronym of Kierownictwo Dywersji ("Directorate of Sabotage") 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.
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Kedyw (, partial acronym of Kierownictwo Dywersji ("Directorate of Sabotage") 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.
==Operations== thumb|Biuletyn Informacyjny from March 9, 1944, informing about the execution of the death penalty for "killing two citizens of Polish Jewish nationality" by Kedyw. Kedyw was created on January 22, 1943, from two pre-existing Home Army organisations: the Union of Retaliation and Wachlarz. Initially, the units were small and town-based. Eventually, as more were formed, some moved into forested areas to begin partisan warfare. Kedyw organized weapon and munition factories, military schools, intelligence, counter-intelligence, field hospitals and a communication network.