kotwica
Sign in to savethumb|150px|On a monument to the Warsaw Uprising at the in Warsaw
Key facts
- Emblem.name
- Kotwica
- Emblem.image
- Kotwica jako symbol Polski Walczącej.svg
- Emblem.year_adopted
- 1942
- Emblem.badge
- Letters P and W forming an anchor
- Emblem.use
- Home Army
- Emblem.designer
- Anna Smoleńska
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thumb|150px|On a monument to the Warsaw Uprising at the in Warsaw
The '''''' (; Polish for 'anchor') was an emblem of the Polish Underground State and (AK; 'Home Army') used during World War II. It was created in 1942 by members of the Wawer minor sabotage unit within the AK, as an easily usable emblem for the struggle to regain the country's independence. The initial meaning of the initialism PW was (We shall avenge Wawer), in reference to the 1939 Wawer massacre, which was considered to be one of the first large scale massacres of Polish civilians by German troops in occupied Poland.
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