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[[File:AK-soldiers_Parasol_Regiment_Warsaw_Uprising_1944.jpg|thumb|right|Soldiers of Batalion Zośka of Polish Home Army during Warsaw Uprising on 5 August 1944 in Gęsiówka]]
'''''Obóz Polski Walczącej''''' ('''''OPW,''''' '''Camp of Fighting Poland;''' or '''Fighting Poland Movement;''' or '''Polish Fighting Movement''') was a minor part of the [[Polish resistance movement in World War II]]. It operated from 1942 to 1944, centered in [[Warsaw]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.1944.pl/index.php?a=site_archiwum&STEP=03&id=107&page=0|title = Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego}}</ref> Its members had mostly belonged to the former [[political party]], [[Obóz Zjednoczenia Narodowego]] (Camp of National Unity, or 'Ozon'), part of the ''[[Sanacja]]'' movement. 

Organizers of this movement included Marshal [[Edward Rydz-Śmigły]] (who proposed its name) and [[Julian Piasecki]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.templumnovum.com/Templum/TN4-FG-09-pils.html |title=TEMPLUM NOVUM - kanonada narodowego romantyzmu |access-date=2006-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928210848/http://www.templumnovum.com/Templum/TN4-FG-09-pils.html |archive-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20070311133049/http://encyklopedia.wp.pl/sz_tresc.html?encid=1720058&szukajEnc=ob%F3z+polski+walcz%B1cej&enc_opis=1&score=&found=&szukane=</ref> who became its commandant. It became militarily subordinate to the [[Armia Krajowa]] from 1943 and eventually merged along with [[Konwent Organizacji Niepodległościowych]] (the Council of Independence Organizations) into [[Zjednoczenie Organizacji Niepodległościowych]] (the Union of Independence Organizations) in 1944.

== References ==
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*{{in lang|pl}} [http://encyklopedia.interia.pl/haslo?hid=91093 OBÓZ POLSKI WALCZĄCEJ] on [[Encyklopedia Interia]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312022907/http://biografie.genealogiapolska.pl/classifieds.php?a=2&b=206 Biography of Edward Rydz-Śmigły]

==Further reading==
*J. C. Malinowski, Piłsudczykowski Obóz Polski Walczącej (1940–1945). Zarys struktury i działalności, „Czasy Nowożytne”, t. 9, 2000, s. 152

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