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{{Short description|World War Two Polish underground police force}}
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'''Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa''' ([[Polish language|Polish]] for "National Security Corps", abbreviated '''''PKB'''''; sometimes also called '''''Kadra Bezpieczeństwa''''', abbreviated '''''KB''''') was a Polish underground [[police]] force organized under [[Nazi Germany|German]] occupation during [[World War II]] by the Polish [[Home Army]] and [[Government Delegation for Poland]]. It was trained as the core of a future police force for a planned Polish all-national uprising, and for after Poland's liberation. The Corps' first commander was Lt. Col. [[Marian Kozielewski]]. He was later replaced by [[Stanislaw Tabisz|Stanisław Tabisz]]. In October 1943 the ''PKB'' had 8,400 officers; by early 1944 the number had grown to almost 12,000.

The PKB was created by the Department of the Internal Affairs of the [[Government Delegate's Office at Home|Delegate's Office]] in 1940, mostly from members of the pre-war Polish police and volunteers. PKB carried out [[Criminal procedure|investigation]] and [[criminal intelligence]] duties as well as gathered reports of the [[Gestapo]] and [[Kripo]] in the [[General Government]]. It enforced the verdicts prepared by the [[Directorate of Civil Resistance]] and [[Directorate of Underground Resistance]] and passed by the [[Underground court]].

A unit of PKB commanded by [[Henryk Iwański]] purportedly distinguished itself during the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] in 1943. However, according to the work of a Polish-Israeli research team (Dr. Dariusz Libionka and Dr. Laurence Weinbaum), much of what Henryk Iwański wrote should be relegated to the realm of confabulation or manipulation of the Communist secret police.<ref>Dariusz Libionka & Laurence Weinbaum - Bohaterowie, hochsztaplerzy, opisywacze Wokół Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego (Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów, 2011). See also: Dariusz Libionka & Laurence Weinbaum: "A Legendary Commander" Haaretz, June 22, 2007. https://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/a-legendary-commander-1.223769</ref>

==See also==
* [[Workers' Militia PPS-WRN]]

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070523120756/http://www.wspol.edu.pl/wspol/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=45 Polish Police during World War II] (Polish)

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