New English-Language National Armed Forces Website

This website will contain investigative reports, research articles, operational reports, and profiles of individual soldiers and units of the National Armed Forces, NZS (pol. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne) - an anti-nazi, and anti-communist patriotic Polish underground organization operating on the Nazi and Soviet occupied territory of Poland during and after II World War.

Preface:

It is difficult to consider the tragedy of heroism and betrayal without telegraphing a strong point of view on the subject.

And so we come to NZS (Narodowe Sily Zbrojne; Eng: National Armed Forces), which tenaciously fought both the Nazi and Soviet Union forces during World War II in Poland. Both adversaries were more that eager to co-opt such people as they could find to support them, and the Soviet's found many to support the puppet regime they installed after the war. These people, many part of the nascent UB (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa; Eng. Public Security; Polish Communist: secret police), had no qualms about assassination and torture, much less deception, slander and libel in suppressing genuine patriots.

Torture Methods of Polish Secret Police

UB (pol. Urzad Bezpieczenstwa, Bezpieka ) and SB (pol. Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa) expended considerable efforts to "break" the men and women who fell into their hands. There are three main utilitarian motivations for subjecting people to torture: extract information, terrorize those still at large and resistant, and to break down the personality and rebuild it in more pliable ways.

Ryszard Mikolajczuk, nom de guerre "Szkot", NSZ (National Armed Forces) soldier.

I was arrested on July 3, 1948 in Sidlce. The initial investigation and the interrogations that followed took place at the MO [People’s Militia; pol. Milicja Obywatelska] headquarters in Sidelce. The interrogations lead by [Polish secret police] interrogator [named] Kowalczyk took place in a large room adjacent to his government-issued apartment. The front door to the room was guarded by armed [secret police] sentry.

Before the interrogations began, I had to strip naked. From beginning to the end of interrogations, I would hear more cursing and profanities in Russian than in Polish. Whether I answered any questions or not, I was beaten with a riding riding crop called “nahayka”. When the interrogator got tired of hitting me with the riding crop he would start over again, this time hitting me with an edge of a long ruler. Helped by another functionary, whom he would call to assist him, he would strike the most intimate parts of my body. These interrogations would last usually between 3 to 6 hours. In order to make this “play” more fun, they would also use various electrical devices. One of the functionaries would attach the end of a cable to my finger, and the other cranked the generator. The faster he cranked the more I was shocked; it felt as if my entire body was being torn to pieces from within.

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General Emil Fieldorf's Remains Located

The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) located remains and burial place of General Emil Fieldorf, nom de guerre "Nile" who was murdered in 1953 by the communist henchmen form the UB (Polish secret police). General Fieldorf, "Nile" was the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Home Army (pol. Armia Krajowa - abr. AK) during Second World War.

- I am 84 years old and I spent my entire life trying to locate remains of my father. I am afraid that I will not live long enough to find them - told "Poland" Maria Fieldorf-Czarska, the daughter of General "Nil".

However, Jacek Pawlowicz reassures that the exhumation will begin as early as September or November of this year. [...] - The remains of the General will be easy to identify - says Pawlowicz - because he was the only one from among those executed who was not killed with a shot to the head (a common execution method employed by the secret police and perfected during the Katyn masacre). In order to humiliate him, the murderers from the UB hang General "Nil" as if he was a common criminal.

A moving documentary dedicated to the Mrs. Fieldorf's nearly 50-years-long pursuit to bring to justice individuals responsible for the murder of her father will be republished on our website with English subtitles.