Home Army

English

Home Army soldiers

Etymology

Calque of Polish Armia Krajowa.

Proper noun

(history) the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, during World War II.
During World War II, the Home Army was the largest underground army in Europe organized to fight the German (and Soviet) occupying forces.

Translations

Polish resistance movement

German: Polnische Heimatarmee f
Italian: Armata Nazionale f
Polish: Armia Krajowa (pl) f
Russian: Армия Крайова f (Armija Krajova)

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