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- The term usually refers to the Polish Home Army, or Armia Krajowa. Other meanings include:
- In respect of the Allied countries not invaded, such as Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States, the term might be used relating to the forces within the respective country concerned with that country's defence and security, or to differentiate between forces within that country and forces it had deployed outside its borders.
- More prevalent is the use of the term in reference to the overall force mustered and co-ordinated in occupied countries to provide resistance, intelligence and force by arms or sabotage against the occupier. Resistance, to varying degrees, existed in all occupied countries and some bodies, such as those listed below, either employed the term or were generally known by it:
- The German Wehrmacht Ersatzheer was the German Home Army during World War II, in charge of military personnel within the Reich itself. Several anti-Nazi officers of the Ersatzheer attempted to assassinate Hitler in the July 20 Plot as a prerequisite for taking domestic control away from the SS, Gestapo and other Nazi organisations by Operation Valkyrie [1]
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