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Operation ''Tempest'' ((ポーランド語:akcja „Burza”), sometimes referred in English as Operation ''Storm'') was a series of anti-Nazi uprisings conducted during World War II by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), the dominant force in the Polish resistance. Operation ''Tempest'' was aimed at seizing control of cities and areas occupied by the Germans while they were preparing their defenses against the advancing Soviet Red Army. Polish underground civil authorities aimed at taking power before the arrival of the Soviets. ==History== From its inception the Home Army had been preparing a national armed rising against the Germans. The basic framework of the future rising was created in September 1942. According to the plan, the Uprising was to be ordered by the Polish Commander-in-Chief in exile when the defeat of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front became apparent. The Uprising was to begin in Central Poland: in the "General Gouvernement", Zagłębie, Kraków Voivodeship, and the Białystok and Brześć areas. The Uprising's basic objectives were to: # end the German occupation; # seize arms and supplies needed for a Polish regular army on Polish soil; # counter the threat from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (see Massacres of Poles in Volhynia); # rebuild a regular Polish Army; # rebuild civil authority, communications, and an arms industry; # maintain peace and order behind the front lines; and # begin offensive operations against Wehrmacht forces still on Polish soil. Reconstruction of a Polish regular army was to be based on the prewar Polish order of battle. Home Army units were to be turned into regular divisions. Initially to be created were 16 infantry divisions, three cavalry brigades and one motorized brigade, to be equipped with captured weapons or with arms and supplies delivered by the Allies. The second phase was to see the re-building of an additional 15 divisions and 5 cavalry brigades which, before World War II, had been stationed in eastern and western Poland. The plan was partly implemented. Beginning in 1943, Home Army units were grouped into larger units bearing the names and numbers of prewar Polish divisions, brigades and regiments. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Tempest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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