Editing Home Army (section)

===Demographics===
The Home Army was intended to be a mass organisation that was founded by a core of prewar officers.<ref name="Enc. WIEM: AK"/> Home Army soldiers fell into three groups. The first two consisted of "full-time members": undercover operatives, living mostly in urban settings under false identities (most senior Home Army officers belonged to this group); and uniformed (to a certain extent) partisans, living in forested regions (''leśni'', or "forest people"), who openly fought the Germans (the forest people are estimated at some 40 groups, numbering 1,200–4,000 persons in early 1943, but their numbers grew substantially during [[Operation Tempest]]).{{r|Leslie|pp=234–235}} The third, largest group were "part-time members": sympathisers who led "double lives" under their real names in their real homes, received no payment for their services, and stayed in touch with their undercover unit commanders but were seldom mustered for operations, as the Home Army planned to use them only during a planned nationwide rising.{{r|Leslie|pp=234–235}}

The Home Army was intended to be representative of the Polish nation, and its members were recruited from most parties and social classes.{{r|Leslie|pp=235–236}} Its growth was largely based on integrating scores of smaller resistance organisations into its ranks; most of the other Polish underground armed organizations were incorporated into the Home Army, though they retained varying degrees of autonomy.<ref name="Enc. PWN: AK"/> The largest organization that merged into the Home Army was the leftist Peasants' Battalions ({{lang|pl|[[Bataliony Chłopskie]]}}) around 1943–1944,<ref name=WPH>{{cite book|title=Wojskowy przegla̜d historyczny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFJpAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=s.n.|page=134|language=pl}}</ref> and parts of the National Armed Forces (''[[Narodowe Siły Zbrojne]]'') became subordinate to the Home Army.<ref name="KonopkaKonopka1999">{{cite book|author1=Hanna Konopka|author2=Adrian Konopka|title=Leksykon historii Polski po II wojnie światowej 1944–1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vqe1AAAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Graf-Punkt|isbn=978-83-87988-08-1|page=130|language=pl}}</ref> In turn, individual Home Army units varied substantially in their political outlooks, notably in their attitudes toward ethnic minorities and toward the Soviets.{{r|Leslie|pp=235–236}} The largest group that completely refused to join the Home Army was the pro-Soviet, communist People's Army (''[[Armia Ludowa]]''), which numbered 30,000 people at its height in 1944.<ref name="Enc. PWN: AL"/>