Editing Home Army (section)

=== Intelligence ===
{{further|History of Polish intelligence services#1939–1945}}
[[File:The Third Reich - polish resistance poster, German-occupied Poland, 1943.jpg|thumb|''Der Klabautermann'' (an [[Operation N]] magazine), 3 January 1943 issue, satirizing Nazi terror and genocide. From the right, emerging from the "III" (Roman numeral three", of the "[[Nazi Germany|Third Reich]]"): [[Himmler]], [[Hitler]], and [[Death]].]]
The Home Army supplied valuable [[Intelligence (information gathering)|intelligence]] to the Allies; 48 per cent of all reports received by the [[British secret services]] from continental Europe between 1939 and 1945 came from Polish sources.<ref name="Kochanski2012">{{cite book |last=Kochanski |first=Halik |title=The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ5vIyDBpLcC&pg=PA234 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |date=13 November 2012 |pages=234–236 |isbn=978-0-674-06816-2}}</ref> The total number of those reports is estimated at 80,000, and 85 per cent of them were deemed to be high quality or better.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Soybel |first=Phyllis L. |title=Intelligence Cooperation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II. The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=134025 |journal=[[Sarmatian Review]] |volume=XXVII |issue=1 |date=2007 |pages=1266–1267 |issn=1059-5872}}</ref> The Polish intelligence network grew rapidly; near the end of the war, it had over 1,600 registered agents.<ref name="Kochanski2012" />

The Western Allies had limited intelligence assets in Central and Eastern Europe. The extensive in-place Polish intelligence network proved a major resource; between the French capitulation and other Allied networks that were undeveloped at the time, it was even described as "the only [A]llied intelligence assets on the Continent".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schwonek|first=Matthew R.|date=2006-04-19|title=Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain during World War II: The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee, vol. 1 (review)|journal=The Journal of Military History|volume=70|issue=2 |pages=528–529 |s2cid=161747036 |issn=1543-7795 |doi=10.1353/jmh.2006.0128}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Peszke|first=Michael Alfred|date=2006-12-01|title=A Review of: "Intelligence Co-Operation between Poland and Great Britain during World War II — The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee"|journal=The Journal of Slavic Military Studies|volume=19|issue=4 |pages=787–790|doi=10.1080/13518040601028578|s2cid=219626554 |issn=1351-8046}}</ref><ref name="Kochanski2012" /> According to {{ill|Marek Ney-Krwawicz|pl|Marek Ney-Krwawicz}}, for the Western Allies, the intelligence provided by the Home Army was considered to be the best source of information on the Eastern Front.{{sfnp|Ney-Krwawicz|2001|p=98}}

Home Army intelligence provided the Allies with information on [[German concentration camps]] and [[the Holocaust in Poland]] (including [[Karski's reports|the first reports]] on this subject received by the Allies{{sfnp|Zimmerman|2015|p=54}}<ref name="Engel">{{Cite journal|last=Engel|first=David|date=1983|title=An Early Account of Polish Jewry under Nazi and Soviet Occupation Presented to the Polish Government-In-Exile, February 1940|journal=Jewish Social Studies|volume=45|issue=1|pages=1–16|issn=0021-6704|jstor=4467201}}</ref>), German submarine operations, and, most famously, [[Home Army and V1 and V2|the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket]].<ref name="MNK" />{{sfnp|Ney-Krwawicz|2001|p=98}} In one [[Project Big Ben]] mission ([[Operation Most III|Operation Wildhorn III]];<ref name="Wildhorn" /> Polish [[cryptonym]], ''Most III'', "Bridge III"), a stripped-for-lightness RAF twin-engine [[Douglas Dakota|Dakota]] flew from [[Brindisi]], [[Italy]], to an abandoned German airfield in Poland to pick up intelligence prepared by Polish aircraft-designer [[Antoni Kocjan]], including {{convert|100|lb|abbr=on}} of [[V-2 rocket]] wreckage from a [[Peenemünde]] launch, a ''Special Report 1/R, no. 242'', photographs, eight key V-2 parts, and drawings of the wreckage.<ref name="Kocjan" /> Polish agents also provided reports on the German war production, morale, and troop movements.<ref name="Kochanski2012" /> The Polish intelligence network extended beyond Poland and even beyond Europe: for example, the intelligence network organized by Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski in North Africa has been described as "the only [A]llied ... network in North Africa".<ref name="Kochanski2012" /> The Polish network even had two agents in the German high command itself.<ref name="Kochanski2012" />

The researchers who produced the first Polish–British in-depth monograph on Home Army intelligence (''Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II: Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee'', 2005) described contributions of Polish intelligence to the Allied victory as "disproportionally large"<ref name="StirlingNałęcz2005-32">{{cite book|title=Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II: Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee |editor1=Tessa Stirling|editor2=Daria Nałęcz|editor3=Tadeusz Dubicki|publisher=Vallentine Mitchell|year=2005|isbn=978-0-85303-656-2|page=32|quote=This tendency influenced the unwillingness to recognize the disproportionally large contribution of Polish Intelligence to the Allied victory over Germany|author=Anglo-Polish Historical Committee}}</ref> and argued that "the work performed by Home Army intelligence undoubtedly supported the Allied armed effort much more effectively than subversive and guerilla activities".<ref name="StirlingNałęcz2005-410">{{cite book|editor1=Tessa Stirling|editor2=Daria Nałęcz|editor3=Tadeusz Dubicki|author=Anglo-Polish Historical Committee|title=Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II: Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee|year=2005|publisher=Vallentine Mitchell|isbn=978-0-85303-656-2|page=410}}</ref>