Secret Polish Army

Tajna Armia Polska, TAP (Secret Polish Army) was a Resistance movement founded in November 1939 in German-occupied Poland, which was active in the areas of the Warsaw, Podlasie, Kielce and Lublin Voivodships.

Founders were:


 * Lieutenant Colonel Jan Henryk Włodarkiewicz "Darwicz" - Chief of the Staff
 * Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki "Witold"
 * Lieutenant Colonel Władysław Surmacki "Stefan"

The organization counted a dozen thousand of members. In 1940 it joined the Konfederacja Narodu. In 1941 it became part of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).