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Glossary · Security apparatus of the Polish People's Republic

Internal Military Service (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna, WSW)

A service within the armed forces of the Polish People's Republic whose tasks included counterintelligence protection of soldiers and military employees; it had its own categories of cases and collaborators.

Description based on the glossary of the IPN Archival Inventory.1

Sources

  1. Institute of National Remembrance, IPN archival inventory – Glossary, letter K (in Polish)

Checked: 4 November 2026