The Partisans initiated a guerrilla campaign that developed into the largest resistance army in occupied Western and Central Europe.

Studies mostly cite the causes of death due to starvation or as caused ( ultimately by the lack-of-food induced ) weakening of resistance to endemic diseases which repeatedly reached epidemic proportions amongst the general Central European population — the German states were the battle ground and staging areas for the largest mercenary armies theretofore, and the armies foraged amongst the many provinces stealing the food of those people forced onto the roads as refugees, or still on the lands, regardless of their faith and allegiances.

Throughout most of the war, AK could be considered one of the three largest resistance movements in the war.

" M. K. Dziewanowski has noted that " if Polish forces fighting in the east and west were added to the resistance fighters, Poland had the fourth largest Allied army in the war ( after the USSR, the U. S. and Britain )".

b Sources vary with regards to what was the largest resistance movement during World War II.

Several sources note that Polish Armia Krajowa was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe.

For example, Norman Davies wrote " Armia Krajowa ( Home Army ), the AK, which could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance "; Gregor Dallas wrote " Home Army ( Armia Krajowa or AK ) in late 1943 numbered around 400000, making it the largest resistance organization in Europe "; Mark Wyman wrote " Armia Krajowa was considered the largest underground resistance unit in wartime Europe ".

Certainly, Polish resistance was the largest resistance till German invasion of Yugoslavia and invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

In 1920, Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed in Irkutsk, which effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance.

" Estimates of its membership in 1944 range from 200, 000 to 600, 000, with the most common number being 400, 000 ; that figure would make it not only the largest Polish underground resistance movement but one of the three largest in Europe during World War II.

By September 1945, control of major infrastructure installations, including railway stations and trams in Java's largest cities, had been taken over by Republican pemuda who encountered little Japanese resistance.

The largest resistance movement fighting Cambodia's communist government was largely made up of members of the former Khmer Rouge regime, whose human rights record was among the worst of the 20th century.

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Since this new development is proposed on the site of the largest remaining area of open space, commonly called the " Burlington Landlocked Forest " ( see below ), there is significant resistance from the town meeting, the Conservation Commission, and the general population.

The largest of these organizations at present denies to the full time educator any vote on the conduct and standards of the group and, indeed, refuses him even the right to attach the customary initials after his name in the college catalog.

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The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

The remaining twenty pieces cover problems in physics and ethics, of which the largest group deals with questions of vision and light, and the final four with fate and providence.

This, he claimed, discriminated against non-Anglicans, including Catholics, who are the largest faith group in Canada.

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In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group of Christians in the world.

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ALADI is now the largest Latin-American group of integration.

The largest island of the Amakusa group is Shimoshima, which is 26. 5 miles long and 13. 5 miles in extreme width ().

In the United States, the largest barter exchange and corporate trade group is TransMedia Barter, founded in 1993, now with representation in various countries.

Starting in 1903, the largest group emigrated to the Patagonia region of Argentina.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

The Araucanians, a fragmented society of hunters, gatherers, and farmers, constituted the largest native American group in Chile.

It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers ' Union ( EBCU ).

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

Following the discovery, starting in the 1990s, of other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto began to be seen not as a planet orbiting alone at 40 AU, but as the largest of a group of icy bodies in that region of space.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

The Orkney-Cromarty group is by far the largest and most diverse.

Their classification is divided into the small and large rank cases, where the rank is the largest rank of an odd abelian subgroup normalizing a nontrivial 2-subgroup, which is often ( but not always ) the same as the rank of a Cartan subalgebra when the group is a group of Lie type in characteristic 2.

Largely financed, trained, equipped, armed and organized by the U. S., it emerged as the largest and most active contra group.

Rose, head of Compaq's Enterprise Computing group, was reportedly upset that he was not considered for the CEO vacancy ; his division reportedly accounted for one third of Compaq's revenues and likely the largest part of its profits.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the Chacoan Great Houses, stands at the foot of Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon's northern rim.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

Michelin has an important truck tire manufacturing plant in Waterville and the Department of National Defence has its largest air force base in Atlantic Canada located at CFB Greenwood along with an important training facility at Camp Aldershot, near Kentville.

The majority of Southeast Alaska's area is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States ' largest national forest.

British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.

Hers was the largest gift at that time to the National Trust and it enabled the preservation of the lands now included in the Lake District National Park and the continuation of fell farming.

He later became head of Afghanistan National Front ( known in the media as United National Front ), the largest political opposition to Hamid Karzai's government.

Under his supervision, the British Museum Library ( now the British Library ) quintupled in size and became a well-organised institution worthy of being called a national library, the largest library in the world after the National Library of Paris.

The largest federal agencies contributing to research are NASA, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy.

With over 55, 000 missionaries worldwide, the church currently has a membership of over 14. 4 million and is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth largest Christian denomination in the United States.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

One of the largest of these paintings is a view of St. Bartholomew's Church at Lawrie Park Avenue, commonly known as The Avenue, Sydenham, in the collection of the London National Gallery.

Also the ongoing installation of a Fiber-Optic network structure in the National District and the City of Santiago ( second largest in the country ) will force other competitors into upgrading theirs to be able to compete in the markets they now lead.

The National University of Ireland ( NUI ) has its seat in Dublin, which is also the location of the associated constituent university of University College Dublin ( UCD ), the largest university in Ireland with over 22, 000 students.

The National Aquatic Centre in Blanchardstown is Ireland's largest indoor water leisure facility.

DC Comics, Inc. ( founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications ) is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media.

* National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature World's largest library for ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature