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Białystok Inspectorate (Home Army)

Military unit

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The main tasks of the inspectorate included coordinating the work of districts, collecting and processing information sent by Areas headquarters and then forwarding it to the District Command, supervising sabotage actions, training military cadets etc. The inspectorate organized, among other, on the territory of Białystok-City Area a six-month officer cadet course for high school graduates from 1939-41 and for high school graduates from 1942, who had obtained their high school diplomas as part of secret education. There were also two courses of the non-commissioned officer school for reserve riflemen and for scouts from the Grey Ranks as well as sanitary courses for girls from the municipal branch of the Women Military Service, which Aniela Rybarczyk, a pre-war teacher at a teachers' seminary organized. The inspectorate, together with the District Government Delegate also organized the civil assistance. In 1943 both of these institutions managed the assistance for the Bialystok Ghetto. Based on the district headquarters' guidelines, plans were prepared to seize the most important facilities in the inspectorate's territory. In April 1944, the Białystok Inspectorate's additional duties included identifying the current locations of German radio stations and determining how many Home Army soldiers had radiotelegraphy training (they could transmit and receive at a rate of over 50 characters per minute).

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