Directorate of Civil Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej, short KWC) was one of the branches of the Polish Government Delegate’s Office during World War II. Its main tasks were to maintain the morale of the Polish society, encourage the passive resistance, report German attrocities and cruelties to the Polish Government in Exile as well as to organize sabotage. In addition, it was responsible for the law and justice in occupied Poland.
It organized trials of traitors, collaborators and provocators as well as the most cruel members of the Wehrmacht, Gestapo and SS. The verdicts varied from boycott, fines, and lash to capital punishment. The trials were carried out by civil Special Courts and the verdicts were enforced by the Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa. Since 1942 the KWC was also prosecuting crimes such as theft, rape or murder.
The KWC was headed by Stanisław Korboński . In 1943 it was joined with Directorate of Covert Resistance and formed the Directorate of Underground Resistance.
