Konfederacja Narodu was one of the Polish resistance

Polish resistance movement in World War II

The Polish resistance movement in World War II, with the Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe, covering both German and Soviet zones of occupation. The Polish defence against the Nazi occupation was an important part of the European...

 organizations in occupied Poland during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. KN was created in 1940 by far-right National Radical Camp (ONR) political party (or to be specific, its Falanga faction

National Radical Camp Falanga

National Radical Camp Falanga was a Polish political group. It was one of two groups to emerge following the banning of the National Radical Camp in 1934.-Formation and ideology:...

) from several smaller underground organizations, including the Secret Polish Army (TAP). In the political realm it was opposed to more center and sanacja

Sanacja

Sanation was a Polish political movement that came to power after Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup d'État. Sanation took its name from his watchword—the moral "sanation" of the Polish body politic...

-related mainstream resistance organizations (SZP and ZWZ). It would never attract major support and would remain marginal, eventually partially merging with ZWZ around 1941 and finally joining Armia Krajowa

Armia Krajowa

The Armia Krajowa , or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...

around fall 1943.