 The Bechowiec (aka Bechowiec-1) was a Polish World War II submachine gun developed and produced by the underground Bataliony Chłopskie (BCh, "Peasants' Battalions") resistance organisation.It was designed in 1943 by Henryk Strąpoć and was produced in underground facilities in the area of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.Its name was coined after the Bataliony Chłopskie organization members who were informally called "bechowiec" (plural