THE POLISH GOVERNMENT DELEGATION. THE MAIN PART OF THE POLISH UNDERGROUND STATE

The text is an attempt to summarize the organizational achievements as well as various activities of the civil structure of the Polish Underground State from 1939-1945. Conspiracy governmental administration, which was exceptionally effective in the occupation, represented, apart from the underground armed forces of the Home Army, the strength and uniqueness of the Polish underground on the scale of the struggling Europe. The secret governmental administration (Delegation of Government to the Country) focused both on the central and the local level on propaganda, information, intelligence, education, self-help, civil protection, but also on the planning of post-war reforms and structural changes of a social and economic nature. This article discusses the process of forming a national government delegation at central level under the direction of successive plenipotentiaries of the government. The structure of the government's secret agenda has also been described, showing its departments and secreted units. Similarly, the area network, i.e. the regional (provincial) delegations have been presented. In addition, the issue of cooperation between the civilian conspiracy and the most important element of the war-ground state, namely the military conspiracy - the Home Army, was signaled. The text ends with reference to the "Storm" action of summer 1944 and the dissolution of the Polish military and civilian underground in the first half of 1945.

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