Polish Underground State Polskie Pa?stwo Podziemne
1939?1945 [1] [2]
Flag Emblem
Motto:  " Honor i Ojczyzna " ( " Honor and Homeland " )
Anthem:  " Mazurek D?browskiego " (English: "Poland Is Not Yet Lost" )
Status	Government in exile
Common languages	Polish
Government	Republic
President of the Polish government-in-exile
? 1939?1945	Władysław Raczkiewicz
Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile
? 1939?1940 (first)	Władysław Sikorski
? 1944-1945 (last)	Tomasz Arciszewski
Legislature	Political Consultative Committee (1940?1943) Home Political Representation (1943?1944) Council of National Unity (1944?1945)
Historical era	World War II
?  Constitution adopted	23 April 1935
?  Invasion of Poland	1 September 1939
?  Provisional Government of National Unity established	28 June 1945 [1] [2]
Preceded by Succeeded by Second Polish Republic Provisional Government of National Unity

The Polish Underground State ( Polish : Polskie Pa?stwo Podziemne , also known as the Polish Secret State ) ^[a] was a single political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland. They were loyal to the Polish government-in-exile in London.

Further reading [ change | change source ]

• Jan Karski (2001). Story of a Secret State . Simon Publications. ISBN   978-1-931541-39-8 .
• Halik Kochanski (2012). The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War . Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0-674-06816-2 .
• Stefan Korbo?ski; Francis Bauer Czarnomski; Zofia Korbonski (2004). Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939?1945 . Hippocrene Books. ISBN   978-0-7818-1035-7 .
• Richard C. Lukas (2012). The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1945 . Hippocrene Books. ISBN   978-0-7818-1302-0 .
• Richard C. Lukas (2004). Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation . University Press of Kansas. ISBN   978-0-7818-0242-0 .
• Jan Nowak (1982). Courier from Warsaw . Wayne State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8143-1725-9 .
• Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski (2011). The Secret Army: The Memoirs of General Bor-Komorowski . Pen & Sword Books Limited. ISBN   978-1-84832-595-1 .

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Other websites [ change | change source ]

• Warsaw Uprising and The Polish Underground State Archived 2021-03-15 at the Wayback Machine