Veszprém - Pápa
Tarnów - Nowy Sącz - Oświęcim - Jabłonka - Veszprém - Pápa 2017 29.04-02.05 MAIN PARTNER OFFICIAL PARTNERS Polish Underground Couriers 1939 - 1945 During the Second World War Poland found itself under German and Soviet occupaon. Polish people, however, did not stop fighng. Already in 1939 conspiratorial groups were formed, that in 1942 adopted the name of the Naonal Army. It was the largest of the conspiratorial European organizaons. Besides armed acons against the occupant equally important were reconnaissance acons, consisted of gaining and transferring materials about locaon, moves and intenons of the enemy, to the headquarters. One of the elements proving the efficiency of the intelligence network of the Polish underground state was the daily efforts by hundreds of people-couriers, who for many days with constant exposure of life, wandered throughout whole of Europe, carrying small but important parcels. This was informaon about the number of German troops transferred to parcular secons of the front line, or reports from the armaments factories, and also relaons of the situaon in concentraon camps. Courier’s acvity of the Polish underground state was twofold. On the one hand they dealt with spread of informaon from occupied territories, useful for conducng the war against the enemies of Poland; on the other hand they helped with transferring people from the Polish territory, threatened with arrest or death, to a safe place. This second form of acvity had a parcularly wide range on pre-war Southern borderland of our homeland. In the wide belt of the Beskydy and the Carpathians connued the movement of people crossing the border, either of life threatening or freedom reasons by the occupying regimes, as well as the desire to fight the occupying forces in the ranks of the regular army in western Europe.
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