Polish government-in-exile
폴란드 망명정부
The legitimate government of the Republic of Poland, formed after the German and Soviet invasion of September 1939 and based successively in Paris, Angers, and from 1940 in London. During the war it commanded the Polish Underground State (including the Home Army) and Polish Armed Forces in the West, and submitted to the Allies the first official report on the Nazi extermination of the Jews. The Western Allies withdrew recognition in July 1945 in favor of the Soviet-backed Provisional Government of National Unity in Warsaw, but the government-in-exile continued as a symbolic authority until it transferred the presidential insignia to the Third Polish Republic in Warsaw in December 1990.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) foundational article: formation (Sept 1939), Paris→Angers→London relocation, wartime command of Home Army and Armed Forces in the West, Katyn break with USSR, loss of Allied recognition (5 July 1945), transfer of regalia to Lech Wałęsa (22 Dec 1990)
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian-language article confirming native name Rząd RP na uchodźstwie, constitutional transfer of power (Mościcki→Raczkiewicz), Sikorski government formation, and the London phase (June 1940–1990)
- history.state.gov FRUS diplomatic papers: Stalin's 1 Jan 1945 message to Roosevelt defending recognition of the Lublin Committee over the 'émigré Government in London', the core Yalta dispute that led to the government-in-exile's exclusion from postwar Polish power