Departments
The Delegation's activities encompassed all areas of organized society. It comprised 12 branches, roughly corresponding to the ministries of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London.
- Internal Affairs
- Security of the Delegation
- Provisional Administration - shadow administration to take over the administrational duties after liberation or during an all-national uprising
- Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa -underground police
- Council to Aid the Jews
- preparing reports on the situation in occupied Poland
- Information and Press
- providing the society with news from abroad
- propaganda
- printing Rzeczpospolita, the official organ of the Office
- Labour and Social Affairs
- cooperation with Polish Red Cross and Central Welfare Council
- Education and Culture
- Organisation of the Underground schools and universities
- Industry and Trade
- Agriculture
- Justice
- Liquidation of the Effects of the War
- Public Works and Reconstruction
- Treasury
- Post Offices and Telegraphs
- Communications
Near the end of the war, Departments of Foreign Affairs and of War Matters were created, but they have not played any significant role.
Other notable units and bureaus included:
- Bureau of the Newly Acquired Lands (Polish Biuro Ziem Nowych)
- Established 1942. The Bureau's main task was to document the Polish claims on German lands east of the Oder river and the area of Prussia as well as planning of their post-war development. Despite the Allies agreement to grant Poland with the lands east of the Oder-Neisse Line, the plans of the bureau were never fulfilled since most of its workers were arrested by the NKVD and sent to GULags across Russia (see, however, Recovered Territories).
- Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej (Directorate of Civil Resistance) (since 1941)
With regard to territorial structure, there were:
- in General Government:
- Regional Delegation for Kielce
- Regional Delegation for Kraków
- Regional Delegation for Lublin
- Regional Delegation for Warsaw-City
- Regional Delegation for Warsaw-voivodeship
- in the Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany:
- Regional Delegation for Ciechanów
- Regional Delegation for Łódź
- Regional Delegation for Pomorze (Pomerania) in Toruń
- Regional Delegation for Poznań
- Regional Delegation for Śląsk (Silesia) in Katowice
- in the Polish territories annexed by the Soviet Union:
- Regional Delegation for Białystok
- Regional Delegation for Lwów (Lviv)
- Regional Delegation for Nowogródek (Navahrudak)
- Regional Delegation for Polesie
- Regional Delegation for Wilno (Vilnius)
- Regional Delegation for Wołyń (Volhynia)
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