The Territorial Organization of the Working Party in the are a of Lubusz in the Period of 1945-1950

Abstract

The Working Party established in October 1937 as a collage of PSChD and NPR gained political importance during the Second World War thanks to the support and rank of general WŁ. Sikorski. In 1942 the Party broke up, so that in 1945 one observes two factions of WP: one is led by Karol Popiel (suspended in July 1946) and the other one by Zygmunt Felczak and Feliks Wid-Wirski. The latter faction was later called Working Party "Zryw", and in 1950 was assimilated to Democratic Party. The breaking up took also place in the Western Territories. One can trace these events following the example of the Lubusz Territory which is an administrative part of the Poznań voivodship. The Lubusz Territory embraces 13 administrative districts. Before 1948 there were established 12 Boards of Administrative Districts of DP, 8 of them were established until 1946, and further 4 afterwards. The Boards of Administrative Districts were subordinate to the Voivodship Board in Poznań. What impeded the development of the propaganda of WP and gained new members was PPR, whose activists dismantled political rallies and gatherings of WP, nothing short of libels and denunciations. As a result of this intelligence forces arrested many leading activists of WP in the region. In Międzyrzecz, Gubin, Zielona Góra and Świebodzin they arrested the chairmen of the administrative districts of WP. The difficult economical situation as well as fear towards Germans (which was kindled on purpose) on the territory under discussion were used in the fight with WP. The latter was in 1950 assimilated also on the Lubusz Territory to DP.