Underground periodicals for the youth published by nationalist parties and organizations during World War II

This article is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of the underground press for the young sympathizers of the main nationalist political parties and organizations under the German and Soviet occupation in 1939–1945. So far this research area has been largely ignored; the only exception was Sztuka i Naród (Art and Nation), a periodical published by the resistance group Konfederacja Narodu (Confederation of the Nation). This article includes the main bibliographical data and a list of selected publications with a fairly detailed survey of their contents. Among the titles listed are Wielka Polska (Great Poland), Młoda Polska (Young Poland), Wszechpolak (The All-Polish Youth) and Patrol (The Patrol). The article outlines their programmatic and political profiles with the help of appropriate quotations. It also tries to assess the importance of those national-Catholic periodicals in the shaping of the Polish view of the German and the Soviet occupation as well as the project of a Great Poland.