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The results of the joint, Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 were shattering. Yet, despite immeasurable suffering, loss of life, war damage and terror, to which Poles were subjected at the hands of the two oppressors, the Nation as a whole did not bend. Lost was a battle, but very few doubted that the war would be won. And even before the last units of the regular Polish Army ceased their desperate defensive operations against the two aggressors, the buds of the Polish resistance movement had emerged. Initially small and dispersed, based on members of the same family, circle of friends, local youth, social and cultural organizations, they grew rapidly and soon came to involve a considerable part of the Polish population, in most cases under the leadership of large, prewar Polish political and social organizations. Within only few years and despite murderous terror, the Polish underground resistance movement grew up to almost half a million members. The Nation went Underground.
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