Na „spotkanie” ludziom z AK. Służba Bezpieczeńtwa wobec środowisk akowskich po 1956 roku na Wybrzeżu Gdańskim
“Reaching out” to Home Army (AK) members. The Security Service’s Approach to AK Milieus by the Gdańsk Coast after 1956

Summary/Abstract: One of the social groups which was intensely monitored and identified the Security Services in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) was that of the Home Army combatants. The article asks about the scale and results of the Secret Services activities regarding people whose postures were by the Home Army ethos. It is intended as a stimulous for a wider discussion on the “the long lasting endurance” of the Home Army in the Polish People’s Republic. The Home Army members belonged to what the Security Services called “traditional” milieus. There were hundreds of thousands of them in the country, they were counted by the thousand in Pomerania. It was neither a homogenous nor organised group. The combatants would gather round their commanders and colleagues in small groups from a dozen to a few dozen. It seems that in the period of their greatest activity (after 1956) as well as at the beginning of the 1970s no more than 700 people belonged to the Pomerania Home Army milieu. “Milieu” in this context is thus a Security Service term. Did the Security Services have reasons to suspect Home Army members of being disloyal or hostile?

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