Organizacja "Wolnosc" - konspiracija i kombatanctwo
The 'Liberty' organization - the underground and veteranship

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the Polish undeground military activities which occurred in the regiments of the Austro-Hungarian Army. The regiments were formed and augmented in the Austrian partitioned lands known as Galicia, the illo tempore province of the Habsburg empire. The beginnings of the undeground movement date backe to the Autumn of 1916 when the Russian front, in the Pantyr Pass there was the first underground meeting of some of the officers of the 20th Austrian Infantry Regiment, called by Col. Stanislaw Bergman. The underground activities developed since the Spring of 1917 on the Italian front where the aforementioned regiment was transported. Very soon these activities started to affect other divisions of the imperial and royal army. Captain Jerzy Debrodzicki who had this rank at that time, became the leader. A significant rise in the activities of the movement occured in the Autumn of 1917 when after the so-called oath crisis in the Polish Legions many legionaries were incorporated into the imperial royal army by way of punishment and the news of Jozef Pilsudski's detainment reached the patriotically-minded Polish officers who were forced to serve in the Austrian army.

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