Sport polski w cieniu swastyki. Szkic historiograficzny

The article deals with the subject matter of Polish sport during World War II. This issue falls within the spheres of both the everyday life of Poles under German occupation and the civil underground movement. Taken in broader terms it pertains to the fate of Poles during the war. Despite considerable literature on various aspects of the fate of Poles and Poland in the years of World War II, the Polish sport of that period still awaits a comprehensive source based study. The article shows the place of Polish sport in the years 1939-1945 in Polish historiography. In the literature of the subject historians have taken up such problems as the underground sport movement in General Gouvernement and the territories annexed to the Reich, sport in POW camps, sport life in German concentration camps, the participation of athletes in campaigns on all the war fronts as well as in the armed and civil underground resistance movement of the Polish Underground State, human losses of Polish sport in the years 1939-1945. Although the literature on the subject of Polish sport in the years of World War II is quite abundant, most of the studies are fragmentary and quite often merely contributory. As yet, Polish historiography has not ventured to produce a synthetic study offering a multifaceted discussion of the problem of Polish sport during World War II.