Censored image of the Home Army in Polish poetry in 1956–1958

Abstract

The paper focuses on censorship bureau’s approach to the subject of the Home Army in Polish within the period of the liberalization of culture, 1956–1958. The research mainly focusses on the identification of censorship relationship to the image of the Home Army created by authors. Moreover, it attempts to specify – on the basis of examples – the kind of content that was accepted, rejected or amended. The juxtaposition of the censor’s reviews, “preventive inspection reports” and the contents of published works allows for the examination of the depth of the censor’s interventions and their methods of manipulating historical facts concerning the Home Army. Research into the censor-author relationship enables the introduction of an analysis of the “Aesop’s language” strategy. The entire paper is based on historical context and related phenomena, including the amnesty and the so-called „rehabilitation”.