Przygotowania Okręgu Generalnego Łódź do przejścia na organizację pokojową w 1921
Streszczenie
This article deals with the process of preparations of Łódź General District of the Polish
Army for the conversion from the war organisation that obliged in 1921 to the peace time
structures. The author highlights as well the process of demobilisation of the military forces
on the territory of the District.
First the progress of the works aiming at the preparation of the plans of the organisation
of the army on a peace footing as well as the conversion of the infantry divisions from the
system of two brigades to the system of three regiments (a division was then composed of
three infantry regiments instead of four in two brigades like so far) and augmentation of
their numbers to thirty was showed. Then there was described the process of demobilisation
of the military forces that was inevitable for the adoption of the peace time structure of the
army. Due to the lack of the historical sources that issue as far as the Łódź General District
is concerned was presented only in general terms. The demobilisation of the 4th and 10th
Infantry Division that belonged to the District was the only process considered in a more
detailed way. The article is summoned up with the presentation of the general principles of
the process of the implementation of the peace time structure of the Polish Army that took
place in the autumn 1921 and with the description of all its phases.