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The earliest roots of Polish Youth reach back to 1922, the organisation was delegalised in 1934 and the present incarnation was created on December 2, 1989. Polish Youth was affiliated with the [[League of Polish Families]], but was never officially its youth wing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80708,4615980.html |title=Młodzież Wszechpolska: LPR nie może nas rozwiązać |website=Gazeta.pl Wiadomości |date=26 October 2007 |access-date=26 September 2017 |language=pl}}</ref>
In recent years, All-Polish Youth have been widely condemned as [[homophobic]] by various organisations including [[Amnesty International]],<ref name="amnestyusa.org">[http://www.refworld.org/docid/447ff7b511.html Amnesty International Report 2006 - Poland (archived by UNHRC, United Nations Refugee Agency)]</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]],<ref name="HRW">[https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/02/14/poland-official-homophobia-threatens-human-rights Human Rights Watch (Scott Long)]</ref> and the [[United Nations]].<ref name="UN">[http://www.upr-info.org/IMG/pdf/AI_CZE_add1.pdf UN Human Rights Council - Universal Periodic Review, Annual Report 2005 (page 6)]</ref>
== Pre-war All-Polish Youth ==
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The modern incarnation of the All-Polish Youth was founded in [[Poznań]] in 1989, on the initiative of [[Roman Giertych]], the former leader of the [[League of Polish Families]] (LPR). Continuing the tradition of its precursors, the organisation maintains its aim of raising youth with their ideology, and operates across all of Poland, working with high-school and university students.
In 2006, the Polish Public Prosecutor's office launched an investigation after a video recording from a private party was leaked to the Polish press. It was considered that All-Polish Youth members including Leokadia Wiącek, a personal assistant of [[Maciej Giertych]] (member of the European Parliament), were seen fraternizing with [[Neo-Nazism|Neo-Nazi]] skinheads, listening to Neo-Nazi bands, and saluting the [[swastika]].<ref>[http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/13375/ Warsaw Voice - LPR Ditches All-Polish Youth<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.ejpress.org/article/12523 EJP | News | Eastern Europe | ‘All-Polish Youth’ Nazi movie generates controversy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>http://www.dziennik.pl/polityka/article13074/Nazistowskie_wybryki_Mlodziezy_Wszechpolskiej.html</ref> Following the incident, Leokadia Wiącek was expelled from All-Polish Youth,<ref>http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,wid,8625569,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=17530</ref> and the League of Polish Families cut ties with the group.<ref>[http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/13375/ Warsaw Voice - LPR Ditches All-Polish Youth (20 Dec 2006)]</ref> As it was later determined, during the private party Leokodia Wącek was not a member of the organisation and the main Polish television channel [[Telewizja Polska]] apologized to All-Polish Youth for accusing them of neo-nazi connotations.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0-41Vvsl4 TVP Polish Television Evening News (02 Aug 2007)]</ref>
All-Polish Youth have declared that it is only by making Poland a Catholic state that its future will be secured, and chairman Konrad Bonisławski has stated "We do not want to become like Holland with its free drugs and gay marriage. Since joining the European Union we have seen attempts to destroy our Catholic values."<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/1522202/Ghetto-survivor-warns-of-Polish-fascism.html Daily Telegraph - Ghetto survivor warns of Polish 'fascism' (24 June 2006)]</ref>
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