Underground government

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An underground government is a government set up in a covert fashion, because it would be dangerous or impossible to do so openly. This is usually either in the course of a revolution, or in wartime, when a nation or territory has been occupied, and an existing government has been deposed by an invading army.

Examples of underground governments include:

• The Polish Secret State, Polish National Government
• The Jewish Agency, which was (along with the leadership of the Haganah, with which it shared many people) effectively the government of Israel during the final days of the British Mandate of Palestine
• The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam
• The Lithuanian underground government