Epilog „Historii złudzeń”. Obraz Polski w latach 1944–1968 we wspomnieniach Klemensa Nussbauma
An epilogue to a "A history of illusions”. Picture of Poland in 1944–1968 in memoirs of Klemens Nussbaum

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a workout of the account of Klemens Nussbaum, colonel of Polish People’s Army (ludowe Wojsko Polskie), who fled from Poland to Israel in 1969. Among the leading threads covered during an interview carried out in Tel Aviv in the 1970s are, among other issues, the relations among officers in Polish People’s Army, the presence of anti-Semitism, relations within the communist party, as well as more personal matters – such as a subjective account on being expelled from the army in 1953. In his narration, several threads could be a complement to Nussbaum’s doctoral thesis A "History of Illusions" ("Historia złudzeń"), published in Polish in 2016. The aforementioned thesis is also an interesting historical source for researchers of the modern history of Jewish population in Poland – the more so because both Klemens and his wife Stanisława, an activis tof Women’s League (Liga Kobiet), had close ties with party elites.

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