The research of Wroclawian academics on anti-Semitism and Holocaust in The Studies on Fascism and Hitlerite Crimes
The research of Wroclawian academics on anti-Semitism and Holocaust in The Studies on Fascism and Hitlerite Crimes

Summary/Abstract: The creation of the scholarly journal Studies on Fascism and Hitlerite Crimes was a result of a need to coordinate research led by scientists from the University of Wroclaw and employees of District Commission for the Examination of Hitlerite Crimes in Wroclaw which concerned the doctrine of National Socialism and its practical implications in the Third Reich. Such cooperation was primarily based on the contract signed on 22.03.1976 by the University of Wroclaw and the above- -mentioned Commission which established a framework for the joint effort to research fascism and Hitlerite crimes. This agreement stipulated the creation of a common Research Team. The first results of the Team’s work dealing with the policies of national socialists towards Poles in Germany (especially in Silesia) were presented in November 1972 during the scientific conference organized in Wroclaw by the Central Commission for the Examination of Hitlerite Crimes. Several papers were presented. Professor Karol Jonca talked about the implementation of law and national policy of the Third Reich regarding Polish minority before World War Two; professor Franciszek Polomski explained the discriminatory function of “the racial law” (Rassenrecht) in the Third Reich; professor Alfred Konieczny described the process of liquidation of Polish ownership in Germany during World War Two; professor Wojciech Wrzesiński talked about the Nazi policy towards Polish institutions (recognized by public law) in the Third Reich. In the course of the discussion on these subjects, the problem of widespread dispersal of articles concerning the ideology and practice of fascism was raised.

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