Bezpečnostní situace v Generálním gouvernementu. Pokus o kvantitativní analýzu na základě německých policejních statistik
The situation in the General Government in the light of German police statistics – an attempt at quantitative analysis

Summary/Abstract: The study presents an analysis of German police reports from the General Government which are unknown to historians and are held at the National Archives in Prague. The statistical data contained in the documents present a relatively complex picture of public order in this part of occupied Polish territory seen from the perspective of the German security service. The most important issues include the number of armed incidents, which between January 1942 and April 1944 increased 45 times, reaching 263 “assaults” a day. From the beginning of 1940 to the spring of 1944 there were over 100,000 armed incidents, with as many as 42% of them in the Lublin district, while the quietest districts were Cracow (6%) and Galicia (9%). It can be estimated that only around 10% of those incidents were political in nature; the rest were robberies. The analysed documents also include the level of losses sustained by the occupiers. Specifically, in the General Government between early 1940 and the end of November 1944 at least 1,384 Germans and 990 functionaries of the Polish and Ukrainian auxiliary police service were killed. (The data, however, do not include the losses suffered by the Germans while suppressing the Warsaw Uprising or Wehrmacht losses in police operations from March 1943 on.) A substantial majority of the Germans were killed after 1942, while in the first three years of the occupation they sustained relatively minor losses in the General Government. On the basis of the analysed reports it is also possible to estimate the number of victims of German retaliatory operations. From July 1942 to the end of November 1944 they had at least 43,545 victims, excluding people killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising and Jews murdered during anti-partisan operations. Around 40% of them were civilians. In addition, almost 60,000 people were arrested and over 40,000 deported to do forced labour.

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