Die Distriktskammern, Deutsche Handelskammer für Polen, Handwerksinnungen, Handwerkskammern, Hauptgruppen, Industrie- und Handelskammern, kaufmännische Vereine, Landwirtschaftskammern und Zwangsverbände im Generalgouvernement – Forschungsmethodik
The District Chambers, Deutsche Handelskammer für Polen, Craft Guilds, Chambers of Crafts, Main Groups, Chambers of Industry and Trade, Merchant Guilds, Chambers of Agriculture and Obligatory Unions in the General Government – Research Methodology

Summary/Abstract: The acquiring of the knowledge about the history of the Chambers of Crafts, Chambers of Agriculture and Chambers of Industry and Trade – the institutions currently operating within the democratic system as self-governing legal persons – in the case of the totalitarian regime should be subject to a thorough archival research. This need results not only from the scarcity of the archival materials, but also complex institutional and personal connections across the administrative system, both in time of peace and war. Especially interesting are the relations between the foreign occupation authorities and the organizations of the subjugated Polish nation. This phenomenon concerns various periods and territories, including the General Government 1939–1945. At that time, on the Polish territories, self-governing institutions lost their autonomy. They where appropriated and transformed by the ruling entities. They were, despite their nature, the element of the totalitarian system and total war.

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