Judge Władysław Bednarz’s Investigation into the Kulmhof German Death Camp Cover Image

Śledztwo sędziego Władysława Bednarza w sprawie niemieckiego obozu zagłady Kulmhof
Judge Władysław Bednarz’s Investigation into the Kulmhof German Death Camp

Author(s): Piotr Litka, Zdzisław Lorek, Grzegorz Pawlikowski
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Military history, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Holocaust; World War Two; criminals; evidence search; Władysław Bednarz; Chełmno nad Nerem; Kulmhof;

Summary/Abstract: ‘Bednarz’s investigation’ was the first investigation into the functioning of the death camp at Chełmno nad Nerem. The evidence collected on that occasion was then used in, for instance, the Nuremberg Trials and the post-war trials of Nazi criminals in Poland and the FRG.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 334-353
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish