Prześladowcy Żydów przed Wojskowym Sądem Specjalnym Komendy Głównej AK w 1944 r.
Persecutors of Jews before the Military Special Court of the Home Army Headquarters in 1944.
Author(s): Dariusz LibionkaSubject(s): Jewish studies, Military history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Special Court Martial; Home Army High Command; blackmailers (szmalcowniks); Warsaw;
Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the operation of the underground courts martial using the example of the files of the court martial which operated at the Main Command of the Home Army (Komenda Główna Armii Krajowej). The documents are kept in the Central Archive of Modern Records. The court martial tried crimes committed by soldiers of the Union of Armed Combat-Home Army (Związek Walki Zbrojnej-Armia Krajowa, ZWZ-AK) and also those aimed against the underground. This text gives examples of cases against people who exposed Jews and did not belong to the underground structures. The files of the cases discussed contain: the indictment, the minutes of the trial plus the verdict, and the liquidation order. Attached to every indictment is abundant evidence including reports prepared by various underground cells and the results of the surveillance they carried out. The article presents previously unknown court cases regarding crimes against the Jews, and it also allows taking a closer look at the procedures and the operations of the underground judiciary.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 371-408
- Page Count: 38
- Language: Polish