Lokalne struktury Narodowych Sił Zbrojnych wobec ukrywających się Żydów w świetle powojennych materiałów śledczych i procesowych – przypadek powiatów miechowskiego i pińczowskiego
Local Structures of the National Armed Forces Vis-a-Vis Jews in Hiding in Light of Postwar Investigative and Trial Materials – the Case of Miechów and Pińczów Counties

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the activities of members of the local structures of the National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne, NSZ) in Pińczów and Miechów counties aimed at hiding Jews, and the murder of several men, women, children committed by a partisan detachment that for some time operated in this area. In the area in question, 34 people died at the hands of the NSZ. A further 11 were identified by people who admitted to be members of this organization to the German police and were subsequently murdered. The starting point for this analysis were investigation and trial documents concerning former NSZ members tried on the basis of the so-called “August decree”. The author’s purpose was to reconstruct these bloody events that took place from late 1943 to the spring of 1944 and to determine how the crimes against Jews were treated by county investigators from county and provincial security offices and by military courts and courts of law; finally, the author deals with the controversial issue of witness credibility and the testimonies given at that time by the defendants and witnesses.

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