Obraz sądownictwa i adwokatury w generalnym gubernatorstwie w okresie II wojny światowej w twórczości Karola Pędowskiego
The image of the judiciary and attorneys in the General Government during World War II in works of Karol Pędowski

Summary/Abstract: Karol Pędowski was an attorney who, apart from his professional, social, and political activities, also published several historical works. During the Second World War, he passed the official attorney exam and worked as an attorney, especially in the charity organization that helped prisoners. His publications contain many themes about the Warsaw judiciary and attorneys during the German occupation. These themes are shown directly, as a main topic, and indirectly in the Karol Pedowski works. The purpose of the article will be to present the image of the judiciary and attorneys in the General Government during the Second World War, which Karol Pędowski made in his publications. To achieve this purpose articles, books, and stories that contained descriptions and memories of real and fictionalized events in the history of the judiciary and attorneys during World War II were analyzed. In the article assumption was made that even in fictionalized events the author shown real and truth background, important for the topic of the article. The article, devoted to the issues of law and judiciary presented in the literature, pretends to be a study in the field of "law and literature". The issues of the judiciary and advocacy in the General Government, primarily about the Polish (non-German) judiciary, are still an undeveloped and therefore unknown research area. The assessment of the image presented by Karol Pędowski in his work shows that it has a credible character, thanks to which it complements known historical facts.

• Details
• Contents