Etos oficerski w warunkach skrajnych na podstawie wybranych postaw oficerów WP osadzonych w KL Auschwitz

Abstract

All types of police, preventive, and retaliatory actions towards Poles became a part of the occupational everyday life. In the common historical awareness of Poles, they are embodied by Warsaw street roundups. However, in the occupational reality, they were a part of everyday life, just like a loaf of dark bread bought for ration coupons after spending long hours in the queue. That is why it is worth reminding that, for example in April 1940, before the famous Aktion A-B in General Government, two large-scale preventive actions took place in the areas incorporated by the Third Reich, namely Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz and Regierungsbezierk Zichenau. They led to imprisonment of a considerable number of the members of the Polish local elites. Repression activities of Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes für den Distrikt from the middle of April 1942 became a part of those events. During a repressive action that took place in the late afternoon of 16th April 1942 in the café Plastyków at 3 Łobzowska Street in Cracow, numerous Cracow artists and other citizens who happened to be in the café were arrested. Moreover, in the night from the 16th to 17th April numerous reserve officers as well as active duty officers and retired officers were arrested. 198 persons from among those arrested and incarcerated at the prison at Montelupich Street were transported to the concentration camp in Auschwitz on the 25th and 26th April 1942. 69 officers were among the people deported in these transports to Auschwitz. On 26th May 1942, 60 of them were executed in front of the Execution Wall in Auschwitz I.