EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED BY GERMAN CITIZENS CHARGED WITH PARTICIPATION IN THE POMERANIAN CRIME OF 1939 IN THE SADKI COMMUNE BEFORE GERMAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES
EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED BY GERMAN CITIZENS CHARGED WITH PARTICIPATION IN THE POMERANIAN CRIME OF 1939 IN THE SADKI COMMUNE BEFORE GERMAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES

Summary/Abstract: The Pomeranian crime of 1939 was an organised operation aiming at Germanisation of Pomerania, undertaken by the Third Reich in the first months of World War II. At the first stage, it involved physical elimination of elites of the Polish society living in that area. One of the places where such a crime was committed was the Sadki Commune, where 96 inhabitants were murdered. The paper analyses testimonies of Germans living in that commune during the war who were examined on that case by West German prosecution bodies in the middle of the 1960s. The declared motives for committing the crime were analysed, together with establishing the responsibility for organising and executing it of those persons and of other Germans known to them. The text is supplemented in the footnotes with excerpts from testimonies of Polish witnesses of that crime, testifying to Polish bodies investigating Nazi crimes in Poland.

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