Hitlerowskie więzienia i obozy przejściowe wświetle literatury wspomnieniowej duchowieństwa polskiego z lat 1939-1945
Nazi Prisons and Transit Camps in the Light of Memoirs of the Polish Clergy in the Years 1939-1945

Summary/Abstract: 70 years after the end of the World War II, we can say that despite vast research of the matter at hand, there are still many of the aspects of the Nazi occupation of Europe that have evaded investigation so far. One such issue is the Nazi system of terror and extermination affecting Polish clergy, which relied − among other things − on the system of prisons and the so-called transit camps (usually located in specially dedicated monasteries). The testimonies of the clergymen who suffered the ordeal caused by the Nazi persecutions are an important historiographical resource, supplementing the incomplete historical material. Relying on such memoirs, the article approaches a vast panorama of issues related to the internment procedure that the clergy underwent: arrest, strip search, stay, daily agenda, food, living conditions, punishment, persecutions, work and religious life.

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