Provocation in the fight against “bands.” Selected examples of German provocative actions in the Krakow district of the general government Cover Image

Prowokacja w walce z „bandami”. Wybrane przykłady niemieckich akcji prowokacyjnych z terenu dystryktu krakowskiego GG
Provocation in the fight against “bands.” Selected examples of German provocative actions in the Krakow district of the general government

Author(s): Dawid Golik
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Criminology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: agent-provocateur units; partisans; German police; occupation of Poland 1939–1945; General Government; German crimes; Polish Home Army; communists;

Summary/Abstract: In 1943 the Germans started using agent-provocateur units composed of members of different police formations to combat the independent and communist underground movements in the territories of occupied Poland. Their members, pretending to be Polish or Soviet partisans, contacted local people and subsequently arrested or liquidated the most dangerous activists of the underground. There were several agent-provocateur units operating in the Kraków district of the General Government, and their most intense activity was reported in the Podhale region and in the vicinity of Miechów.

  • Issue Year: 144/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 691-711
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish