Military policeman in the service of Selbstschutz. Otto Oberländer and German crime in Sadki near Nakło on the Noteć in 1939 Cover Image

Żandarm w służbie Selbstschutzu. Otto Oberländer i zbrodnia niemiecka w Sadkach koło Nakła nad Notecią w 1939 r.
Military policeman in the service of Selbstschutz. Otto Oberländer and German crime in Sadki near Nakło on the Noteć in 1939

Author(s): Tomasz Ceran
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: German crimes in Poland in 1939; German gendarmerie; Intelligenzaktion; Sadki; Pomorze Gdańskie; Selbstschutz Westpreussen;

Summary/Abstract: In 1939 ca. 750 German military policemen or gendarmes were sent to occupied Poland. Some of them took part in the extermination of Polish civilians. One of those was Otto Oberländer, a military policeman from the village of Sadki, who contributed to the killing of 86 Poles. There has been no study so far in the Polish historiography on the German apparatus of repression in Poland that describes their operations in the occupied Polish country.

  • Issue Year: 50/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 69-94
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish