Theft of Airdropped Money from the “Kopyto” Post. Criminal Case of the Special Military Court of the Home Army High Command against Officer Cadet Tadeusz Szatkowski aka Grom Cover Image

Kradzież pieniędzy zrzutowych z placówki „Kopyto”. Sprawa karna pchor. Tadeusza Szatkowskiego „Groma” przed Wojskowym Sądem Specjalnym Komendy Głównej Armii Krajowej
Theft of Airdropped Money from the “Kopyto” Post. Criminal Case of the Special Military Court of the Home Army High Command against Officer Cadet Tadeusz Szatkowski aka Grom

Author(s): Bartłomiej P. Szyprowski
Subject(s): History, Military history, Oral history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: “Silent Unseen”; Home Army; underground judiciary; Special Military Court; Union of Armed Struggle

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with a criminal case examined by the Special Military Court at the High Command of the Home Army against the Home Army Officer Cadet Tadeusz Szatkowski aka Grom, serving at the post to receive airdrops near Końskie, charged with appropriation of money to the detriment of the Polish armed forces. The author examines the source material on which the criminal case and sentence were based together with questions related to its non-execution. He attempts to make a legal-criminal analysis of the case and the sentence in relation to both formal and legal conditions, and the validity of the sentence.

  • Issue Year: 50/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 21-47
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish