Published: 2023-12-31

From the activity of the Special Court in Piotrków (Sondergericht Petrikau) (1939-1945)

Konrad Graczyk
Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings
Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2023.30.2.19

Abstract

The article presents the state of research on the activity of the Special Court in Piotrków and the source basis. It discusses when the special court was established - originally in Wieluń - and its transfer to Piotrków. Also, the article depicts the organization and changes in its formal location as well as the staffing of the court, thus updating the data presented in the literature by J. Góral and M. Uzdowski. In a similar way, based on a new source basis, the statistics of defendants and those convicted by the Special Court in Piotrków are presented. Based on data from the literature, previously unknown criminal case files from the Federal Archives in Berlin and the GG press, the minimum number of people sentenced to death has been calculated. Some of the most interesting cases of judicial practice are described, including, above all, cases of helping Jews.

Keywords:

special court, occupation, death penalty, General Government, Jews

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Graczyk, K. (2023). From the activity of the Special Court in Piotrków (Sondergericht Petrikau) (1939-1945). Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 30(2), 268–284. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2023.30.2.19

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