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2021 | 16 | 21 | 162-176

Article title

Karl Schikorski - nazistowski „polakożerca” z Tychów

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Title variants

EN
Karl Schikorski - the Nazi “Eater of Poles” from Tychy

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Abstracts

EN
The state of knowledge about the personnel of the German occupation apparatus of power, including the Nazi party, in Upper Silesia during World War II is already very advanced. This has been made possible by the availability of the existing source materials, primarily those stored in the State Archives in Katowice. They allow us not only to identify of the activities of the most important Nazi dignitaries, but also of the representatives of the local occupation elites. Mirosław Węcki’s analysis of Karl Schikorski - a Volksdeutsch and an NSDAP functionary operating during the war in Tychy, a city located in the Pszczyński district - illustrates the possibility of conducting such research based, among other sources, on the personnel files of the Nazi party. This microregional type of approach is important for the adequate understanding of life during the occupation, especially since the local supporters of the Nazi regime, derived from the pre-war German minority, left a tragic mark on the fate of the Polish inhabitants of the region.
PL
W czasie II wojny światowej wielu górnośląskich Niemców, przedwojennych obywateli II Rzeczypospolitej, aktywnie poparło nazistowski reżim okupacyjny. Już po wojnie jeden z polskich mieszkańców górnośląskiego miasta Tychy tak o nich pisał: „Jak my takiego traktowali? Jak wroga. Człowiek się go boł, nie dlatego, że German, ino że nazista”. Na taką opinię niewątpliwie zasłużył tyski volksdeutsch - Karl Schikorski. Tamtejsi Polacy znajdowali dla niego po wojnie tyko jedno określenie - „polakożerca”.

Year

Volume

16

Issue

21

Pages

162-176

Physical description

Dates

published
2021

Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki
2058102

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_31261_WSN_2021_21_10
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