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The article depicts a profile of the last pre-war german Consul General in Katowice Wilhelm Nöldeke (1889–1971). It presents not only his term of offices in Katowice, but also his previous years as well as post-war career in foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany. Description of this german diplomats lot is to help in understanding the fates of many similar persons serving in german foreign service, who were shaped in the era of the Kaisers’ Germany, gained professional experiences in the Weimar Republic, experienced the reality of the nazi Germany and finally, ended their personal career in realities of democratic german state, ingrained in politically-military structures of the West.
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The article shows with what remarkable precision German diplomatic outposts, as well as consular agencies, scattered throughout Poland from Gdynia to Cieszyn to Lvov, gathered information about the Polish military potential. They used official materials, such as newspaper articles, Polish Armed Forces bulletins, as well information obtained from German citizens living in Poland and the ethnic German minority. The German military attaché who was also a member of the diplomatic staff in the German Embassy in Warsaw was in charge of the operation. The article reveals that in spring and summer of 1939, intelligence services stepped up their work. German diplomatic agencies in Poland were very helpful. Relations between Warsaw and Berlin were deteriorating and the initial distrust was replaced by open hostility. The article contains proof that agencies reporting to the German Foreign Ministry took part in drafting lists of Polish patriots to be deported or executed, as well Polish citizens of German nationality who were Nazi opponents. The Nazis later used these lists to track down and execute them. The article also explains what happened to the German diplomatic agencies in Poland in September 1939. It describes their evacuation by the Polish government to Lithuania and Romania, which was accompanied by some dramatic events, such as the possible assassination by the Polish military of the German consul in Krakow August Schillinger. The article also outlines the role played in Nazi-occupied Poland by German diplomatic agencies until the were closed down. The German Embassy in Warsaw was closed down in May 1940. German diplomatic and consular agencies on Polish territories provided essential information which enhanced the decision-making process within Nazi security agencies.
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This text is devoted to the fate of Henryk Wyszomirski (1921–2014), who came from Krasnosielec, a volunteer in the September 1939 campaign, then a soldier of the Home Army and finally, after the entry of the Red Army in January 1945, the functionary of the Department of Security in 1945–1947. He actively fought against his former colleagues from the anti-German underground, who in the new political reality opposed the Soviet domination over Poland and took up arms against the communists. By coincidence, Wyszomirski and the two victims of his spying activities lived in Sopot from the end of the 1950s. The article presents the scale of crimes committed by the security apparatus after 1945 in the Maków District, as well as attempts to cover them up. Additionally, it indicates where the bodies of local UB victims may be found. Wyszomirski was never held fully accountable for the crimes committed during his service in the communist security apparatus, except for his sentencing to 5 years’ imprisonment in 1947, for raping a detainee and appropriating cash. He died in Sopot in 2014 and was interred in the municipal cemetery there, as does the body of one of his victims. Henryk Wyszomirski was presented in the film Historia Roja, directed by Jerzy Zalewski, which deals with Mieczysław Dziemieszkiewicz’s ‘Roj’ (1925–1951) fight against the communists in northern Mazovia.
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Niniejszy tekst poświęcony jest losom pochodzącego z Krasnosielca Henryka Wyszomirskiego (1921–2014), ochotnika w wojnie obronnej we wrześniu 1939 r., następnie żołnierza Armii Krajowej i w końcu – po wkroczeniu Armii Czerwonej w styczniu 1945 r. – funkcjonariusza Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa w latach 1945–1947. Zwalczał on czynnie swych byłych kolegów, którzy w nowej rzeczywistości politycznej sprzeciwiali się dominacji sowieckiej nad Polską i podjęli walkę z komunistami. Przypadek sprawił, że zarówno Wyszomirski, jak dwie ofiary jego ubeckiej działalności mieszkali od końca lat pięćdziesiątych w Sopocie. W artykule zaprezentowano skalę zbrodni popełnionych przez aparat bezpieczeństwa po 1945 r. na terenie powiatu makowskiego, jak też próby ich tuszowania. Dodatkowo wskazano, gdzie znajdować się mogą ciała ofiar lokalnego UB. Wyszomirski nigdy nie poniósł pełnej odpowiedzialności za czyny popełnione podczas służby w komunistycznej bezpiece, wyjąwszy skazanie w 1947 r. na karę pięciu lat pozbawienia wolności za gwałt na zatrzymanej i przywłaszczenie gotówki. Zmarł w Sopocie w 2014 r. i spoczywa na jednym z sopockich cmentarzy, podobnie jak jedna z jego ofiar. Postać Wyszomirskiego została zaprezentowana w filmie Jerzego Zalewskiego Historia Roja, traktującym o walce, którą z komunistami na północnym Mazowszu prowadził Mieczysław Dziemieszkiewicz ps. „Rój” (1925–1951).
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