W poczuciu niezasłużonej infamii – wstępne wyniki projektu dotyczącego żołnierzy ludowego Wojska Polskiego

• Authors: Jarosław Pałka , Karolina Żłobecka

Title variants

W poczuciu niezasłużonej infamii – wstępne wyniki projektu dotyczącego żołnierzy ludowego Wojska Polskiego

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article presents preliminary findings of the oral history project on the subject of the soldiers of the People’s Troops of Poland. Testimonies of ca. 40 “People’s Poland” veterans were recorded (giving more than 2000 hours of audio recordings). These soldiers fought on the Eastern Front, participating in, among others, the battles of Lenino, Budziszyn, and Berlin. The article describes the interviewed group and defines the method applied when conducting the interviews. It also gives a short account of how the interviewed were conscripted into the People’s army. The main part of the article is devoted to pointing to the similarities in the veterans’ accounts. These common elements include interspersing a personal narrative with a broad historical context, underlining that in their individual actions during the war and after it they encountered situations from which there was no escape, using the propaganda expressions dating back to the times of the Polish People’s Republic, and the feeling of being omitted (as a whole group of veterans of the People’s Troops) from the sphere of historical memory after 1989. In the last part of the article, plans for a monograph based on the project are presented.

Keywords

PL

historia mówiona; historia wojskowości; Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa; Ludowe Wojsko Polskie; upamiętnianie; historia mówiona; historia wojskowości; Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa; Ludowe Wojsko Polskie; upamiętnianie

EN

oral history; military history; People's Republic of Poland; People's Troops of Poland remembrance; oral history; military history; People's Republic of Poland; People's Troops of Poland remembrance

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 77-90

Dates

published

2015-10-30

Contributors

author

Jarosław Pałka

• Archiwum Historii Mówionej Domu Spotkań z Historią i Ośrodka KARTA w Warszawie, Polska

author

Karolina Żłobecka

• Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Polska

Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.95