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"We need to finish them off!". The case of the murder of Germans in the custody suite of the Public Security Office and Milicja Obywatelska (Civic Militia) in Świnoujście in the winter of 1945/1946
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(13) (2015), pages: 435-448
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
In 1947 seven officers of Security Office (UB) and Civic Militia (MO) were tried before the Regional Military Court of Szczecin for the murder of German nationals arrested in Świnoujście in the winter of 1945/1946. The precise number of victims is not known, although the initial findings suggest that as many as forty people may have died under these tragic circumstances. These numbers are based on estimates calculated by the Department for the Officers of the Provincial Public Security Office and the Regional Military Prosecution Service in Szczecin in 1946. Only nine corpses were exhumed from two provisional burial sites within the property of PUBP in Świnoujście. The bodies of the remaining victims have never been recovered. The matter was concluded at the Regional Military Court in Szczecin. This means that the said events were not even ascribed in the broad spectrum of the unlawful activity of the communist repression apparatus tolerated by the authorities. The discrimination that affected those kept in custody in Świnoujście bore the traits of an individual retaliation for the injustices suffered during the period of the German occupation, which is confirmed by biographies and questionnaires prepared by PUBP and MO officers, as well as stenographic records from interrogations.
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