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Repressions towards teachers in the light of Ministry of Education documents from 1945–1947
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(16) (2018), pages: 383-398
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
The power installed in Poland after the Second World War was determined to use all means of repression to break the resistance of social group unwilling to work. The pre-war intelligentsia including teachers was found to be at a particularly vulnerable position. The aim of the presented article is to show the situation of the teaching staff based on the documents of the Ministry of Education from 1945–1947, containing numerous complaints and requests for interventions mainly in cases of persons detained by the Security Offices. Methods of proceedings used against teacher did not differ from those used against the rest of polish society. The base for the numerous arrests, detentions and searches belonged during the war to the Home Army or political organizations before the war, expressing a negative opinion on Poland’s relations with the USSR, hostile attitude towards the new political system. It is also worth to note the scale of the unlawful actions presented in the documents like: not informing about the reasons behind the arrest, groundless, often many months of detention without specific charges, mental and physical abuse, appropriation of property.
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