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Zbrodnia na terenie Lasu Szpęgawskiego w ankietach Okręgowej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Gdańsku
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 11 (2018), pages: 87–104
Publication date: 2023-04-05
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Abstract
The author discusses the results of research on the crime committed by the Germans in the Szpęgawski Forest near Starogard Gdanski in the years 1939–1940. He describes the beginning of the occupation of the Starogard and Tczew powiats (counties) by the Germans and the grounds for the extermination policy against the indigenous population (“Intelligenzaktion”) and people with mental disorders (“Action T-4”). He analyses the investigations of the District Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Gdansk, which contain data on the aforementioned crime and are kept in the Branch Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdansk. Each document is subjected to an examination to reveal the gender structure of a given group, place of origin and date of murder regarding its members. Also included are collections of documents containing residual information on the robbery and destruction of church property or cultural artefacts and pointing to the members of the Psychiatric Hospital crew in Kocborów as suspected of being involved in killing some patients. The data aggregation undertaken in the article has been carried out in the same way for each of the sources.
