The Anatomy of the Incriminating Letter Regarding Father Tadeusz Puder Sent by Father Stanisław Trzeciak
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 13 (2017), pages: 641-675
Publication date: 2017-12-03
Abstract
he materials presented in the article include documentation of the German Special Court (Sondergericht) in Warsaw proceedings against Tadeusz Puder, a Catholic priest of Jewish origin arrested by the Gestapo in the spring of 1941. His imprisonment was a consequence of a denunciation made by Fr. Stanisław Trzeciak, one of the leading Polish anti-Semites. Sentenced to several months in prison, Puder managed to escape from the prison hospital in autumn 1942 and survive in hiding. He died a few days after the liberation of Warsaw in a car accident. Despite the cooperation with the German security police, Trzeciak was among the victims of mass executions during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. The introduction of the article presents a broader context of Trzeciak’s anti-Semitic activity and the reasons for his personal hatred for Puder, as well as unknown details of collaborative attempts in the first months of German occupation.
Keywords
Stanisław Trzeciak, Tadeusz Puder, German special courts (Sondergerichte), collaboration, anti-Semitic publishing house „Atak” (Attack)
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