
After the end of World War II, the Polish justice system set about prosecuting and trying those responsible for crimes committed by the German occupation apparatus in Poland. Among the perpetrators were also citizens of the Second Polish Republic. The article discusses the case of the Upper Silesian Volksdeutscher Franz Paliczka – a pre-war German minority activist and occupation official in Pszczyna. The authors analyse his activities in the interwar period, in 1939–1945 and his post-war trial before the Special Criminal Court in Katowice.
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