Cemetery of Victims of Hitler‘s Terror in Olsztyn
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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Polska
Submission date: 2024-03-18
Final revision date: 2024-07-30
Acceptance date: 2024-07-31
Online publication date: 2024-09-16
Publication date: 2024-09-16
KMW 2024;325(2):227-240
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Separated quarters at ul. Jan Baczewski was called the Cemetery of the Victims of Hitler's Terror, because until 1989 the communist authorities classified the discovered bodies of civilians as victims of Nazi terror. Thus, they did not admit that many of them died at the hands of Soviet soldiers. The consequence of such historical policy was the falsification of information about the origins of the people buried there and the perpetrators of their death. Thus, the victims of Soviet criminals were deleted. Citizens of various countries, mainly Poland and Germany, and individual people from Italy, France and the USSR were buried in the war headquarters. These are victims who died at the hands of German and Soviet criminals and as a result of conditions resulting from war operations.