Activities of the security services against the German population
and the so-called Polish autochthones in Warmia and Mazury in the years 1945–1956
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Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Online publication date: 2018-01-03
Publication date: 2018-01-04
KMW 2017;298(4):637-660
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The article describes the activities of the Communist political police against former German citizens who
remained in their places of residence in the part of East Prussia incorporated into Poland. Polish communists until
the end of the 1940s were conducting a policy that would eliminate German nationality from the inhabitants of
Poland. From the end of the 1940s there was a concerted attempt to eliminate anyone with German nationality and
those questioning the new Polish–German border that was created in 1945 among the remnants of the German
citizenry. The Communist political police were also interested in people (and their views) who showed a critical
attitude toward the Communist regime introduced into Poland