Arrest list of Polish people prepared by Nazi Germany
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
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Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
. Page with names under the letter "G" with abbreviations. EK
stands for
Einsatzkommando
and EG represents an escaped prisoner.
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Special Prosecution Book-Poland
(
German
:
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
,
Polish
:
Specjalna ksi?ga Polakow ?ciganych listem go?czym
) was a list prepared by the Germans immediately before the
invasion of Poland
containing more than 61,000 members of Polish elites:
activists
,
intelligentsia
, scholars, actors, former officers, and prominent others. Upon identification, they were to be arrested and turned over to
Nazi
authorities following the invasion.
History
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For nearly two years before the invasion of
Poland
, between 1937 and 1939, the
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
was being secretly prepared in
Germany
.
[1]
It was compiled by the "Zentralstelle IIP Polen" (Central Unit IIP-Poland) unit of the
Geheime Staatspolizei
or
Gestapo
("Secret State Police") from the
clandestine human intelligence
supplied by members of
German minority in Poland
involved in the
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
who acted as
fifth column
.
[2]
The Central Unit IIP-Poland was created by
Reinhard Heydrich
to co-ordinate the ethnic cleansing of all Poles in "
Operation Tannenberg
" and the
Intelligenzaktion
, two codenames for the extermination actions directed at the
Polish people
during the opening stages of
World War II
.
[3]
Formally, the
Intelligenzaktion
was a second phase of Operation Tannenberg (
Unternehmen Tannenberg
), conducted by Heydrich's
Sonderreferat
. It lasted until January 1940 as the first part of the
Generalplan Ost
. In
Pomerania
alone, 36,000?42,000 Poles, including children, had been murdered by the end of 1939.
[3]
The list identified more than 61,000 members of Polish elite:
activists
,
intelligentsia
, scholars, actors, former officers,
Polish nobility
, Catholic priests, university professors, teachers, doctors, lawyers and even a prominent sportsman who had represented Poland in the
Berlin Olympics
in 1936. People in the Special Prosecution Book were either murdered outright by the
Einsatzgruppen
or the
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
or sent to concentration camps and murdered there. The German death squads, including
Einsatzkommando
16 and EK-
Einmann
, fell under direct command of SS-
Sturmbannfuhrer
Rudolf Troger, with overall command by
Reinhard Heydrich
.
[3]
The second and last edition of
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
was published in German and Polish in 1940 in occupied
Krakow
[4]
after the end of
AB-Aktion
(in German
Ausserordentliche Befriedungsaktion
).
[5]
Later lists were published under the name of
Fahndungsnachweis
. Only a small number of people on both lists managed to survive the German occupation.
See also
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- Sonderfahndungsliste
G.B. ("Special Search List Great Britain"), "
The Black Book
" of prominent residents of Britain.
References
[
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]
- ^
Stanisław D?browa-Kostka,
Hitlerowskie afisze ?mierci
(eng. "Nazi death posters"), KAW Warszawa 1983, p.339, (Polish),(German),(English)
- ^
Digital version of
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen
in ?l?ska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
- ^
a
b
c
Piotr Semkow,
IPN Gda?sk
(September 2006).
"Kolebka (Cradle)"
(PDF)
.
IPN Bulletin No. 8?9 (67?68), 152 Pages
. Warsaw:
Institute of National Remembrance
. 42?50 (44?51/152 in PDF).
ISSN
1641-9561
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 17 September 2018
. Retrieved
8 November
2015
– via direct download: 3.44 MB.
- ^
Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen. Erganzungsnachtrag uber entwichene oder vorzeitig entlassene Straf...
1 June 1940, Krakow,
- ^
Stanisław D?browa-Kostka,
Hitlerowskie afisze ?mierci
(eng. "Nazi death posters"), KAW Warszawa 1983, p.92, (Polish),(German),(English)
Bibliography
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]
- Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen. Erganzungsnachtrag uber entwichene oder vorzeitig entlassene Straf...
1. Juni 1940, Krakau,
- Andrzej Leszek Szcze?niak,
Plan zagłady Słowian. Generalplan Ost
, Polskie Wydawnictwo Encyklopedyczne PWE, Radom, 2001
- Fritz Arlt:
Polen- Ukrainer-Judenpolitik im Generalgouvernement fur die besetzten polnischen Gebiete 1939 bis 1940 in Oberschlesien 1941 bis 1943 und im Freiheitskampf der unterdruckten Ostvolker
, Lindhorst, Wissenschaftlicher Buchdienst Taege, 1995
- Wacław Długoborski:
Zweiter Weltkrieg und sozialer Wandel
, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen 1981, S. 309
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