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Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union from the 1930S to the 1950S” That Took Place in Warsaw in March 2015 Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s Edited by Magnus Brechtken, Władysław Bułhak and Jürgen Zarusky We dedicate this volume to the memory of Arseni Borisovich Roginsky (1946-2017), the co-founder and long-time chairman of the board of Memorial, and to the memory of Jürgen Zarusky (1958-2019), who dedicated his academic life to the research on historical and political justice and inspired this volume. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Der Band wird im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 auf dem Dokumentenserver »Zeitgeschichte Open« des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin bereitgestellt (https://doi.org/10.15463/ifz-2019-1). Die Veröffentlichung wurde durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds für Monografien der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft gefördert. © Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019 www.wallstein-verlag.de Vom Verlag gesetzt aus der Adobe Garamond Umschlaggestaltung: Susanne Gerhards, Düsseldorf unter Verwendung zeitgenös- sischer Illustrationen. Von oben nach unten: Standbild aus der Aufnahme des Dritten Moskauer Schauprozess 1938, https://vimeo.com/147767191; Volksgerichtshof, Prozeß nach dem 20. Juli 1944, © Bundesarchiv, Bild 151-39-23 / CC-BY-SA 3.0; Prozess gegen Priester in Krakau (Proces księży Kurii Krakowskiej), Zygmunt Wdowiński 1953 © CAF, Polska Agencja Prasowa S.A. Druck und Verarbeitung: Hubert & Co, Göttingen ISBN 978-3-8353-3561-5 Contents Magnus Brechtken, Władysław Bułhak and Jürgen Zarusky (†) Introduction . 9 1. Varieties of Political Justice in the Soviet Union, Germany and Poland 1930s to 1950s Yan Rachinsky “The Lists” of Extrajudicial Convictions in the Period 1937-1938 . 27 Yuri Shapoval The “Union for the Liberation of Ukraine” (“SVU”) Trial: Fabrication, Mechanisms, Consequences . 36 Iryna Ramanava The “Lepel Case” and Regional Show Trials in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) in 1937 . 54 Ingo Müller Judicial and Extrajudicial Political Persecution under the National Socialist Dictatorship – Structures, Logic, and Developments . 74 Ingo Loose Special Courts in the Annexed Polish Regions (1939-1945): Occupation Period Instruments of Terror and Social History Source . 84 Maximilian Becker Propaganda and Justice: The “Obornik Murder Trial”, August 25-September 4, 1941 . 99 Jarosław Rabiński Score Settling: The “French Chapter” of Polish Politics in Exile during World War II . 123 5 contents 2. Dealing with State Crimes Andrzej Paczkowski Crime, Treason and Greed: The German Wartime Occupation of Poland and Polish Post-War Retributive Justice . 143 Władysław Bułhak In Search of Political Justice, 1939-2000: From the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland to the Institute of National Remembrance . 179 Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel Post-War Reckonings: Political Justice and Transitional Justice in the Theory and Practice of the Main Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland in 1945 . 194 Joanna Lubecka German Crimes Tried in Poland: A Political and Legal Analysis on the Example of Supreme National Tribunal Trials in Southern Poland . 210 Adam Dziurok The Specific Character of Prosecuting Nazi Crimes in the Borderlands (on the Example of the Special Criminal Court in Katowice in 1945-1946) . 239 Hubert Seliger Political Lawyers: The Example of Dr. jur. Alfred Seidl, Defence Attorney at the Nuremberg Trials and Bavarian Interior Minister . 251 Nikita Petrov Judicial and Extra-Judicial Punishment and Acts of Retribution against German Prisoners of War, 1941-1945 . 265 Łukasz Jasiński Polish and Czechoslovak Retribution against Germany, 1945-1949: A Comparison . 297 6 contents Marek Kornat Lex Retro Agit: Polish Legislation on Nazi German War Criminals in the Concepts of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London (1942-1943) . 315 Contributor List . 332 7 Magnus Brechtken, Władysław Bułhak and Jürgen Zarusky (†) Introduction1 Political Justice and Transitional Justice seem to be at best contingently relat- ed terms. Political Justice is usually associated with atonement for political repression and injustice, while Transitional Justice is a means of overcoming a repressive past. But the two phenomena are not as strictly separable as may seem. In 1961, when the term “Transitional Justice” did not exist yet, the German-American jurist and political theorist Otto Kirchheimer, treated “Trial by Fiat of the Successor Regime” as a form of political justice. This formulation was the title of the eighth chapter of his classic study Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends.2 But Kirchheimer was far from denouncing Nuremberg as victors’ justice in the way many old Nazi apologists did (and new ones do now). For Kirchheimer, political justice is not a pejorative, but an analytical term. Somewhat paradoxically, if inevita- bly, it is the spread of the rule of law that leads to the extension of political schemes into the court room. Legal procedures lend authenticity to political action and specific legitimacy to power holders. This holds true for liberal democracies where legal procedures follow the principles of the rule of law and for totalitarian dictatorships where political trials are staged as cruel car- icatures of justice which, more often than not, is not so obvious to the vast majority of its subjects. The great Moscow show trials of 1936-1938 offer a 1 The editors would like to thank Anne-Kristin Hübner for her tremendous support in preparing this volume, particularly in organizing the communication with all authors. We also thank her and Antoni Bohdanowicz for the rarely appreciated com- mitment as proofreaders. The texts were written originally in Polish, German and Russian. We are very grateful to Antoni Bohdanowicz for his work on harmonizing the translations for the English-speaking reader. For any mistakes and deficiencies still in the texts the responsibility is with the editors. 2 Otto Kirchheimer, Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends (Princ- eton, 1961). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15463/ifz-2019-1-1 9 magnus brechtken, władysław bułhak and jürgen zarusky most striking model of this specific form of political justice. On the bench of the first of these three trials sat military judge Iona Nikitchenko who, less than ten years later, was to become the main Soviet judge at the Nuremberg trials. Although for the most part, American, British, French and Soviet ju- rists sought to achieve objective and balanced cooperation, Nikitchenko at one point tried to foist the Soviet propaganda version of the mass-murder of Polish officers in Katyn by Germans (rather than by the NKVD) on the International Military Tribunal. In thwarting this looming gross miscarriage of justice, the Western judges managed to prevent Nuremberg from turning into a farcical mockery of justice. This example, blatant as it may be, should suffice to demonstrate the overlapping of political and transitional justice. There is a plethora of other, more subtle entanglements between these two seemingly separate spheres of justice. The observable cases of confluence of classic political and transition- al justice, as well as Kirchheimer’s conception, inspired the idea of staging the international conference “Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s” that took place in Warsaw in March 2015. The organisers wished to focus on Europe’s sea- change decades from the 1930s to the 1950s which rumbled on to the once ominous, once tragic backdrop of dictatorship. The conference languages were Polish, Russian and German, whereas the editors of this volume decid- ed to publish the contributions in English in order to make them available to a wider international readership. This collection of articles is not intended to serve as an encyclopaedic overview but to provide a variety of insights into a somewhat less well-known field of academic inquiry. The papers of histo- rians (and one jurist) – both renowned and younger ones – from Germany, Poland and Russia, as well as Ukraine and Belarus, tackle a considerable range of aspects which should inspire comparative reflection. Through his- torical research into problems of power and justice, problems that have their specifics in any country and period but which also have their related struc- tural principles, the editors of this volume hope to contribute to overcoming national divisions and establishing common, transnational perceptions of our shared cultural heritage. The conference had been organized with the trilateral cooperation of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) with its headquarters in Warsaw and the Memorial So- ciety in Moscow. It should be underscored that the histories of all these three institutions reflect the fact that their countries had been specifically affected by the problems of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, the Second World War and, consequently, the problems of coming to terms with this difficult past. Without ever losing sight of one’s own history and responsibility for it, all 10 introduction three partners strove to organize a scholarly exchange of views that
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