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Of Integrity, Rescue, and Splinter Groups in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume XXVIII
Eli Lederhendler
On Duty - The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust
On Duty - The Role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust
By Jan Grabowski
The Polish Police, commonly called the Blue or uniformed police in order to avoid using the term “Polish,” has played a most lamentable role in the extermination of the Jews of Poland. The uniformed police has been an enthusiastic executor of all German directives regarding the Jews.
Emanuel Ringelblum, Warsaw, 1943
Shortly after the occupation of Poland in the fall of 1939, the Germans created the Blue Police, consisting mainly of prewar Polish police officers. Within a short time, this police force was responsible for enforcing many anti-Jewish regulations issued by the Nazis. Who were these policemen, and how did they transform from ordinary policemen to murderous executioners? And what was the role of the Germans in this horrifying picture?
On the Catastrophe of the Thracian Jews in Yad Vashem Studies, Volume III
Nadejda S. Vasilieva
