Czesław Gęborski

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Czesław Gęborski , also Gemborski (born June 5, 1925 in Dąbrowa Górnicza , † June 14, 2006 ), was the commandant of the Polish internment camp in Lamsdorf after 1945.

A case against Gęborski had already been opened in Poland in 1958 for the murder of at least 71 people, including several children, but was then acquitted for “inexperience”, apparently under political pressure from the Warsaw government.

In 1968, after the publication Die Hölle von Lamsdorf by camp doctor Heinz Esser, who was imprisoned there himself, the Hagen public prosecutor's office investigated Gęborski and seven other Polish members of the guards at the time. In 1977 charges were brought, but the proceedings were discontinued because the defendants from Poland were not extradited to Germany, but also out of political consideration for the policies of the then social-liberal government in Bonn, which did not want to damage relations with the communist-ruled Poland.

In 1989, after the end of communist rule and the political upheaval in Poland too, Upper Silesians with Polish citizenship who had been imprisoned in Lamsdorf reported Gęborski, who was now a retired secret service employee.

The militia sergeant, who was twenty at the time of the crime, was accused of killing camp inmates forty-eight times in a trial in Opole in 2000 . The legal representatives of ex-inmates of the Lamsdorf camp accused the Polish judicial authorities of delaying the process in order to avoid a verdict. In fact, Gęborski died before the trial ended. On September 10, 1999, an article about the beginning of the trial was published in the Tagesspiegel .

literature

  • Edmund Nowak: Shadow of Łambinowice: Attempt to reconstruct the history of the labor camp in Łambinowice in the years 1945–1946 , Oppeln / Opole 1994, ISBN 83-900241-2-8 (2nd edition 2005, ISBN 83-922178-5-3 ). Translation by Piotr Żwak from Polish ( Cień Łambinowic. Próba re Konstrukcji dziejów Obozu Pracy w Łambinowicach 1945–1946, Opole 1991).
  • Heinz Esser: The hell of Lamsdorf. Documentation about a Polish extermination camp . 2000 (12th edition; 1st edition 1969; the figures originally given therein are to be revised). ISBN 3899600002 (here: excerpts from the book )
  • Helga Hirsch : The revenge of the victims. Germans in Polish camps 1944–1950 , Berlin: Rowohlt, 1998, ISBN 3871343080
  • Hans-Ulrich Stoldt: The Lamsdorf massacre . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2001, p. 52-54 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubertus Knabe: Day of Liberation? The end of the war in East Germany , pp. 194/195, Propylaen Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3549072457
  2. ↑ Thomas Urban : The loss. The Expulsion of the Germans and Poles in the 20th Century , pp. 130/131, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3406541569 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Urban: The loss. The expulsion of the Germans and Poles in the 20th century .
  4. ↑ Thomas Urban: The loss. The expulsion of the Germans and Poles in the 20th century .
  5. ^ [1] Newspaper article about the beginning of the process in 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Gęborski, Czesław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemborski, Czesław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish officer, commander of the Polish internment camp in Lamsdorf after 1945
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dąbrowa Górnicza
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2006