Karol Małcużyński

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Karol Małcużyński (born June 20, 1922 in Warsaw ; died June 13, 1984 there ) was a Polish journalist.

Life

Karol Małcużyński came from a middle-class family, his father was director of the Warsaw Stock Exchange , his older brother Witold Małcużyński pursued a career as a pianist that was shaped by fleeing from the German occupation of Poland. His son Karol Małcużyński, born in 1953, also became a journalist.

Małcużyński began studying after the liberation of Poland in 1945, but then went to occupied Germany without a degree and worked as a correspondent for the Nuremberg Trials . In 1946 he published the book Norymberga Niemcy 1946 about it . In 1966 he came back to the subject with the book Oskarżeni nie przyznają się do winy (The accused plead not guilty ).

Between 1946 and 1948 he was the Paris correspondent for the Robotnik newspaper , which had been re-established by the socialist party PPS . After the forced merger of the PPS with the communist PPR to form the Polish United Workers' Party (PVAP), the newspaper went on in the party organ Trybuna Ludu .

After returning to Warsaw in the 1950s, he wrote texts for the Polish newsreel ( Polish Polska Kronika Filmowa ). From 1956 to 1960 he was press attaché at the Polish embassy in London . In the 1970s he worked as a presenter for the news magazine Monitor of Polish Television . In 1971 he was elected to the presidium of the authors' association ZAiKS and in 1974 to the board of the Society of Polish-Soviet Friendship . In 1976 he was elected as a non-party member of the 7th Sejm and re-elected in 1980. In this time fell imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981. 1982 he abstained in a vote in the Sejm pointedly criticized the vote and subsequently public voting behavior of other Members.

The writer and composer Stefan Kisielewski gave him the role of the protagonist in the novel Ludzie w akwarium in 1976 .

Fonts (selection)

Norymberga Niemcy 1946
  • Niemiecka propaganda w Generalnej Guberni , in: Pneglgd Socjalistyczny, 1945, no. 2, pp. 34–39
  • Norymberga Niemcy 1946 . Warsaw: Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza Wiedza, 1946
  • with Bronisław Wiernik: Józef Pehm-Mindszenty - szpieg w kardynalskiej purpurze . Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza, 1949
  • with Bronisław Wiernik: Trasa WZ. 22. VII. 1949 . Warsaw: Spółdzielnia Wydawniczo-Oświatowa "Czytelnik", 1949
  • From the other bank: reports from the Polish western regions . Berlin: Verlag Blick nach Polen, 1950
  • The wedding in Nowa Huta . Verlag Blick nach Polen, 1952 Small German-Polish Series, Vol. 3.
  • At the peace frontier . 1953
  • with Stanisław Jankowski: Warsaw has been rebuilt . Warsaw: Polonia Verlag, 1962
  • Gomułka Plan: To freeze core armaments in Central Europe . Warsaw: Zachodnia agencja prasowa, 1965
  • Oskarżeni never przyznają się do winy . Warsaw, 1970
    • Excerpts from Radlmaier, Der Nürnberger Lernprozess , 2001, pp. 97–102; Pp. 213-222. Translation of Silvie Preußer

literature

  • Malcuzynski, Karol , in: Stanley S. Sokol: The ?? Polish biographical dictionary: profiles of nearly 900 Poles who have made lasting contributions to world civilization (1992) . Wauconda, Ill .: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1992 ISBN 086516245X , p. 244
  • Steffen Radlmaier : The Nuremberg learning process: from war criminals and star reporters . Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 2001 ISBN 978-3-8218-4503-6 , series Die Other Bibliothek . Short biography p. 356f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karol Maluzynski , at The National Archives
personal data
SURNAME Małcużyński, Karol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1984
Place of death Warsaw