Tomasz Szarota

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Tomasz Szarota on May 16, 2007 in Warsaw

Tomasz Marceli Szarota (born January 2, 1940 in Warsaw ) is a Polish historian and publicist .

Life

Szarota was born as the son of the Catholic publicist and literary historian Rafał Marcel Blüth, who was shot by the German occupation forces a few weeks before Tomasz Szarota's birth. His mother Elida Maria Szarota , a Romance and Germanist, survived the war and occupation.

Szarota devoted himself to the historical research of the 20th century, in particular the German occupation of Poland , the Polish resistance during the Second World War, and everyday life in occupied Warsaw and other occupied European capitals. From 1957 to 1962 he completed a history degree at Warsaw University . From 1962 he worked in the Polish Academy of Sciences at the Historical Institute. Since obtaining his professorship, he has headed the department on the history of Poland after 1945. In 1998 he gave lectures at the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences (“Visiting Fellow”). Furthermore he worked u. a. with a grant from the German Humboldt Foundation at various locations in Germany, Belgium and France.

Szarota gained notoriety within Poland primarily through a variety of articles on historical topics in the country's most important print media, such as the Polityka and Gazeta Wyborcza .

In December 2009, Szarota withdrew from the scientific advisory group of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation .

Works

  • Warsaw under the swastika. Life and everyday life in occupied Warsaw October 1, 1939 to July 31, 1944. (1985)
  • Życie codzienne w stolicach okupowanej Europy. (1995)
  • Niemcy i Polacy. Wzajemne postrzeganie i stereotypy. (1996)
  • The German Michel. History of a National Symbol and Car Stereotype (1998)
  • The beginning of annihilation. On the murder of the Jews in Jedwabne (with Edmund Dmitrów and Paweł Machcewicz, 2004)
  • The Germans in the eyes of the Poles during the Second World War , Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation, Warszawa 2009.
  • Stereotypes and conflicts: historical studies on German-Polish relations , Fiber, Osnabrück 2010, ISBN 978-3-938400-45-6 .

References

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Displaced persons center: Historians see Poland as a perpetrator people vilified , Welt online from December 16, 2009
  2. ^ Tomasz Szarota: The Germans in the eyes of the Poles during the Second World War