Description

• Title:
  ‘A Fighter for Security to Isolate the Class Enemy’: The Prison Guard and Political Prisoners in 1944/45–1956
• Creator:
  Wolsza, Tadeusz
• Description:
  The article provides readers with figures and information about the Prison Guard and Service in various detention facilities in post-war Poland until 1956. The author analyses several detailed topics, like preparation for the job, staff shortages in the various penal institutions as well as prison officers’ (quite often sadistic) attitudes towards political prisoners.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Date:
  2020.12.25
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Kwartalnik Historyczny; Tom 127 Nr 4 (2020): English-Language Edition; 105-131;
  2451-1315;
  0023-5903
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2020.127.SI.1.04/27602
• Subject:
  repressions;
  prison service and guard;
  harassment;
  physical and psychological terror;
  penal institution
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2020.127.SI.1.04
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text