“Polish Post in Gdańsk. History of German Judicial Murder” is the title of the lecture that will be given on October 23 by Dieter Schenk, a criminologist and writer, and also a former director of the German criminal police and researcher of the history of national socialism. The event will take place at the Institute of History of the University of Lodz (UŁ).

38 Polish Post Officers, who defended the Polish Post Office building in Gdańsk against German invasion on September 1, 1939, were sentenced to death by a German military court, which recognized them as “criminal partisans”. Dieter Schenk influenced modern court of the Federal Republic of Germany to recognize this conviction as a judicial murder through his book, which echoed in the world of historians and lawyers. His book presents the historical and legal aspects of jurists’ criminal liability for this crime.

The lecture will be translated from German into Polish. In 2017, Dieter Schenk received the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Lodz.