Published: 2017-06-30

The Influence of gradutes in the pre-war Lviv legal education on adjudication of the Provincial District Court in Opole in the years 1950–1954. The case study of the first head of the court in Opole, major Edward Kotkowski, and of the lawsuite shoemaker B

Janusz Oszytko
The Opole Studies in Administration and Law
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1281

Abstract

The influence of students of pre-war Lviv legal education on adjudicating by the Provincial District Court in Opole in the years 1950–1954 offers, in the author’s opinion, an important research issue. Especially in a case such as the one mentioned in title of the article, when the accused was a pre-war Polish citizen, a resident of the eastern borderlands of the Second Republic. It seems that the case is very instructive. It shows a pre-war graduate in law from the University of Lviv, who gradually passes onto the side of the communistic state and a simple man who knows the truth about the Soviet Union. Others are also described as officers of the security organs, mostly inept, but still exerting a tremendous pressure on society to consolidate communists’ power in postwar Poland. A railwayman of the Borderlands can be a summary of the summary – you should stick to the truth and not give in to strong pressure of the evil.

Keywords:

postwar Poland, communists, shoemaker, borderland, secret police

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Oszytko, J. (2017). The Influence of gradutes in the pre-war Lviv legal education on adjudication of the Provincial District Court in Opole in the years 1950–1954. The case study of the first head of the court in Opole, major Edward Kotkowski, and of the lawsuite shoemaker B. The Opole Studies in Administration and Law, 15(2), 201–212. https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1281

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