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Lethal Laws and Lethal Education: A Case Study of Soviet Genocide Against Polish Foresters and Five Decades of Infodemic

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dc.abstract.enGenocide as a part of nation or ethnic group extermination process is not a welldefined concept. Its meaning is understood intuitively. When law intervenes, the issue of defining the term comes back. Nevertheless, the Polish nation has been recognized as subjected to genocide activities during the Second World War by the Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. The paper focuses on the genocide against mainly one group of Poles that is to say foresters. The martyrologic evidence proves that foresters were an occupation group which for a variety of reasons suffered most. The research carried out in this respect by the National Forests in Poland has revealed that over 20% of pre-war staff of the institution actually lost their lives. They were killed by the German and Soviet occupiers, as well as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.1 In the eastern parts of Poland foresters and their families were deported and sent to various labour and extermination camps e.g. in Siberia. The aim of the paper is to present the scale of genocide with the main emphasis on genocide against foresters. The definition of genocide provided by Lemkin (Axis rule in occupied Europe: laws of occupation, analysis of government, proposals for redress, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law, Columbia University Press, Washington, DC, New York, 79–95, 1994), who coined the term, is a starting point for the analysis. The main research methods included the analysis of pertinent literature and source materials as well as the semiotic analysis of genocide circumstances. The thesis put forward by the authors is that foresters due to their education, practical skills, professional experience and insight knowledge turned out to be the group especially vulnerable and subjected to extermination on purpose.
dc.affiliationWydział Leśny i Technologii Drewna
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Entomologii i Fitopatologii Leśnej
dc.contributor.authorGwiazdowicz, Dariusz J.
dc.contributor.authorMatulewska, Aleksandra
dc.date.access2026-01-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-14T11:51:04Z
dc.date.available2026-01-14T11:51:04Z
dc.date.copyright2020-08-17
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Genocide as a part of nation or ethnic group extermination process is not a well-defined concept. Its meaning is understood intuitively. When law intervenes, the issue of defining the term comes back. Nevertheless, the Polish nation has been recognized as subjected to genocide activities during the Second World War by the Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. The paper focuses on the genocide against mainly one group of Poles that is to say foresters. The martyrologic evidence proves that foresters were an occupation group which for a variety of reasons suffered most. The research carried out in this respect by the National Forests in Poland has revealed that over 20% of pre-war staff of the institution actually lost their lives. They were killed by the German and Soviet occupiers, as well as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.lasy.gov.pl/pl/wideo/telewizja-lasow-panstwowych/wideo/martyrologia-lesnikow-Katy%c5%84-sybir-kresy">https://www.lasy.gov.pl/pl/wideo/telewizja-lasow-panstwowych/wideo/martyrologia-lesnikow-Katyń-sybir-kresy</jats:ext-link>). In the eastern parts of Poland foresters and their families were deported and sent to various labour and extermination camps e.g. in Siberia. The aim of the paper is to present the scale of genocide with the main emphasis on genocide against foresters. The definition of genocide provided by Lemkin (Axis rule in occupied Europe: laws of occupation, analysis of government, proposals for redress, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law, Columbia University Press, Washington, DC, New York, 79–95, 1994), who coined the term, is a starting point for the analysis. The main research methods included the analysis of pertinent literature and source materials as well as the semiotic analysis of genocide circumstances. The thesis put forward by the authors is that foresters due to their education, practical skills, professional experience and insight knowledge turned out to be the group especially vulnerable and subjected to extermination on purpose.</jats:p>
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dc.description.number4
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dc.description.volume35
dc.identifier.doi110.1007/s11196-020-09767-w
dc.identifier.eissn1572-8722
dc.identifier.issn0952-8059
dc.identifier.urihttps://sciencerep.up.poznan.pl/handle/item/6811
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-020-09767-w
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law
dc.relation.pages1521–1550
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dc.subject.engenocide
dc.subject.engenocide of foresters
dc.subject.enextermination of professionals
dc.subject.engenocide and law
dc.subject.enfake news
dc.subject.eninfodemic
dc.subject.enlanguage of propaganda
dc.titleLethal Laws and Lethal Education: A Case Study of Soviet Genocide Against Polish Foresters and Five Decades of Infodemic
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