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Military Special Court
Military Special Courts () or WSS was the underground court of the Polish Underground State during World War II. The only such extensive court system in German-occupied Europe. History In the structure of the Union of Armed Struggle Already from the end of 1939, local units of the Service for Poland's Victory (SZP), and later the Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ), executed traitors. It was a practice that commanders of the appropriate ranks submitted applications for execution to the commanders of the appropriate districts. There was also an ''ad hoc j''udicial panel of the SZP Headquarters, which issued several death sentences.Kowalski 2012. On April 16, 1940, the Committee of Ministers for Home Affairs issued the "Resolution on Hooded Courts in the Country", which was approved by the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of the Armed Forces and the Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski. The resolution established two court structures: * Military Hood Courts (), w ...
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Underground Court
The underground courts (') were World War II secret courts in occupied Poland, organized by the Polish government-in-exile. The courts determined punishments for citizens of Poland who were subject to Polish law before the war. History After the Polish Defense War of 1939, the German authorities of the General Government mobilized all the pre-war Polish policemen to the German service. The so-called Navy-Blue Police (''Policja granatowa'', nicknamed after the color of their uniforms) were used as an auxiliary unit of the Gestapo and Kripo, yet they had no means of executing law and order in the occupied country. At the same time, the German police forces and courts were more interested in persecution of Jews and members of the Polish intelligentsia and underground rather than common criminals. First underground, ad hoc courts were created alongside some of the first Polish resistance organizations as early as in 1939.Stanisław Salmonowicz, ''Polskie Państwo Podziemne'', Wy ...
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