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I rememer my grandfather teling me he saw a Polish collobroator being hanged in the square in Bialstok in 1945. Was this sort of thing common place?
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=Somerset]I rememer my grandfather teling me he saw a Polish collobroator being hanged in the square in Bialstok in 1945. Was this sort of thing common place?

Nope. Public executions were rare in post-war Poland. But they did take place.

After the war, Poland saw a few public executions of German and other mass murderers (also Poles). E.g., the one in Gdańsk was witnessed by 150.000 people when 11 members of the nearby death camp`s staff were hanged for their crimes, including 5 women. The hanging was deliberately cruel so that death came slowly, sometimes the victims` agony lasted even a dozen minutes. The crowd cheered and jeered. Loops were tied on victims` necks by former camp mates.

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I rememer my grandfather teling me he saw a Polish collobroator being hanged in the square in Bialstok in 1945. Was this sort of thing common place?

Executions of Poles in Poland were common after the war but they weren't public and those Poles who were executed weren't really collaborators, quite the contrary. In fact, the better Pole you were, the more likely you were to be executed.


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