Civility in Uncivil Times Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison
Kazimierz Moczarski (1907-1975) was a journalist, soldier, and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
2020
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| Series: | Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives
32 |
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | Kazimierz Moczarski (1907-1975) was a journalist, soldier, and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought for it in the authoritarian Poland of the 1930s. During the Second World War, he partook in the resistance movement. After the war, he spent eleven years in a Stalinist prison, including nine months in one cell with the Nazi Jürgen Stroop, who commanded the brutal pacification of the Warsaw Ghetto. The communists imprisoned Moczarski's wife. After release, he rebuilt the broken marriage, rejoined social life, and wrote a work about meeting Stroop. Translated into many languages, Conversations with the Executioner is a thorough study of totalitarianism. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (248 p.) |
| ISBN: | b17517 9783631834015 9783631834022 9783631834039 9783631828083 |
| Access: | Open Access |