Konrad Graczyk. “Postwar Convictions of Nazi Judges and Prosecutors for Their Activities in the Occupied Polish Territories (1939-1945).” Journal on European History of Law, vol. 15, no. 1 (2024): 47-56.
This article provides a synthetic overview of prior research into the postwar criminal convictions of lawyers, specifically judges and prosecutors, who operated in Nazi-occupied Polish territories. The primary focus is on prosecutions conducted before Polish courts, while the analysis is framed against three normative models identified in the literature: the Nuremberg judgment, West German legal doctrine including the Radbruch formula, and East German judicial practice. Within this comparative context, the article explores whether Polish legislation and judicial practice represent a distinct approach to legal accountability. It considers whether this body of postwar jurisprudence constitutes a fourth, uniquely Polish model for addressing the professional complicity of lawyers in systems of state injustice.