Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej

• Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland
• GKBZNP

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• Corporate Body
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1946/1991

In early 1946, the Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej (Provisional Government of National Unity) established the Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce to investigate crimes committed against Polish citizens. The investigations included collecting documents and other evidence as well as interviewing witnesses and survivors of such crimes. In 1991, Poland’s new democratic government transformed the GKBZNP into the Główna Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation), which is part of the Instytut P...

• Supreme National Court
• NTN

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Founded 1945

Soon after the war was over, Poland’s new Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej (Provisional Government of National Unity) created the Najwyższy Trybunał Narodowy to try particularly important war crimes cases. The NTN began its trials of major Nazi war criminals in the summer of 1946. Its first defendant was SS-Obergruppenführer Arthur Greiser, the last case for the NTN was against dr. Joseph Buhler, the Staatssekretär and deputy governor general in the Generalgouvernment.