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Harry Schulz
Harry Schulz served as deputy head of the Selbstschutz in Łobżenica and commandant of the camp at Górka Klasztorna. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Łobżenica · Górka Klasztorna · Wyrzysk county through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- In autumn 1939 he was deputy head of the Selbstschutz in Łobżenica. He ran the camp established in the monastery at Górka Klasztorna, where Poles and Jews were imprisoned. (Institutional source: edukacja.ipn.gov.pl; Institutional source: ph.muzeum1939.pl)
- The Institute for Western Affairs publishes Antoni Knajdek’s testimony about Schulz beating the teacher Kuliński. The IPN catalogue also connects him with command of executions at Paterek; we do not conflate that site with the monastery. (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl; Institutional source: edukacja.ipn.gov.pl)
- In July 1940 the German Special Court in Bydgoszcz sentenced him to 15 years of penal imprisonment for rapes classified under racist legislation as “racial defilement.” That judgment did not prosecute the mass murders. (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl)
- After the war he concealed his identity as Henryk Szulc. Arrested in March 1953, he was sentenced to death by a Polish court; the sentence was carried out in February 1954. (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile connects local command with personal violence described by witnesses. Institution, place and individual perpetrator are distinguished: membership in the Selbstschutz does not suffice to attribute every local crime to every member. (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl; Institutional source: ph.muzeum1939.pl)
Key events and mechanisms
- 1939 – position in Łobżenica’s Selbstschutz and command of the Górka Klasztorna camp (Institutional source: edukacja.ipn.gov.pl; Institutional source: ph.muzeum1939.pl)
- July 1940 – German sentence of 15 years of penal imprisonment (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl)
- March 1953 – arrested while living under a concealed identity (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl)
- 1953 – Polish death sentence; February 1954 – execution of the sentence (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl; Institutional source: edukacja.ipn.gov.pl)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
According to the Institute for Western Affairs, the summary court in Bydgoszcz found him guilty of murdering 186 residents of Wyrzysk county. The IPN catalogue identifies Nakło as the place of trial. Following the 1953 judgment, the death sentence was carried out in February 1954. The judicial figure is not the total of all local Selbstschutz victims. (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl; Institutional source: edukacja.ipn.gov.pl)
Limits of the evidence
Witness accounts were collected after the war; details from Jan Topór’s testimony are not presented as findings from our own examination of the original files. The German rape conviction and the Polish murder conviction were separate proceedings. No execution day or method is given without examined documentation. The birth date comes from a reproduced photograph caption, not a civil register. (Institutional source: podstrony.iz.poznan.pl; Institutional source: towarzystwolobzenica.pl)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.