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Max Daume
Max Daume served as Order Police officer in Warsaw responsible for repression and hostage executions. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Warsaw and Wawer 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
- Daume was an Order Police officer in Warsaw whose documented responsibility included repression and the execution of hostages.
- His profile connects him with the Wawer crime and the early system of retaliatory repression in the Warsaw district.
- He was extradited to Poland, sentenced to death in the Warsaw trial and executed in 1947.
Place in the chain of responsibility
The case provides an early example of collective punishment and the hostage system being implemented by the Order Police. It does not turn Daume’s role at a particular point in time into responsibility for the whole Warsaw police apparatus.
Key events and mechanisms
- the Wawer crime
- the early system of retaliatory repression in the Warsaw district
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
Daume was extradited to Poland, sentenced to death in the Warsaw trial and executed in 1947.
Limits of the evidence
His precise office at the time of the crime must be stated carefully, without retrospectively generalising his responsibility to the whole Warsaw police force.
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.