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New film on Polish highlanders’ Nazi collaboration stirs controversy
"White Courage" focuses on a little-known episode of WWII history.
After the German conquest of Poland in the autumn of 1939, Goral activist Henryk Szatkowski and Witalis Wieder, a reserve officer in the Polish Army and Abwehr agent living in Zakopane, a town in Podhale, successfully tried convincing the occupiers to give the local highlanders a privileged status. On 7 November 1939, just one day after the SS had arrested 184 professors from Kraków universities and deported them to concentration camps, a Goral delegation headed by Wacław Krzeptowski, chairman of the agrarian People’s Party in Nowy Targ county and the leader of peasants’ protests in the 1930s, greeted Hans Frank, who, as governor general of the occupied Polish lands would oversee the butchering of millions. In an article titled “‘Góralszczyzna’ po niemiecku” (“‘Goral Culture’ in German”) for right-wing weekly Do Rzeczy, historian Maciej Korkuć lambasted the fictional uniforms as well as the fact that the Polish underground’s actions against the collaborators are barely mentioned.
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