Civility in Uncivil Times
Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison
Author(s)
Machcewicz, Anna
Language
EnglishAbstract
Kazimierz Moczarski (1907–1975) was a journalist, soldier, and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought for it in the authoritarian Poland of the 1930s. During the Second World War, he partook in the resistance movement. After the war, he spent eleven years in a Stalinist prison, including nine months in one cell with the Nazi Jürgen Stroop, who commanded the brutal pacification of the Warsaw Ghetto. The communists imprisoned Moczarski’s wife. After release, he rebuilt the broken marriage, rejoined social life, and wrote a work about meeting Stroop. Translated into many languages, Conversations with the Executioner is a thorough study of totalitarianism.
Keywords
anti-Semitism; Battle; Biography; Civility; Kazimierz; Machcewicz; Moczarski; Moczarski's; Polish; political prisoner; post-Stalinist thaw; Prison; prison letters; Quiet; Stalinism; Stalinist; terror; Times; Truth; Uncivil; UndergroundDOI
10.3726/b17517ISBN
9783631834015, 9783631834022, 9783631834039, 9783631828083Publication date and place
Bern, 2020Series
Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives,Classification
History