File:Chiefs of the inspectorates of the Selbstschutz Westpreussen.jpg

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Polski: Szefowie inspektoratów pomorskiego “Selbstschutzu” – paramilitarnej formacji złożonej z przedstawicieli niemieckiej mniejszości narodowej, zamieszkującej przedwojenne terytorium Rzeczypospolitej. Między wrześniem 1939, a kwietniem 1940 Selbstschutz wraz z innymi niemieckimi formacjami zamordował na Pomorzu kilkadziesiąt tysięcy Polaków. Zdjęcie jest elementem tzw. Albumu chwały Selbstschutzu (znanego także jako „album Alvenslebena”), odnalezionego po wojnie przez polskie władze. Zdjęcie pochodzi z archiwum Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce.

Od lewej stoją: SS-Standartenführer Heinrich Mocek – szef inspektoratu Selbstschutzu w Chojnicach,
Niezidentyfikowany oficer SS,
SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Spaarmann – do listopada 1939 szef inspektoratu Selbstschutzu w Bydgoszczy,
SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Meier – szef inspektoratu Selbstschutzu w Starogardzie Gdańskim, znany jako "Krwawy Meier",
SS-Obersturmbannführer dr Hans Kölzow – szef inspektoratu Selbstschutzu w Inowrocławiu,

SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Schnug – od grudnia 1939 szef inspektoratu Selbstschutzu w Bydgoszczy.
English: Chiefs of the inspectorates of the “Selbstschutz Westpreussen” – Pomeranian branch of so-called "Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz". It was a paramilitary formation composed of members of the German minority in pre-war Poland. Between September 1939 and April 1940 Selbstschutz - together with other Nazi-German formations - murdered tens of thousands of Poles in Pomerania. During the second world war this photo was placed in so-called "Album of fame of Selbstschutz" (known also as "Alvensleben Album"). After the end of war this album was found and taken over by the Polish authorities. It is now in the archives of the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland.

From the left:
SS-Standartenführer Heinrich Mocek – chief of the Selbstschutz’s inspectorate in Chojnice,
Unidentified SS officer,
SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Spaarmann - chief of the Selbstschutz’s inspectorate in Bydgoszcz to November 1939,
SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Meier – chief of the Selbstschutz’s inspectorate in Starogard Gdański, known as "Bloody Meier",
SS-Obersturmbannführer dr Hans Kölzow – chief of the Selbstschutz’s inspectorate in Inowrocław,

SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Schnug – chief of the Selbstschutz’s inspectorate in Bydgoszcz since December 1939.
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Source Tadeusz Kur, Trzy srebrne róże znaczą szlak zbrodni. Saga rodu von Alvenslebenów, Warszawa: wydawnictwo MON, 1975
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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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