Wpływ postaw i zachowań na losy policjantów więzionych w obozie ostaszkowskim

The article is devoted to attitudes of State Police officers who after 17th September 1939 were taken prisoner in the Soviet Union and imprisoned in the camp of Ostaszków. It shows their evolution which was the result of internal legal system, and reflected in pejorative attitude of Soviet authorities. It indicates, on the one hand, the basic factors, accompanying prisoners-police officers almost through all their stay in the camp, that influence shaping attitudes and behaviors in relation to all prison community and each prisoner individually, and on the other hand, detailed factors which definitely influenced the attitudes and behaviors of individual prisoners-police officers and prisoners-police officers’ group. It allows to answer the question, which form of attitude change was displayed by majority of prisoners, and which by the smallest group, and how their choices influenced their fates.