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NEWS has just been received in London of the death, in deplorable circumstances, of Prof. Casimir Bartel, formerly rector and professor of geometry in Lwow Technical College and prime minister of Poland in 1926, 1929 and 1930. He was fifty–nine years of age. According to The Times of August 27, Prof. Bartel was shot by the Germans for conspiring with the Soviet authorities during the Russian occupation of Lwow. It is, however, known that Prof. Bartel refused to collaborate politically with the Russians, but did agree to co–operate solely in scientific and humanitarian matters. It was hoped that Prof. Bartel would leave Lwow after the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany, and become chairman of a committee in Russia to deal with Polish welfare problems, but he wished to remain at his college, where he was arrested a month ago. About sixty professors of the University and the Technical College at Lwow were arrested. They included Prof. S. Pilat, professor of petroleum technology, Prof. R. Rencki, professor of internal diseases, Prof. W. Sieradzki, professor of forensic medicine, and Prof. T. Ostrowski, professor of surgery. Their fate is unknown. Thus have the Germans repeated the same persecution of men of science and learning at Lwow which they carried out at Cracow, when a hundred and fifty university professors were sent to the concentration camp at Oranienberg.
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German Crimes at Lwow. Nature 148, 251 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148251b0
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