Lecture co-sponsored by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies from Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe of the Free University of Berlin based on his recent book. Polish mayors were an important group of officials in the administrative apparatus of the General Government. Together with the German county governors and city governors, they shaped local politics and played an important role in the persecution and murder of Polish and European Jews, as well as in the exploitation of the General Government. Based on extensive archival research, the work presents carefully chosen Polish mayors and shows how they behaved during World War II. The speaker specializes in the history of the Holocaust and East-Central Europe, fascism, nationalism, the history of antisemitism, the history of the Soviet Union and the politics of memory.