15 September 1997 A POLISH SCREENING LAW went into effect on 3 Au-gust, prohibiting former secret police collabora-tors from holding high-level government posts.Top officials will have to declare if they served in or col-laborated with the communist secret services. A week later, Senator Gerhard Bartodziej, leader of Po-land’s German minority, admitted he had been a “conscious and secret collaborator” but […]
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