While working for living, he studied psychology at Yagiellonian University in Cracow.
After the Soviet invasion of Poland, the authorities confiscated the estate and evicted Łobaczewski’s family. During the Nazi occupation he worked on the farm and as an apiarist, then as a soldier of the Home Army, an underground Polish resistance organisation. Łobaczewski was born in 1921 and grew up on a rural estate in the beautiful piedmountain region of Poland. Knowledge of its nature, how it creates its networks and spreads, how insidious is its guileful approach, is the only antidote. For it is a certainty that morality and humanism cannot long withstand the predations of Evil. Shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil, poignant in the more literary passages where the author reveals the suffering experienced by the researchers who were contaminated or destroyed by the disease they were studying, this is a book that should be required reading by every citizen of every country that claims a moral or humanistic foundation. Scientists living under an oppressive regime decide to study it clinically, to study the founders and supporters of an evil regime to determine what common factor is at play in the rise and propagation of man’s inhumanity to man. Political Ponerology: The scientific study of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes was forged in the crucible of the very subject it studies. The third copy was produced after one of the scientists working on the project escaped to America in the 1980s. Its receipt was never acknowledged, no word was ever heard from the courier – the manuscript and all the valuable data was lost. The second copy, reassembled painfully by scientists working under impossible conditions of repression, was sent via a courier to the Vatican.
The first manuscript of this book went into the fire five minutes before the arrival of the secret police in Communist Poland.
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