them. Such a constable, known as grajek,747 arranges the smuggling with those gendarmes and pays them their due. The fee for a wagon with about 2 thousand kg of smuggled goods is usually 400 zlotys. 100 zlotys goes to the Polish policemen (typically there are two of them), the gendarme also gets 100 zlotys; the “player” pays 85 zlotys to the constables who are on duty [10] at the outlet (usually 8 people), and takes the remaining 115 zlotys for himself. It should be noted that the “player” often has considerable unexpected expenses, as he must pay the chief of the Polish police, who frequently attends the check; sometimes the “player” is arrested and buying him out is a costly affair. There have been very few cases when gendarmes collaborated only with the Polish police, without the Order Service officers, since, as already mentioned, they generally prefer to deal with Jewish policemen in such matters. From time to time, special gendarmes are sent to the outlets, with orders to discover and destroy smuggled goods. There was a case when one such German, with whom arrangements had been made to let in several consecutive wagons with smuggled goods, allowed the first two cars in, and then stopped the rest, confiscating goods worth tens of thousands of zlotys, and arrested the people driving the wagons. Another gendarme sniffed out a gang of smugglers and wanted to “catch" them. To this end, he had an agreement with the constables to let the smugglers’ wagons in, on condition that all of them arrive at the same time. In this way, he wanted to do away with the whole gang and take the goods. His plan, however, failed because the Order Service officers sensed his deception and ordered the wagons to stay away. These examples show that not all gendarmes could be treated the same way, as there are various other people among them. Recently, at the outlet on Muranowska Street, a gendarme was approached by a shabbily dressed Jewish lad, about twenty years old, and asked to be let in to the gendarmerie guardhouse on Konwiktorska Street because he had something to tell to the Zugführer,748 and that the latter had told him to come. He refused to tell the gendarme what kind of business he had with the Zugführer. [12] In the end, the gendarme allowed the lad through; a short while later, he returned carrying a loaf of bread. Once again, the gendarme asked him why he had gone to the Zugführer. The young man replied that he had reported a large transport of smuggled goods which was
