Rodolf Arčibald Rajs (1875-1929) - u potrazi za istinom, pravdom i pravom - Lj. Dimić i dr. (ur.): Izabrana dela Rodolfa Arčibalda Rajsa, Zavod za udžbenike i Kriminalističko-policijski univerzitet, Beograd, 2019

Abstract

Umesto kamenih spomenika koje zub vremena "kruni", kako je nekada pisao Branislav Nušić posvećujući svoje literarno-memoarsko delo "Devetsto petnaesta" (Nušić, 1921) uspomeni na poginulog sina, srpski narod i Srbija se petoknjižjem koje čine sabrani Rajsovi tekstovi ("O zločinima Austro - Ugaro - Bugaro - Nemaca u Srbiji 1914-1918", "Ratni dopisi iz Srbije 1914-1918", "O Srbiji i Srbima /"Šta sam video i proživeo u velikim danima" i "Čujte Srbi"/ i tekstovi o Rajsu i njegovom delu ("Vizionar moderne policije" i "Srbi o Rajsu"), još jednom odužuje ovom istinoljubivom naučniku, humanisti, prijatelju. Na taj način čitaoci imaju mogućnost da sami vrednuju koliko je obrazovani i upućeni savremenik - naučnik, istraživač zločina, ratni izveštač iz Srbije, čija je "stajna tačka" bila veoma visoka, mogao uraditi i "dogledati" u vremenu ispunjenom zločinima, dinamičnim i dramatičnim procesima i kakav sud o njemu izriču naučnici u decenijama koje povezuju Rajsa sa trenutkom u kome živimo.

Instead of stone monuments weathered by time, as Branislav Nušić wrote in his literary-memoir work "the year of 1915" (Nušić, 1921) dedicated to the memory of his son who was killed in war, the Serbian nation, it is with the five-volume edition of Reiss's collected texts ("About the crimes of Austro-Bulgaro-Germans in Serbia 1914-1918", "War Reports from Serbia 1914-1918", "About Serbia and Serbs"/ "What I saw and experienced in great days" and "Listen Serbs") and the texts about Reiss and his oeuvre ("Visionary of the Modern Police" and "Serbs about Reiss") that the Serbian people and Serbia once again express gratitude to this truth-loving scientist, humanist and friend. Thanks to this, readers will be able to evaluate on their own how this educated and well-versed contemporary - scientist, crime investigator, war correspondent from Serbia - whose "standing point" was quite high, could do and "see" in the era filled with crimes, as well as dynamic and dramatic processes, and how he is judged by the scientists in the decades connecting Reiss with the time we live in.