The German minority in interwar Poland

The German minority in interwar Poland

by Chu, Winson

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The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg, and German - were forced to live together in one, new state. After the First World War, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for those who had once lived in the German Empire. Rather than becoming more cohesive over time, Poland's ethnic Germans remained divided and did not un…

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The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg, and German - were forced to live together in one, new state. After the First World War, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for those who had once lived in the German Empire. Rather than becoming more cohesive over time, Poland's ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from the German state exacerbated these differences, while National Socialism created new hierarchies and unleashed bitter intra-ethnic conflict among German minority leaders. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed "Germans" as a homogeneous, single group of people. His revealing study shows that nationalist agitation could divide as well as unite an embattled ethnicity"--Provided by publisher

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  • Publication Date:2012

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xxii, 320 s. : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781107008304, 1107008301
  • oclc:ocn827199306
  • LC Classification:DK4121.5.G4
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8310438

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1. Phantom Germans: Weimar revisionism and Poland (1918-1933) -- 2. Residual citizens: German minority politics in Western Poland (1918-1933) -- 3. On the margins of the minority: Germans in Łódź (1900-1933) -- 4. Negotiating Volksgemeinschaft: national socialism and regionalization (1933-1937) -- 5. Revenge of the periphery: German empowerment in Central Poland (1933-1939) -- 6. Lodzers into Germans? (1939-2000) -- Conclusion

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Allemagne -- Relations extérieures -- P… Allemands -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. --… Diplomatic relations Ethnic relations -- Political aspects Germans Germans -- History -- 20th century. -- … Germany Germany -- Foreign relations -- Poland History Poland Poland -- Ethnic relations Poland -- Foreign relations -- Germany Poland -- Politics and government -- 19… Politics and government Pologne -- Politique et gouvernement --… Pologne -- Relations extérieures -- All…

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Chu, Winson

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