ISBN:
9781139026437
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 320 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
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DDC:
305.83/10438
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1919-1939
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Außenpolitik
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Geschichte
;
Politik
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Germans / Poland / History / 20th century
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Deutsche
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Minderheitenpolitik
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Deutschland
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Polen
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Poland / Ethnic relations / Political aspects
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Poland / Politics and government / 1918-1945
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Poland / Foreign relations / Germany
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Germany / Foreign relations / Poland
;
Polen
;
Polen
;
Minderheitenpolitik
;
Deutsche
;
Geschichte 1919-1939
Abstract:
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 single homogeneous group of people. His revealing study shows that nationalist agitation could divide as well as unite an embattled ethnicity
Description / 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
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL9781107008304
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