Orphans Of Versailles
Orphans Of Versailles

Author: Richard Blanke

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0813161398

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The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles. The Polish government now confronted a German minority in a region where power relationships had been the other way around for more than a century. Orphans of Versailles examines the complex psychological and political situation of Germans consigned to Poland, their treatment by the Polish government and society, their diverse strategies for survival, their place in international relations, and the impact of National Socialism. Not a one-sided study of victimization, this book treats the contributions of both the Polish state and the German minority to the conflict that culminated in their mutual destruction. Based largely on research in European archives, it sheds new light on a key aspect of German-Polish relations, one that was long overshadowed by concern over the German revanchist threat and the hostility that subsequently dominated the German-Polish relationship. Thanks to the new political situation in central Europe, however, this topic can finally be addressed evenhandedly.

Orphans Of Versailles
Orphans Of Versailles

Author: Richard Blanke

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-11-21

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0813187826

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The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles. The Polish government now confronted a German minority in a region where power relationships had been the other way around for more than a century. Orphans of Versailles examines the complex psychological and political situation of Germans consigned to Poland, their treatment by the Polish government and society, their diverse strategies for survival, their place in international relations, and the impact of National Socialism. Not a one-sided study of victimization, this book treats the contributions of both the Polish state and the German minority to the conflict that culminated in their mutual destruction. Based largely on research in European archives, it sheds new light on a key aspect of German-Polish relations, one that was long overshadowed by concern over the German revanchist threat and the hostility that subsequently dominated the German-Polish relationship. Thanks to the new political situation in central Europe, however, this topic can finally be addressed evenhandedly.

Germany, Poland, and Europe
Germany, Poland, and Europe

Author: Marcin Zaborowski

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780719068164

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Zaborowski's study is a vivid and authoritative account of Polish-German relations, convincingly analysed using 'Europeanisation' as a conceptual prism. The book evaluates the relationship from both a historical and contemporary perspective, assessing its broader European significance. Zaborowski puts particular emphasis upon EU enlargement, which he sees as a centrepiece of the post-1989 rapprochement between the two states.

Poland and Germany in the European Union
Poland and Germany in the European Union

Author: Elżbieta Opiłowska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1000373177

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This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, across such different policy areas as trade, foreign and security policy, energy, fiscal issues, health and social policy, migration and local governance. By studying the impact of the three explanatory categories – the historical legacy, interdependence and asymmetry – on the bilateral relationship, the book explores the patterns of cooperation and identifies the driving forces and hindering factors of the bilateral relationship. Covering the Polish–German relationship since 2004, it demonstrates, in a systematic way, that it does not qualify as embedded bilateralism. The relationship remains historically burdened and asymmetric, and thus it is not resilient to crises. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European and EU Politics, German politics, East/Central European Politics, borderlands studies, and more broadly, for international relations, history and sociology.

Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War Europe
Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War Europe

Author: Stefan Szwed

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781349959280

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This book examines the post-Cold War Polish-German relationship and the puzzling rise of foreign and security policy differences between the two states during the 2000s. Through an investigation of four policy issues – NATO’s out-of-area mandate, European Constitution and the division of voting power in the Council, relations with Russia and the eastern neighbours, as well as EU energy policy – the author identifies the roots of their conflict in a structure of material, spatial and temporal asymmetries. Rather than treat them as currency, however, he explores the less conspicuous ways in which power is exercised and structure matters inside a community governed by shared rules and norms. In pursuing its research question, theoretical work, historical reconstructions and empirical analyses, the book combines security studies, transatlantic relations, European integration, and Polish and German politics with general theorizing and conceptual grounding in international relations and political science.

Poland Between East and West
Poland Between East and West

Author: Josef Korbel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1400876583

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Though Russia and Germany were far apart in their principal goals, their negative attitude toward the Europe of Versailles brought these two "outcasts" together. Poland, a “child” of the Versailles Peace Treaty, was a bar to the Soviet drive toward a revisionist policy. Therefore, in an atmosphere of mutual distrust and deceit, Russia and Germany entered into an intricate series of negotiations designed to destroy Poland either by military action or by diplomatic pressure. Josef Korbel traces the strange course of these negotiations, basing his work on original documents such as the files of the German Foreign Office, the personal papers of General von Seeckt, documents of the Soviet government, the Supreme Soviet, and the Third International, and on original Polish sources. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations
Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations

Author: K. Kopp

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1137052058

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Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish collective memories and their dialogic, transnational character, showing the collective nature of postmemory and the pressures that shape it.

Germany, Poland, and the Danzig Question, 1937–1939
Germany, Poland, and the Danzig Question, 1937–1939

Author: Rashid A. Halloway

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 0761872280

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Germany, Poland, and the Danzig Question, 1937—1939 explores the events that led to the Nazi occupation of Danzig, which was the catalyst of World War II. In this book Rashid A. Halloway sheds light on German, Polish, and British diplomatic negotiations at the highest level during a time when diplomacy was at a premium due to the perceived threat to peace in Europe under Hitler. Halloway presents a study of intense diplomatic negotiations in the pre-World Ware II years between Germany and Poland relating to Germany’s desire to gain access, through Poland along the Baltic Sea, to East Prussia, more particularly to the Free City of Danzig, by establishing a secure transport route through that part of Poland, commonly referred to as the “Polish Corridor” and the negative result.

Poland 1939
Poland 1939

Author: Roger Moorhouse

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0465095410

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A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London). For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians. In Poland 1939, Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a harrowing and very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.

Into Free Poland Via Germany (Classic Reprint)
Into Free Poland Via Germany (Classic Reprint)

Author: Martha Chickering

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780666085870

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Excerpt from Into Free Poland Via Germany Miss Martha Chickering was leader of the first unit of Polish Grey Samaritans to be sent into Poland. Miss Chickering returned to the United States in November, 1919, after establishing the unit in Warsaw. The Polish Grey Samaritans are the outcome of an idea suggested by Madame Laura G. de Turczynowicz when she came to the Y. W. C. A. in 1917. Madame Turczynowicz urged that Polish girls in America should be given training which would fit them for reconstruction service in Poland. Her suggestion was adopted, and recruits were sought throughout the country. Polish probation courses were given in Cleveland, Trenton, Rochester, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Out of three hundred girls who took the probation courses, ninety qualified for the intensive course in the Polish Grey Samaritan School, equipped and opened on 53rd Street, New York City, October, 1918. Two separate courses of study were planned: Course I included health education and physiology, industrial history, social problems, institutional visiting, systematized housekeeping, bookkeeping, cooking, arts and crafts, English, Polish, gymnasium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.