The German Minority in Interwar Poland

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.

Author: Winson Chu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/06/2014
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781107634626

About the Author
Chu, Winson: - Winson Chu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has received awards and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC, and the American Council on Germany.

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