Prasa regionalna o zdarzeniach powodziowych na ziemi wadowickiej w latach 1945-1972
Flood events in Ziemia Wadowicka according to regional press issues from 1945–1972

Summary/Abstract: In this paper authors presents the reconstruction of floods which occurred between 1945 – 1972 in the Wadowice area. The Reconstruction is based on press articles deriving from polish daily newspaper “Dziennik Polski” witch have been launched after II World War. Historical press issues are very succulent and copious source of geographical information. Even though the reconstruction of flood events based on newspaper data might be sketchy and also misleading, it gives the exceptional view on episodes from the past. Newspaper articles comprehend a lot of tragic stories of emergency services, troops, and society struggling with damaging power of streams, rivers, and landslides. It is a highly emotional type of narration entirely different from scientific papers. The newspapers were publishing also a plenty of additional information e. g. names of fatalities or the courses of relief efforts including rescue missions and mercy dashes. This sort of data are missing in other publication regarding to flood events. Accordingly, historical regional press may fortify our knowledge about flood events with new facts and facilitates comparisons between former and present-day floods. Moreover, in previous century printed press was a one of the main propaganda instrument, which was especially present and useful during natural disasters. For that reason historical newspaper articles are object of study for sociologists and historians.

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