Awakening of the Sleeping Beauty – Kreisau (Krzyżowa) and the Polish–German Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation Cover Image

Aufgeweckt aus dem Dornröschenschlaf – Kreisau- -Krzyżowa und der Deutsch-Polnische Nachbarschaftsvertrag
Awakening of the Sleeping Beauty – Kreisau (Krzyżowa) and the Polish–German Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation

Author(s): Annemarie Franke
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: Polish–German reconciliation; Reconciliation Mass; Polish–German relations after 1989; Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe; Polish–German treaties; Polish-German youth exchange

Summary/Abstract: The Polish–German Treaty of Good Neighbourship and Friendly Cooperation of June 17, 1991 refers to the topics and rules of the Joint Declaration of November 14,1989. During this period, the efforts to establish an international youth meeting place in the former estate of the anti-Nazi oppositionist Helmuth James von Moltke in Kreisau (Krzyżowa) in Lower Silesia were intensified. The article analyzes this example of mutual interactions between civil society initiative and government diplomacy.

  • Issue Year: 76/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-142
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: German