Życie codzienne ludności niemieckiej w stolicy Kraju Warty Poznaniu na podstawie dokumentów z wybranych archiwów
Daily lives of German people in Poznań, the capital of the Wartheland, based on documents from selected archives

Summary/Abstract: In the years of the Second World War, Poznań (Germanized name - Posen), was the capital of the “model administrative unit” called Mustergau Wartheland and incorporated into Nazi Germany. From the outbreak of the war, the number of Germans in Poznań grew: in 1939, there were 6,000 Germans, and in 1944 - 100,000. They belonged to several heterogeneous groups such as: Germans from the Reich, displaced persons (mainly from the Baltic states), as well as the so-called Volksdeutsche. Their daily lives in Poznań have not been researched and described yet, even though this makes an interesting historiographical topic. In order to reconstruct them, one should not only refer to the rich resources of the State Archive in Poznań and the Bundesarchiv branches, but also include other, largely dispersed sources. These are stored in numerous German scientific archives and libraries (described in the article), which do not always specialize in studies on the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

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