Aktywność społeczno-kulturalna Polaków na terenie Marchii Granicznej (Grenzmark Posen Westpreusen) w latach 1933–1939
Social and cultural activity of Poles in the Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (Gren- zmark Posen Westpreusen) between 1933 and 1939

Summary/Abstract: The article presents social and cultural activities taking place in the Frontier March of Posen-West Prussia (Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen, Borderland) which operated between 1922and 1938 in the first, short period of the existence of the Third German Reich – until theoutbreak of World War II (1933–1939). The paper discusses the activities of various Polishorganizations and institutions in the Nazi German state, including people’s banks, farmingorganizations, minority schools, scout troops, libraries, community centres, music institu-tions, and sports clubs. Although the Third Reich was a nationalist and totalitarian state,these organisations and institutions were allowed because the Third Reich pretended to bein good relations with the Republic of Poland. After the outbreak of the war between the twocountries in September 1939, any separate socio-political and cultural activity of Poles inGermany, including the Borderland, was banned, and all the institutions and organisationspresented in the article were dissolved.

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