Ethnic relations in Warmia and Masuria on the religion background in the first half of the twentieth century Cover Image

Stosunki narodowościowe na Warmii i Mazurach na tle religijnym w I połowie XX wieku
Ethnic relations in Warmia and Masuria on the religion background in the first half of the twentieth century

Author(s): Paweł Popieliński
Subject(s): Cultural history, Political history, 19th Century, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża
Keywords: national relationships in East Prussia; Polish movement in Warmia and Masuria before WW II; Warmiaks; Masurians; Germans; Catholicism in Warmia; Protestantism in Masuria

Summary/Abstract: Warmia and Masuria are one of the most diversified culture and ethnical regionsin the 20th century – to 1945 they found in the German state, and after the II world warwithin the limits of the polish state. The author presents ethnic relations on the religionbackground in the first half of the 20th century. There was the half-century particularlyimportant for the ethnic relations in East Prussia. On the relations have impactedimportant historical events. To understand where the melting pot in the areas came fromand how looked like the ethnic relations on the religion background before and after theII world war, first of all the author showed a brief history this areas and brought closerat that time existing the social relations. Besides he explained what is differencebetween Masurians and Warmiaks, what is the Protestantism Masurians andCatholicism Warmiaks and how looked like the polish movement in Warmia andMasuria at the turn of 19th and 20th century.The author especially focused on presentation this ethnic relations and relationsevangelical church and catholic church on the ethnic background in East Prussia beforeII world war and in the period after war.

  • Issue Year: 14/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 111-130
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish