Polská syntéza stoletých dějin sudetských Němců
A Polish synthesis of the hundred-year history of the Sudeten Germans

Summary/Abstract: Majewski, Piotr M.: Sudetští Němci 1848–1948: Dějiny jednoho nacionalismu. Translated from Polish by Markéta Páralová; translation of German sources by Pavel Mašarák. Brno: Conditio humana in cooperation with the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, 2014, 537 pp., ISBN 978-80-905323-2-8. The reviewer presents Piotr Maciej Majewski, a Polish historian and museologist, as one of the leading foreign experts on the Czechoslovak history of the first half of the 20th century and also a defender of independent historical studies against political pressures in today’s Poland. The publication titled "The Sudeten Germans1848–1948: The history of a nationalist movement", which is a translation of the Polish edition "“Niemcy sudeccy” 1848–1948: Historia pewnego nacjonalizmu" (Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2007), presents a good, factrich, and gripping synthesis of the history of Sudeten, or Bohemian, Germans since the revolutionary year 1848 until their expulsion from Czechoslovakia and the establishment of the Communist regime a hundred years later. Majewski’s views are, to a considerable degree, consistent with the perspective and value accents of a majority of the approach of the community of Czech historians to topics related to the Sudeten Germans.

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