The Polish-German Problem
The Polish-German Problem

Author(s): Robert Machray
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Drang nach Osten; NAZI-strategies regarding Central Europe;
Summary/Abstract: Poland’s Western Provinces are from south to north Polish Silesia, Poznania, and Pomorze; certain areas outside the three provinces have been incorporated, along with them, in the area Germany has seized. Further particulars are given on p. 20 in the earlier part of this essay, and the maps should be consulted. From the start it is important to remember that the three provinces which Hitler has incorporated in his Third Reich are, as stated in the essay, “the very cradle of the Polish race and of the Polish State, the moat and rampart of the whole Slavonic world against the perpetual Tush to the East’— Drang nach Osten—of the German hordes, and the part of Poland with the most West-European character politically, socially, culturally, and economically.” The province called Pomorze ( = sea province) has of recent years had great attention drawn to it in Great Britain and the United States from the fact that Gdynia, Poland’s self-created “wonder-port,” and potentially one of the greatest ports of the world, was (and is, though the Germans now call it Gotenhafen) situated on its small sea front. Nearby is Danzig, a name of romantic interest to the British people since the Middle Ages. Completely Germanized, it is no longer the great port it was two or three years ago when its vital interests were Polish.

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