Deconstructing the Myth of the “Wicked German” in Northern and Western Parts of Poland
Deconstructing the Myth of the “Wicked German” in Northern and Western Parts of Poland

Local Approaches to Cultural Heritage

Author(s): Izabela Skórzyńska, Anna Wachowiak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Myth;politics;Poland and Germany
Summary/Abstract: Our study seeks to describe and analyze the changes that occurred in the “symbolic repertoire” defining Polish attitudes to German heritage in Poland after 1989. It addresses the question of the Polish myth of the“wicked German” that haunted and still haunts the local communities of western and northern Polish territories (which under communism were called the “Regained Lands” or/and “Western Borderlands”), where Polish and German inhabitants coexisted before World War II.

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