Series:CEEOL COLLECTION related to POLAND

The Poland-Question

Die Polenfrage

Author(s): Hans Delbrück / Language(s): German

Text of the author's introduction: "Since years I have tried to work in the "Prussian Yearbooks" for a better understanding of the Polish question among the German people. Finally the real events have have set the ball rolling and wide circles of the public started to turn their attention to the complex problem. I considered it as appropriatze, therefore, to compile the thesis which, up to now, I have published in the "Political Correspondences" of the "Prussian Yearbooks" into a general view, to put them in the context of the current developments and to offer them to the public in form of a small booklet." Please note: The original booklet re-digitized here was printed in German FRAKTURA characters!

THOUGHT AND ACTION in International Policy

MYŚL I DZIAŁANIE w polityce międzynarodowej

Author(s): Zbigniew Brzeziński / Language(s): Polish

re-digitized copy of the Edition of ANEKS Publishers, London 1988

Justice for Poland. Missive to C. M. Arndt as Reply to a Leaflet »Poland-Hype and Poland-Enthusiasm«

Gerechtigkeit für Polen. Sendschreiben an C. M. Arndt als Entgegnung auf ein fliegendes Blatt »Polenlärm und Polenbegeisterung«

Author(s): Ludwik Königk / Language(s): German

Keywords: Ernst Moritz Arndt; German-Polish relations;

published 1848 in Leipzig by Verlags-Bureau. First pages give the text of the Leaflet, to which the author wrote this replika addressed to the German historian and writer Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860) // Copy of the original print in GERMAN FRAKTURA. To be read only by readers who are familiar with this FRAKTURA font.

The Polish Historiography of 19th and 20th Centuries

L’Historiographie Polonaise du XIXme et du XXme Siècle

Author(s): Bronisław Dembiński,Oskar Halecki,Marceli Handelsman / Language(s): French

Keywords: Polish historiography; Naruszewicz; Julien Niemcewicz; Joachim Lelewel; Charles Szajnocha;

Report on the 7th International Congress of Sciences of History, 1933 in Warsaw - published by the »Polish Society of History« in 1933

The Polish-German Problem

The Polish-German Problem

Author(s): Robert Machray / Language(s): English

Keywords: Drang nach Osten; NAZI-strategies regarding Central Europe;

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.

Report on the Activity of the Polish Committee for Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for the period from January 1931 to December 1932.

Sprawozdanie z Działalności Polskiego Komitetu Walki z Handlem Kobietami i Dziećmi za czas od 1/1 1931 do 31/xii 1932.

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: trafficking in Women; trafficking in Children;

Polonia irredenta?

Polonia irredenta?

Author(s): Fritz Rathenau / Language(s): German

Keywords: Poles living in Prussia; Polish minority in Prussia;

Only the Prussian constitution of 1848 made the Poles living in Prussia Prussian citizens; they had "no longer to be regarded as Prussian Poles, but as Polish Prussians". The legal situation that was created at that time has fundamentally not changed over the past decades. However, general legal understanding has progressed over time. In particular, the international treaties that ended the World War created the concept of "national minorities" and introduced it into practical politics. The "national minorities" of Prussia and, thus, of the German Reich include those German Reich or Prussian nationals who are willing to preserve and cultivate their own and unique Polish nationality in the foreign state association - according to descent, customs, customs and traditions and to continue to exist within it as a nationally united Polish community. In terms of constitutional law, the Polish minority in Prussia can only be described as “Polish Prussians” in the sense of Prussian nationals of Polish origin. Anyone who possesses Prussian or German nationality — possession of which is a conceptual prerequisite for someone being able to count themselves among the national minorities in Prussia or Germany — cannot at the same time be “Pole”, i.e. non-German; On the other hand, anyone who is Poles, i.e. foreigners, does not belong to the national minority and therefore cannot derive any rights from this characteristic. "Member of a minority" and "foreigner" are two mutually exclusive terms: Every member of the minority is also a citizen of the state in which he resides. A “Prussian Pole” could therefore not exist in itself: because a “Pole” living in Prussia cannot also be a “Prussian” as a foreigner! The antithesis: "Prussian Poles or Polish Prussians?" is therefore legally unfounded and untenable.

Danzig and some aspects of the German-Polish Problem

Dantzig et quelques aspects du Problème Germano-Polonais

Author(s): / Language(s): French

The question of Danzig and the Polish "corridor" is still very topical. Despite all that has been written on the subject by experts from the nations directly concerned and those who, belonging to distant countries, have been able to have a relative objectivity, no solution has put an end to the debates. The European Centre for the Carnegie Endowment has recognized the importance of the problem and on several occasions has requested the assistance of technicians and specialists in the field to deal with this subject. It seems interesting today to collect the conferences and the articles thus obtained. // [PUBLISHED in 1932 by the European Centre of the Carnegie Foundation, Department for International Relations and Education (Paris) as issue of the series „Publications for International Conciliation“ ]

Three Tragic Fates: Słowacki, Krasiński, Norwid

Trois Destins tragiques: Słowacki, Krasiński, Norwid

Author(s): Édouard Krakowski / Language(s): French

Keywords: Juljusz Słowacki; Sigismond Krasiński; Cypryan Kamil Norwid;

This work, devoted to three great Polish romantics, can help to shed light on certain aspects, whether more specifically French or more broadly European, of this romanticism which a recent centenarian has adorned with a momentary topicality, but which, by the literary revolution aroused, remains of eternal relevance. For each of the three poets studied in this volume, patriotism is, along with love, the main source of inspiration. All celebrated the martyred Poland, affirmed in prophets, its approaching resurrection.

Outlines of Polish History. A Course of Lectures delivered at King’s College, University of London

Outlines of Polish History. A Course of Lectures delivered at King’s College, University of London

Author(s): Roman Dyboski / Language(s): English

Keywords: History of Poland;

published as second edition in 1931 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London (first published in 1925). Second edition, has been thoroughly revised and enlarged.

The Polish Historiography of the Middle Ages

Die polnische Geschichtschreibung des Mittelalters

Author(s): Heinrich von Zeissberg / Language(s): German

Keywords: Polish Historiography;

The awarding society had left it up to the applicants to look at the manuscript material themselves and use new ones, either in a similar way to Palacký in his "Appraisal of the Bohemian Historians," or, as Wattenbach had done in "Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter", to deal with published and elaborated work with independent penetration of the material. The means at my disposal guided me on the second way, but in such a way that, where handwriting was available, this was also used. I felt I had to do this all the more because, as already indicated above, some sources that needed to be discussed have not yet been printed, and the position of some printed sources can only be understood through the manuscripts. The bibliographical evidence also had to be more complete here, where Potthast is not sufficient despite his merits, the presentation, since the work of earlier researchers only served as reliable support in a few cases, often held the middle between those two masters. The nature of both, however - the critical sharpness of the one, the presentation skills of the other - will always remain unmatched and it can be a comfort to those who follow from afar that this confession recently had to be made by a much more important side.

Reflections on the Polish Problem

Réflexions sur le Problème Polonais

Author(s): Jan Kucharzewski / Language(s): French

Keywords: History of Poland;

Written by the Polish Prime Minister (1917-1918) and pubolished in Switzerland / Lausanne in 1915. //The Great War caused a profound transformation in the internal and external relations of the great European states. From one day to the next, the internal wars of the parties died down, social discussions were postponed to a more propitious time. As internal affairs, which during long years of peace had formed the principal object of the general interest, were relegated to the background, the haughty indifference of great nations towards the interests of small peoples disappeared. There are no more insignificant peoples; every people deserves attention, every people is a precious friend or a dangerous enemy or at least can become one at any moment. (from introduction)

History of Political Ideas in Poland since its Partitions (1795-1914)

Geschichte der politischen Ideen in Polen seit dessen Teilungen (1795-1914)

Author(s): Wilhelm Feldman / Language(s): German

Keywords: Worldwar I;

The Russian-Polish Dilemma: the Franco-Russian Alliance and Poland; the two conceptions of Order and Freedom

Le Dilemme Russo-Polonais : l'Alliance Franco-Russe et la Pologne ; les deux conceptions de l'Ordre et de la Liberté

Author(s): Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski / Language(s): French

The present study on the “two conceptions of order and freedom” is based on a series of lectures given at the École des Hautes-Études sociales in December 1917, and at the École des Langues orientales during the next winter, in 1918. With my friend Bohdan Winiarski, professor of law at the University of Posen, who had arrived — or rather escaped — then from Petrograd, we wanted to talk to the French public about this old problem, Russia-Poland, which the events had just imposed themselves on universal attention with such dramatic violence. We thought it appropriate to attack some prejudices about Poland, commonly accepted in France: Polish anarchy, the lack of an organizing spirit, the inability to govern itself, the impossibility of creating a State, these, of course, are assertions all gratuitous, but which the propaganda of the co-partitioning States endeavored to spread with great skill and zeal. Worse still, French politics at the time also seemed not to completely disdain these pessimistic suggestions. (author’s introduction)