Series:CEEOL DIGITS related to POLAND

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“ ]

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!

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

Author(s): L. Königk / Language(s): German

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.

L’Historiographie Polonaise du XIXme et du XXme Siècle

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

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

MYŚL I DZIAŁANIE w polityce międzynarodowej

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

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

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

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

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

Polonia irredenta?

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

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.

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

The Polish-German Problem

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

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.

Trois Destins tragiques: Słowacki, Krasiński, Norwid

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

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.