Before 1918, these anniversaries turned into large-scale patriotic manifestations which then became a weapon in the fight to preserve the national community.
Much more important than all titles and medals of the Polish athlete Maria Kwaśniewska, was a picture taken with Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the Olympic Games.
Where does the need for mergers in emigration come from? What problems do we have to contend with and what helps us to find ourselves and act together? How do social networks emerge in the real and vi...
In the spring of 1945, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine for the first time and were to occupy all of Westphalia during the following few weeks. At the same time, in the Sauerland region, members o...
Seit den 1970er Jahren setzte sich Jacek Kowalski, der damals in Poznań (Posen) und Halle (DDR) Germanistik studierte und später viele Abenteuer in der BRD erleben sollte, für die Unabhängigkeit Polen...
The 330-page "Memoirs" of the battle painter Wojciech/Adalbert von Kossak (1856-1942), published in Poland and subsequently translated into German, primarily depict his life until his hasty departure ...
"The concentration camps did not exist" - Zbigniew Muszyński heard this claim made by a German father and son at the party in Australian Perth. The son asked him "What did you do during the WWII?", Zb...
The theatrical and cultural scholar Andrzej Wirth, who died on 10th March 2019 in Berlin shortly before his 92nd birthday, was a professor in Stanford, New York, Oxford and Berlin, among other places....
Im damals polnischen Ostgalizien geboren, in das Dritte Reich verschleppt, im Nachkriegsdeutschland geblieben: Ferdinand Matuszek (1926-2014) lebte und arbeitete zwischen 1942 und 1945 als polnischer ...
Polish villages in Emsland? After the end of the Second World War, Polish displaced persons (DPs) formed Polish enclaves, helped by the Allied military government. This is how the German Neuvrees, tod...
Polnischer Ökonom und Politiker, Abgeordneter der Polnischen Verfassungsgebenden Nationalversammlung (1920–1922) und des Sejms (1920–1924), Wojewode von Pommern (1924–1926).