In the cemetery of the small town of Bruttig-Fankel on the Mosel river, there are seven stone grave crosses bearing dates of death from March to July 1944
In July 1941, the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler changed the process for imposing punishments, including the death sentence, on Polish forced labourers for alleged offences.
During the 1960s, she was the undisputed queen of beat music in Poland, and a hugely popular idol among Polish young people. At the end of the 1970s, Stanek continued her musical journey under the nam...
The Hinzert SS special camp/concentration camp, near Hermeskeil in the Hunsrück region (today in Rhineland-Palatinate) fulfilled various different functions in the National Socialist camp system.
The story of the Polish minority in the former German province of Eastern Prussia, and particularly in the Catholic region of Warmia, is also the story of specific buildings and landmarks.
She took her first steps as an actor in Poland, yet it was in Germany that she truly came into her own. In 2022, she appeared in the Netflix series “The Crown”.
These memories of Poles in Germany from the period of the Second World War but also from the post-war years and in the years before war broke out, which are still preserved in German households to thi...
To the west of Mainz is the Mombach Waldfriedhof. Only a few people know that the largest collective grave for victims of the Nazi era in the region can be found in this idyllic location away from the...
Das „Polenlager“ im rheinhessischen Eich, ein Strafgefangenenlager aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Rheinland-Pfalz, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Orten polnischer Geschichte.
The “PoKuSa” gallery for contemporary Polish art opened its doors in Albrechtstrasse 40 in Wiesbaden in 2001 and is one of the oldest prestigious galleries in the city.
Die Funktion der Polonia-Beauftragten der Landesregierungen ist 2011 auf Grund der „Gemeinsamen Erklärung des Runden Tisches... vom 17. Juni 1991“ entstanden.
Since winning the World Cup in 2014, Lukas Podolski, who hails from Gliwice in Poland, has risen up to be the undisputed star of German football and a media phenomenon.
The 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Union of Poles in Germany is a good opportunity to remind ourselves of its origins, its work and its current activities.
When the first independent trade union “Solidarność” was founded in the Soviet-influenced Eastern bloc, numerous citizens’ committees rose up in Western Europe, including in Germany.