{"product_id":"the-german-minority-in-interwar-poland-hardback-9781107008304","title":"The German Minority in Interwar Poland (Hardback) 9781107008304","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe German Minority in Interwar Poland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWinson Chu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107008304, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 June 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 3 b\/w illus.  3 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… [an] excellent book … Chu's focus on the regional distinctiveness of Germans in Poland allows us to appreciate the ironies of their nationalization and the combination of völkisch wholeness with regional divisiveness.' Shelley Baranowski, Holocaust and Genocide Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg and German - were forced to live together in one new state. After the First World War, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for those who had once lived in the German Empire. Rather than becoming more cohesive over time, Poland's ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from the German state exacerbated these differences, while National Socialism created new hierarchies and unleashed bitter intra-ethnic conflict among German minority leaders. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed 'Germans' as a single homogeneous group of people. His revealing study shows that nationalist agitation could divide as well as unite an embattled ethnicity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFigures\u003cbr\u003e Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on translations, place names, and concepts\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and acronyms\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Phantom Germans: Weimar revisionism and Poland (1918–33)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Residual citizens: German minority politics in Western Poland (1918–33)\u003cbr\u003e 3. On the margins of the minority: Germans in ?ód? (1900–33)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Negotiating Volksgemeinschaft: national socialism and regionalization (1933–7)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Revenge of the periphery: German empowerment in central Poland (1933–9)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Lodzers into Germans? (1939–2000)\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913150423320,"sku":"9781107008304","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107008304i_05c088e2-e9b2-4ea2-a62c-d58bfe57cbe6.jpg?v=1691360908","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-german-minority-in-interwar-poland-hardback-9781107008304","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}