The German Minority in Interwar Poland [Paperback]

Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.The 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 nationalists and the German state made regional distinctions that hindered the formation of a single minority organization. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed Germans as a homogeneous, single group of people.The 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 nationalists and the German state made regional distinctions that hindered the formation of a single minority organization. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed Germans as a homogeneous, single group of people.The 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, Polands 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 celCØ