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Belonging to the Nation - Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 (Hardcover)
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Belonging to the Nation - Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939-1951 (Hardcover)
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When the Nazis annexed western Poland in 1939, they quickly set
about identifying Polish citizens of German origin and granting
them the privileged legal status of ethnic Germans of the Reich.
Following Germany's defeat in World War II, Soviet-dominated Poland
incorporated eastern Germany and proceeded to do just the opposite:
searching out Germans of Polish origin and offering them Polish
citizenship. Underscoring the processes of inclusion and exclusion
that mold national communities, Belonging to the Nation examines
the efforts of Nazi Germany and postwar Poland to nationalize
inhabitants of the contested Polish-German borderlands. Histories
of the experience of national minorities in the twentieth century
often concentrate on the grim logic of ethnic cleansing. John
Kulczycki approaches his topic from a different angle, focusing on
how governments decide which minorities to include, not expel. The
policies Germany and Poland pursued from 1939 to 1951 bear striking
similarities. Both Nazis and Communist Poles regarded national
identity as biologically determined-and both found this principle
difficult to enforce. Practical impediments to proving a person's
ethnic descent meant that officials sometimes resorted to telltale
cultural behaviors in making assessments of nationality. Although
the goal was to create an ethnically homogeneous nation, Germany
and Poland allowed pockets of minorities to remain, usually to
exploit their labor. Kulczycki illustrates the complexity of the
process behind national self-determination, the obstacles it
confronts in practice, and the resulting injustices.
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