In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia
was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination
in European history, the 1921 Plebiscite. This asked the
inhabitants of Europe s second largest industrial region the
deceptively straightforward question of whether they preferred to
be Germans or Poles, but spectacularly failed to clarify their
national identity, demonstrating instead the strength of
transnational, regionalist and sub-national allegiances, and of
allegiances other than nationality, such as religion. As such Upper
Silesia, which was partioned and re-partitioned between 1922 and
1945, and subjected to Czechization, Germanization, Polonization,
forced emigration, expulsion and extermination, illustrates the
limits of nation-building projects and nation-building narratives
imposed from outside. This book explores a range of topics related
to nationality issues in Upper Silesia, putting forward the results
of extensive new research. It highlights the flaws at the heart of
attempts to shape Europe as homogenously national politics and
compares the fate of Upper Silesia with the many other European
regions where similar problems occurred."
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