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, Poland s ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from...

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, Poland s ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from...