Poland Was Not Allowed to Exist
There are nations that survive through power, through armies, through victory and conquest, and then there are nations that survive because ordinary people refuse to stop being themselves when history … Continue reading
Polish victims of war
Poland does not perform victimhood well, and in many ways it refuses to perform it at all. This is often misread from the outside as indifference, defensiveness, or even denial, … Continue reading
The Inheritance of Silence: Poland, War, and the Burden of Misunderstood Memory
The Polish experience in the Second World War cannot be understood merely through statistics of occupation, casualties, or shifting borders. It must be understood as a total rupture of family … Continue reading
The Blueprint of Destruction: Zamość and the Eastern Plan
Operation Zamość was one of the most brutal and least known German actions of the war, a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to erase an entire Polish region and … Continue reading
German propaganda during the Second World War
German propaganda during the Second World War leaned heavily on racial ideology and worked relentlessly to portray Poles as Untermenschen, or sub-humans. In 1940, Hans Frank, the Governor-General of occupied … Continue reading
The Soviet occupation of Poland
The Soviet occupation of Poland, first under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939, and again during the Red Army’s westward advance in 1944, has long been viewed through a propagandist lens … Continue reading
To Be Forgotten is To Die Twice
There is a peculiar kind of violence that does not come with explosions or gunfire, but with silence, the kind that spreads over generations like a thin layer of dust, … Continue reading
Poland, the Nation that refused to die
Edward Reid – Polish History In a world increasingly uncertain, fragmented, and overwhelmed by shallow distractions, there is something quietly extraordinary about Poland, something the world still needs. It is … Continue reading
Painting lost during WWII finds its way back to Poland’s Wawel Castle A pastel painting by Polish artist Leon Wyczółkowski that disappeared during World War II has been retrieved by … Continue reading
Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For Russification in Partitioned Poland, see Russification of Poles during the Partitions. For Germanisation in Poland during World War II, see Germanisation in Poland (1939–1945). After partitioning Poland at the end of the 18th … Continue reading
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