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In the article I try to analyze some problems of institutionalization of additional place names in minority languages in Poland. Regulations concerning these issues didn’t exist in the Polish law until the adoption of the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities and Regional Language in 2005. The implementation of bilingual regulations had been the real and difficult phenomenon for the local administration and the public opinion but 1211 minority place names were established to the end of 2015. It wasn’t a simple adaptation of legal regulations but there was always connected with the history of presence of minority group and its language and culture in the region as well as the memory of Polish – minority relations. Therefore, the “bilingual signs” were often described in terms of “ethnic flagging”, favoring the minority group and defined through the prism of the fulfillment of its “ethnic” expectations. It has also meant the changing perception of the status of these communities in local community, shifting from “marginal” to the status of the “local co-host”.
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Obozy dla ludności niemieckiej tworzone w Polsce po II wojnie światowej pełniły wiele funkcji, ale w większości odpowiadały one podstawowym celom ówczesnej polskiej polityki wobec tej ludności. Miały one pomóc w usunięciu Niemców z Polski, a do tego czasu wykorzystać ich jako tanią siłę roboczą oraz przyspieszyć weryfikację i rehabilitację ludności rodzimej. Proces powstawania tych obozów charakteryzował się dużą dowolnością i chaosem organizacyjnym. W związku z tym istniała duża różnorodność w podległości obozów oraz bałagan organizacyjny, co sprzyjało licznym nadużyciom i łamaniu prawa. Obozy te często charakteryzowały się złymi warunkami bytowymi, ciężką pracą oraz surowymi regulaminami, wzorowanymi na regulaminach obozów hitlerowskich, co często przekładało się na dużą śmiertelność, której skalę trudno jest jednak dzisiaj ustalić.
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German population camps formed in Poland after the Second World War served many functions, yet they mainly reflected the attitude and goals Polish authorities had towards this community. They were aimed at helping to remove Germans from Poland, using them, in the meantime, as cheap workforce; and speeding up the verification and rehabilitation of native population. Organizational chaos and latitude were the major features accompanying their creation. This led to considerable diversity in the camps’ dependence, and organizational mess, which created conditions for numerous abuses and law violations. The camps were often characterized by poor living conditions, hard work and severe regulations, modeled after Nazi camps, which resulted in high mortality (the scale of which is difficult to assess today).
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With the end of the 1940s it occurred that relocations had not entirely solved the problem of the presence of German population in Poland since it had become essential that keeping c. two hun-dred thousand Germans was necessary for Polish economy. As a result, the question of solving several issues relating to their functioning in Poland appeared. However, it was the change in the international situation which had direct influence on the policy change towards this population − the creation of an allied German country (GDR) and the signing of the Treaty of Görlitz. Of importance were also soviet influences − adopting soviet ethnic policy patterns. Polish new policy’s main goal was to integrate German population with Polish society. During its realization the question of “class” was stressed and political indoctrination was carried out, with the aspect of nationality being deliberately omitted. In order to achieve the goal, attempts were made to enable German people to join labor unions, PZPR (Polish United Workers’ Party), ZMP (Union of Polish Youth) and other organizations. However, Germans felt these actions lacked emphasis on the ques-tion of their nationality, and were put off by a high degree of politicization of the issue. Another considerable problem was local authorities’ mistrust towards German population, as well as their reluctance to implement the guidelines of the policy of integration. While assessing this policy one needs to notice that it caused a considerable improvement of German population’s situation in Poland. Germans were given the opportunity to gain Polish citizenship. In order to keep the remaining Germans in Poland, authorities took action to make their living standards equal with those of Poles. `e appearance of German schooling, as well as cultural and publishing activities were permitted. However, these concessions did not manage to change the attitude of German population towards Polish authorities and the communist political system. Majority of Germans intended to leave Poland as soon as possible, regardless of any efforts on the part of the authorities. Hence, this policy was foredoomed to failure.
Facta Simonidis
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2013
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vol. 6
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issue 1
213-231
EN
German population camps formed in Poland after the Second World War served many functions, yet they mainly reflected the attitude and goals Polish authorities had towards this community. They were aimed at helping to remove Germans from Poland, using them, in the meantime, as cheap workforce; and speeding up the verification and rehabilitation of native population. Organizational chaos and latitude were the major features accompanying their creation. This led to considerable diversity in the camps’ dependence, and organizational mess, which created conditions for numerous abuses and law violations. The camps were often characterized by poor living conditions, hard work and severe regulations, modeled after Nazi camps, which resulted in high mortality (the scale of which is difficult to assess today).
PL
Obozy dla ludności niemieckiej tworzone w Polsce po II wojnie światowej pełniły wiele funkcji, ale w większości odpowiadały one podstawowym celom ówczesnej polskiej polityki wobec tej ludności. Miały one pomóc w usunięciu Niemców z Polski, a do tego czasu wykorzystać ich jako tanią siłę roboczą oraz przyspieszyć weryfikację i rehabilitację ludności rodzimej. Proces powstawania tych obozów charakteryzował się dużą dowolnością i chaosem organizacyjnym. W związku z tym istniała duża różnorodność w podległości obozów oraz bałagan organizacyjny, co sprzyjało licznym nadużyciom i łamaniu prawa. Obozy te często charakteryzowały się złymi warunkami bytowymi, ciężką pracą oraz surowymi regulaminami, wzorowanymi na regulaminach obozów hitlerowskich, co często przekładało się na dużą śmiertelność, której skalę trudno jest jednak dzisiaj ustalić.
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