„Polenfresser“ contra „Reichsfeinde“. Kaiser Wilhelm II. und die Polen 1888-1918. Rezension einer Monografie von Piotr Szlanta

• Authors: Jens Boysen

Title variants

EN

Review of Piotr Szlanta’s book „Polakożerca“ kontra „wrogowie Rzeszy“. Cesarz Wilhelm II i Polacy 1888-1918

Abstracts

EN

The reviewed book was written basing on Piotr Szlanta’s habilitation thesis defended in 2015 at the University of Warsaw. It deals mainly with “the Polish question”, by describing the relations between Emperor Wilhelm II and his Polish subjects. The title deals with stereotypes of the Emperor and his Polish subjects, and its evolution during subsequent decades. Piotr Szlanta managed to grasp the ambiguous relation between these two sides. On the one hand, the Emperor sought for acceptance and recognition from the side of “his Poles”, on the other hand, he underlined on almost every occasion the historical role of Germans in civilising east territories and its inhabitants. The last attempt of gaining support of Poles towards his politics and himself was an attempt of creating “The Kingdom of Poland” in autumn 1916. Piotr Szlanta’s book, basing on a broad research in various archives managed to highlight this complicated chapter of Polish-German relations.

Keywords

EN

Wilhelm II; stereotypes; historical remembrance; Polish-German relations; the German Empire

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 171-178

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Jens Boysen

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/historie.2020.133256

Biblioteka Nauki

56076746