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Palimpsest might be used for naming both the land (Warmia and Masuria) and the time period (after the Second World War). It was then that the land was once again “redesigned” with new symbols, names, new architecture with no sign of previous Prussian details and new traditions, connected strongly only to Polish history. After the Germans fled or were deported, new habitants of the region were trying to adapt places of the alien culture to their needs: evangelic churches were transformed into catholic ones, German monuments were destroyed, road signs in German were replaced with ones in Polish, Warmia and Masuria natives were harassed for speaking German language. This article is about destructions of war, government issued orders to de-Germanize the land, quarrels over city designs, adapting monuments to social needs and making use of German palaces and castles.
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Palimpsest to przenośnia adekwatna zarówno do przestrzeni, tj. Warmii i Mazur, jak i do okresu – po drugiej wojnie światowej. Wtedy nastąpiło ponowne „zapisywanie” tego terytorium nowymi znakami, symbolami, nazwami, nową architekturą, pozbawioną elementów pruskich, nowymi tradycjami odwołującymi się wyłącznie do polskich fragmentów historii. Po ucieczce, a następnie wysiedleniu Niemców, nowi osadnicy próbowali oswoić obce im kulturowo przestrzenie: zajmowali ewangelickie świątynie, przeznaczając je na miejsca kultu katolickiego, burzyli niemieckie pomniki, zmieniali drogowskazy z niemieckimi nazwami, szykanowali mówiących po niemiecku Warmiaków i Mazurów. W artykule zostanie poruszona kwestia zniszczeń wojennych, rządowych nakazów likwidacji pozostałości niemieckich, sporów o układ architektoniczny miast, adaptowania zabytków na budynki dostosowane do potrzeb społecznych, oswajania zabytków kościelnych, zagospodarowywania poniemieckich pałaców i dworów.
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This text shows changes in the way oral history has been perceived in the last 10 years in Poland, what projects are being conducted at the moment and where research on this subject is going. Contemporary research in oral history has taken a few directions. First, this method is treated as a source prompted by historians and used in by them in research activity. Second, an interest taken in this method is manifested in methodological and historiographic reflection. The third group is research on archiving audio-visual documents. Another area of interest for oral history is widely understood education and popularization of this method.  In Poland there are a few serious institutions/centrers that focus their research and work methods on oral form of information, such as Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (National Digital Archive) and Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej (Center for Civic Education). Widely available are internet sources such as „Uczyć się z historii” (“To Learn from History”) and „Świadkowie Historii” (“Witnesses to History”), which gather oral evidence from people all over Poland. The article discusses also activities of the KARTA Center from Wrocław, “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” (Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre) Center and Studio Historii Mówionej (Oral History Center) from Lublin. The Memory and Future Institute from Wrocław is a thriving institution as well. An analysis has also been made of initiatives taken by circles in Olsztyn, Łódź, and at the Auschwitz-Birke-nau Museum. In 2009 the first in Poland Oral History Society was founded (Towarzystwo Historii Mówionej). This was possible thanks to institutions that are growing and becoming more and more active, and also because of academics who take interest in this kind of research. Every year the Society organizes nationwide conferences. Also other academic centers and societies organize conferences and meetings devoted to the culture of memory and oral history. 
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This text shows changes in the way oral history has been perceived in the last 10 years in Poland, what projects are being conducted at the moment and where research on this subject is going. Contemporary research in oral history has taken a few directions. First, this method is treated as a source prompted by historians and used in by them in research activity. Second, an interest taken in this method is manifested in methodological and historiographic reflection. The third group is research on archiving audio-visual documents. Another area of interest for oral history is widely understood education and popularization of this method.  In Poland there are a few serious institutions/centrers that focus their research and work methods on oral form of information, such as Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (National Digital Archive) and Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej (Center for Civic Education). Widely available are internet sources such as „Uczyć się z historii” (“To Learn from History”) and „Świadkowie Historii” (“Witnesses to History”), which gather oral evidence from people all over Poland. The article discusses also activities of the KARTA Center from Wrocław, “Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN” (Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre) Center and Studio Historii Mówionej (Oral History Center) from Lublin. The Memory and Future Institute from Wrocław is a thriving institution as well. An analysis has also been made of initiatives taken by circles in Olsztyn, Łódź, and at the Auschwitz-Birke-nau Museum. In 2009 the first in Poland Oral History Society was founded (Towarzystwo Historii Mówionej). This was possible thanks to institutions that are growing and becoming more and more active, and also because of academics who take interest in this kind of research. Every year the Society organizes nationwide conferences. Also other academic centers and societies organize conferences and meetings devoted to the culture of memory and oral history.
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Otokar Rudke was a forest district manager who was living and acting on the verge between political, cultural and social area. He was born in the family of landowners and owners of industrial plants but after World War ii he renounced his origin and described himself as a son of a peasant (social borderland). During interwar period he worked in the forest district of Przysucha (Kielce region) and after World War II – in the forest district of Kudypy (Warmia region). His ancestors came from the Finnish family, whereas he considered himself as a Pole and he was urged to sign Volkslist (German People’s List) during German occupation. He refused to do it however he had to work in Warmia region, among many people of the native population (cultural borderland). In his youth acted in PPS (Polish Socialist Party), after World War II he was a member of PZPR (Polish United Workers Party). However, he was quickly expelled from the Party and was imprisoned by communist authorities and forced to cooperate with SB – Security Service (political borderland).
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Otokar Rudke to nadleśniczy żyjący i działający w obszarze pogranicza zarówno politycznego, kulturowego, jak i społecznego. Urodzony w rodzinie właścicieli ziemskich i przemysłowych, po drugiej wojnie światowej wyrzekł się swojego pochodzenia i określał się synem chłopa (pogranicze społeczne). W okresie przedwojennym pracował w Nadleśnictwie Przysucha (okręg kielecki), a po wojnie w Nadleśnictwie Kudypy (Warmia). Jego przodkowie pochodzili z rodziny fińskiej, on sam uważał się za Polaka, ale w czasie okupacji był namawiany do podpisania Volkslisty jako Niemiec. Nigdy się na to nie zgodził, jednak musiał pracować na Warmii, gdzie mieszkało dużo rodowitej ludności (pogranicze kulturowe). W młodości działał w PPS, po wojnie w PZPR. Szybko jednak został wyrzucony z partii, a przez władze komunistyczne więziony i zmuszany do współpracy z SB (pogranicze polityczne).
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The article discusses the natural and environmental relationships between people and beavers in the former Prussia (present Warmia and Masuria) from the earliest periods to the present day. It characterises the natural habitat of the beaver which belongs to the largest rodents of Eurasia. Otokar Rudke – the forest district manager from Kudypy near Olsztyn – played a very important role in the development and management of the beaver reserve on the Pasłęka river after the World War II . The documents handed over by his heirs as well as those found in the archives of the Directorate of State Forests and the Institute of National Remembrance, allowed to present this ouststanding personality’s biography and his role in the protection of beavers. The end of the article points out the current number of beavers in Warmia and Masuria region and damages resulting from their existence. This text can be used for comparative studies in other Polish regions and Europe.
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Artykuł omawia wzajemne oddziaływania przyrodnicze i środowiskowe ludzi i bobrów na terenie ziem pruskich (Warmii i Mazur) od czasów najdawniejszych po współczesność. Charakteryzuje środowisko bytowania bobra, który należy do grupy największych gryzoni Eurazji. Bardzo ważną rolę w tworzeniu i zarządzaniu rezerwatem bobrowym na rzece Pasłęce po II wojnie światowej odegrał nadleśniczy z podolsztyńskich Kudyp – Otokar Rudke. Dokumenty przekazane przez jego spadkobierców, a także znalezione w Archiwum Dyrekcji Lasów Państwowych oraz Instytucie Pamięci Narodowej, pozwoliły na zaprezentowanie biografii tej nietuzinkowej postaci i jej roli w ochronie bobrów. Zakończenie artykułu wskazuje na obecny stan liczebny bobrów w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim i szkody wynikające z ich bytowania. Tekst ten może być wykorzystany do badań komparatystycznych w innych regionach Polski i Europy.
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The article deals with an international research project concerning the image of the Prussian lands over the centuries as presented in school course books in four countries – Poland, Germany, Russia and Lithuania. The first part includes the research on the condition of regional historical consciousness Warmia (Ermeland) and Masuria (Eastern Prussia) done by both Polish and German researchers. As a result, it became obvious that school course books designed for regional education, which would educate about the Prussian lands and shape a sense of community of many cultures, should be prepared. Thanks to scientific cooperation between the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the German Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, it was possible to apply together for financial resources to carry out common research projects. The project was joined by: historians from the University of Warmia and Mazury, the Institute of History and International Relations in Olsztyn, and the sta. of Georg-Eckert Institute in Braunschweig. The aim of the project is a systematic and multifaceted comparison of the regional construction of identity in school course books in relation to the area of “Pruzzenland”. The common historical approach to the past of the four nations: Germany, Poland, Russia and Lithuania has not been studied yet. The analysis of course books takes place in five central themes and selected concrete time points: 1) “the Prussians”, 2) “National myths”, 3) “The experience of migration”, 4) “Personages”, 5)” The scenery”. The themes are discussed within the scope of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century: 1) the inter-war period, 2) After WWII (1945–1989), 3) After the collapse of communism 1989/91, 4) The present time (until 2009). A permanent result of the project will be the study of the analysis of course books in the form of a scientific monograph. Secondly, selected teaching materials such as maps, diagrams, illustrations, source texts concerning the Prussian lands and selected subjects will be published. The product will be presented on-line, making it available for use to Germany, Poland, Russia and Lithuania. Finally, an international conference will be organized, where a monographic study in German and Polish will be presented. The internet product will be demonstrated there as well. The so-called ‘soft’ effect of the project, which will be hard to measure, will be the introduction of a supranational, transborder approach to the complicated history of these regions in Europe, where the political situation frequently changed, and people fail to have a stable historical identity. The project will allow inhabitants of the regions, teachers, students, and local authorities to foster communication within the nations and ethnic groups, and to develop an effective transregional cooperation.
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